Pitting a political unknown and future Pulitzer Prize finalist against an unelected president in the aftermath of Watergate, the 1976 campaign included the first modern presidential debates.
Tributes to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry have been pouring in. Read a selection of them, and the Pulitzer jury report in support of his prize-winning work, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror."
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Douglas Martin
March 15, 2002
Thomas Winship, who as editor of The Boston Globe for two decades propelled the newspaper to regional leadership and national stature, in part through tireless coverage of the court-ordered school busing that split the city in the 1970's, died yesterday in Boston. He was 81 and lived in Lincoln, Mass.
He had been under care for lymphoma at Massachusetts General Hospital, said his son Laurence.
