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1979 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: J. Reston, W. McGill, J. Pulitzer, L. Hills, C. Kirkpatrick; back row, left to right: J. Cowles, O. Elliott, B. Bradlee, T. Winship, J Hughes, R. Leonard, E. Patterson, W. Phillips, H. Hays, R. Baker

Board Lander Sub Title
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., chair; Richard T. Baker, secretary

Richard T. Baker

Job title
secretary, The Pulitzer Pirze Board
First name
Richard T.
Last name
Baker
Years
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Richard Baker, 68, professor who hald Pulitzer post, dies

By Peter Kihss

September 4, 1981

Richard T. Baker, a professor of journalism at Columbia University for 34 years and retired secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board, died of cancer yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 68 years old.

Employer
administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes
Ordering weight
1
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