In 'Words from a Bear,' the author, fans such as the actor Robert Redford and scholars dive deep into the impact of the first Native American Pulitzer winner in Fiction.
'House Made of Dawn' author retraces the sacred migration route of the Kiowa people in a father-daughter roadtrip broadcast by PBS — just in time for Native American Heritage Month.
New York Times obituary, July 23, 1996
Vermont Royster, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal who won two Pulitzer Prizes and helped to shape his newspaper into the country's leading business daily, died yesterday in a retirement community in Raleigh, N.C., The Journal said. He was 82.
The Journal said Mr. Royster had been in ill health for several years.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By R.W. Apple Jr.
December 7, 1995
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6— James Reston, former columnist, Washington correspondent and executive editor of The New York Times, died tonight at his home here. He was 86.
The cause was cancer, said his son Thomas.
Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Is Dead at 80; Publisher Was Avid Art Collector
by DENNIS HEVESI
Published: Thursday, May 27, 1993
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Edward Wyatt
December 19, 1997
Newbold Noyes Jr., who as editor of The Washington Evening Star from 1963 to 1975 was the last member of four generations of his family to lead the newspaper, died yesterday in Sorrento, Me. He was 79.
Mr. Noyes had heart problems, said a son, Newbold Noyes 3d.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
Correction Appended
Sylvan H. Meyer, a newspaper editor and outspoken white supporter of civil rights in Georgia in the 1950's and 60's, died on April 8 at his home in Dahlonega, Ga. He was 79.
Mr. Meyer, who was chairman of the Georgia advisory committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1958 to 1965, advocated peaceful integration, a stand that led to death threats against him and his family.
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.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Douglas Martin
August 8, 2000
John Hohenberg, who began his journalism career as a teenager by snatching an interview with the president of the United States and went on to become administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, died Sunday morning at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 94.
