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6 unusual facts about Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing


Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

1924: No writer named, Boston Herald, "for an editorial entitled 'Who Made Coolidge?'"

1954: Don Murray, Boston Herald, "for a series of editorials on the 'New Look' in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy"

1949: John H. Crider, Boston Herald, "for distinguished editorial writing during the year"

1997: Michael Gartner, Daily Tribune (Ames, Iowa), "for his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community"

--including Alex Storozynski, which page calls him PP-winning--> "for its effective campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theater from the financial mismanagement that threatened the landmark's survival"

1931: Charles S. Ryckman, Fremont Tribune (Fremont, Nebraska), "for the editorial entitled 'The Gentlemen from Nebraska'"


Ira B. Harkey Jr.

Harkey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1963 for his anti-segregation editorials during the civil rights crisis surrounding the admission of James Meredith, a black man, to the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi in 1962.

John W. Owens

John Whitefield Owens (November 2, 1884 – April 24, 1968) was the 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing for his editorials on the Baltimore Sun.


see also

Lexington, Mississippi

Hazel Brannon Smith, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1914–1994)