John Strohmeyer
John Strohmeyer (June 26, 1924 – March 3, 2010) won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for his editorial writing on reducing racial tensions in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[1]
Early life and education
Strohmeyer was born in
Nieman Fellow at Harvard University during the 1952–1953 academic year while employed by The Providence Journal
.
Career
In 1956, Strohmeyer returned to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he served as editor of the Globe-Times until 1984.[1] He won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship[2] in 1984 to research and write about the decline of the American steel industry, a project that evolved into Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Struggle to Survive, published by Adler & Adler in 1986 and University of Pittsburgh Press in 1994.
In 1992,
Robert Atwood recruited Strohmeyer to teach journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage in a position endowed by Atwood. While there, Strohmeyer wrote Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska.[1] Strohmeyer also wrote Atwood's biography, which was never published due to a dispute which arose after Atwood's death between Strohmeyer and Atwood's daughter Elaine.[3]
Death
Strohmeyer died of heart failure on March 3, 2010, in Crystal River, Florida.[1]
References
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- ^ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
- ^ "Atwoods aim to halt biography". Associated Press. April 26, 1999. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
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