Ward Morehouse III has had a great love for hotels and theater, and has been more or less associated with them since he was a child. Born in New York City (narrowly missing being born in The Waldorf Astoria), he began seeing plays at the tender age of six (while living at another New York hotel) with his father, noted drama critic Ward Morehouse, and mother, former Broadway actress Joan Marlowe. While a student at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, he joined a professional Shakespeare Company. His acting career blew up when he couldn't get another acting job and turned to newspaper work. He joined the staff of The Christian Science Monitor in 1973 and highlights of his 10 year tenure were some of the colorful and in-depth series he did on living with a tribe of Indians in the Amazon; New England rural poverty; Canadian Arctic oil and gas exploration, the national epidemic of child crime and even wild horses.

In the 1990s he became the chief Broadway columnist of the New York Post. His "Broadway After Dark" column then appeared in the New York Sun for two years and is now in the Tribune Company's am New York. He is the author of three books on hotels, including "Life at the Top: Inside New York's Grand Hotels," and a forthcoming theater book called "The Hudson Theatre: The Golden Age of Broadway and Live Television." He is the author of the off-Broadway success, "The Actors," which ran for nine months, and "If It Was Easy," (co-written with Stewart F. Lane) and wrote the book for the musical, "A Night at the Astor" (music by David Romeo).

Some advance praise for "Life at the Top" includes the following comments:

"There is no one more qualified to write about New York's grand hotels than Ward Morehouse III, having been reared in two of the grandest whose histories he would later write. An eminent theater columnist and feature reporter, Morehouse is able to bring the Big Apple's glamorous (or once glamorous) hostelries to life, mixing history with delicious gossip and amusing anecdotes that only an insider would be privy to. Luxury hotels provide a heightened sense of life and fun for the rich and famous as well as the ordinary guest, and Morehouse catches the excitement of the hotel as playground perfectly."
-- Frederick M. Winship, Critic-at-Large, United Press International

Ward Morehouse III's fabulous take on New York's greatest hotels reads like the legendary stories of Damon Runyon. He breathes new life into these wonderful old metropolitan inns and the colorful characters that inhabited them.''
-- Bill Hoffmann, New York Post

"Not since the great Ziegfeld has anyone assembled as glittering a cast as can be found in Ward Morehouse III's 'Life at the Top: Inside New York's Grand Hotels.' It reads like heaven's guest-book."
-- Alan Farnham, Senior Editor, Forbes Magazine

The New York Times SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW SECTION said this of Mr. Morehouse's book, "The Waldorf-Astoria: America's Gilded Dream."

"The grand cities of the world have their grand hotels, the bed-and-breakfasts for the mighty and moneyed. Ward Morehouse III explores one of New York City's grandest in 'The Waldorf-Astoria: Americašs Gilded Dream' ... Morehouse writes of pleasures and scandals, of the hard facts of running a hotel and of its romance. The hotel comes off well in the hands of its appreciative Boswell."