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Born February 5, 1898 • Tennessee
Died February 3, 1969 (aged 70) • Atlanta • Georgia
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
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Alicia Patterson
American journalist and publisher
William Allen White
William Allen White
American journalist
Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
Joseph Medill
American publisher
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Vermont Royster
American journalist
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Carlos P. Romulo
Filipino diplomat
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
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E.B. White
American writer
Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi
American journalist and author
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James Reston
American writer and editor
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Herbert Bayard Swope
American journalist
William Thomas Stead, c. 1890.
William Thomas Stead
British journalist
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Marchamont Needham
English journalist
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Henry Muddiman
English journalist
Novikov, Nikolay Ivanovich
Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov
Russian writer
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
H. L. Mencken stands on a staircase at his Baltimore home, holding a cigar and leaning on the banister, with framed pictures covering the wall behind him.
H.L. Mencken
American writer
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Anna Louise Strong
American journalist and scholar