A special performance in New York of the Broadway production of Harper Lee's 1961 Fiction winner brought the classic to public school students from across the five boroughs. Mayor Bill de Blasio and film director Spike Lee introduced the production.
To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the New York Public Library reviewed its records to see which books had been checked out most in its history. Four Pulitzer winners were in the top 10.
SELTZER, LOUIS B. (19 Sept. 1897-2 Apr. 1980), long-time editor of the CLEVELAND PRESS, was born in Cleveland to Chas. Alden and Ella Albers Seltzer, and quit school to work as an office boy at the CLEVELAND LEADER at 12, quickly becoming reporter and writer of a Sunday column, but being fired 2 years later.
A year later, Seltzer was a police reporter for the Cleveland Press, in 1916 being named city editor, but, feeling his lack of experience, voluntarily resigned after 3 months, becoming political editor.
Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Is Dead at 80; Publisher Was Avid Art Collector
by DENNIS HEVESI
Published: Thursday, May 27, 1993
Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Pulitzer Publishing Company and owner of one of the world's finest collections of modern art, died yesterday at his home in the Central West End of St. Louis. He was 80.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Dennis Hevesi
August 23, 1991
Paul Miller, who presided over the Gannett Co. for 16 years as it grew into the nation's largest newspaper group, died Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 84 years old.
Kenneth MacDonald worked at the [Des Moines Register] for 50 years, starting at the age of 21. In 1926, MacDonald, a journalism graduate from the University of Iowa, came to see William Waymack, who was the managing editor. There was some mistrust of journalism graduates by the old guard, and Waymack didn’t give MacDonald much hope for a job, but he did mention that the news editor could use a copyreader. MacDonald walked out of Waymack’s office, into the newsroom and told the news editor he was ready to start.
