Howard Weaver, Who Helped an Alaska Newspaper Win 3 Pulitzers, Dies at 73
The Anchorage Daily News was the smallest newspaper and the first in the state to earn the medal for public service in 1976. It then won two more.
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Ted Morgan, 91, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Writer Straddled Two Cultures
An esteemed journalist and author, he was born to a French count but later shed his aristocratic roots (and name) to became a U.S. citizen.
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David Del Tredici, Who Set ‘Alice’ to Music, Dies at 86
A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who liked to redefine himself, he was originally known as an experimentalist but was later identified with a lush style that came to be called the New Romanticism.
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David Mitchell, Weekly Editor Who Exposed a Corrupt Cult, Dies at 79
His tiny California newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its exposé of Synanon, a renowned drug rehabilitation program that had turned into a violent operation.