Richard Kluger

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Richard Kluger (born 1934) is an American author who has won a Pulitzer Prize. He focuses his writing chiefly on society, politics and history. He has been a journalist and book publisher.

Early life and family

Born in

Daily Princetonian.[citation needed
]

Kluger has been greatly assisted in his nonfiction work by the research skills of his wife, the former

Douglass College
and later graduated from Columbia University, where she majored in art history. Her academic background and a remarkable gift for the fiber arts stood her in good stead when she authored two books of her own, A Needlepoint Gallery of Patterns from the Past (Knopf) and Victorian Designs for Needlepoint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). Phyllis is also the creator of satiric and documentary quilts with titles like "Cereal Killer Strikes Again" and "The Real George Washington, Warts and All" and dealing with, among other subjects, the rise and fall of the British empire, American homes, and the fall of Soviet communism. Her six-foot-square quilt "The Princeton-Yale Game Increases in Intensity" is on permanent display at Princeton University's Frist Student Center.

The Klugers have two sons, Matthew Kluger, a disbarred attorney, and Ted, a builder-contractor, and six grandsons.

Writing career

Kluger began his career as a journalist, writing for various small newspapers. He later wrote for the

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.[2]

In 2011, Kluger published The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America.[3]

In 2006, Kluger published Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea,[4] an extended investigation of how the current territory of the United States was amassed. The book received mixed reviews, alternately complimenting its detailed insights into the under-reported history of this issue, and criticizing the author's alleged biases, errors, inferences and presumptions, and allegedly verbose writing style.[5][6]

Politics

Kluger's writing has been described as liberal, and/or emphasizing racial-injustice perspectives.[5]

In 1968, he signed the "

Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[7]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Simple Justice: A History of Brown v. Board of Education & Black America's Struggle for Equality (1976)
  • The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune (1986)
  • Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (1996), 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
  • Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea (2007)
  • The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America (2011)
  • Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press (2016)

Fiction

  • When the Bough Breaks (1964)
  • National Anthem (1969)
  • Members of the Tribe (1978)
  • Star Witness (1979)
  • Un-American Activities (1982)
  • The Sheriff of Nottingham (1992), co-authored with Phyllis Kluger
  • Good Goods (1982)
  • Royal Poinciana (1987) (under pseudonym Thea Coy Douglass)
  • Beethoven's Tenth (2018)
  • Hamlet's Children (2023)

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  2. ^ The 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winners, General Nonfiction (biography)
  3. ISBN 0307268896
  4. ISBN 0375413413
  5. ^
    The History News Network
  6. New York Times
    , August 12, 2007
  7. ^ "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 New York Post

Sources

External links

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