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Born February 5, 1898 • Tennessee
Died February 3, 1969 (aged 70) • Atlanta • Georgia
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
William Allen White
William Allen White
American journalist
Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
Joseph Medill
American publisher
Vermont Royster
American journalist
Carlos P. Romulo
Filipino diplomat
Alicia Patterson
American journalist and publisher
John S. Knight.
John S. Knight
American journalist and publisher
Moore, Ely
Ely Moore
American journalist and politician
Bennett Cerf, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Bennett Cerf
American publisher and editor
David Remnick
David Remnick
American journalist
E.B. White
American writer
Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi
American journalist and author
James Reston
American writer and editor
Herbert Bayard Swope
American journalist
William Thomas Stead, c. 1890.
William Thomas Stead
British journalist
Marchamont Needham
English journalist
Henry Muddiman
English journalist
Novikov, Nikolay Ivanovich
Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov
Russian writer
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Hearst, William Randolph
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher
H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
American writer