1962 Sebastiaan Kleu, a South African editor and economist, died of heart failure on October 11th. He was 85. Kleu began his career in journalism on … Read more
Dan Wakefield, NF ’64, edited and annotated the recently published “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters.” Here he reflects on first meeting Vonnegut during his Nieman year and the impact the resulting friendship had on his own writing career Read more
1946 Robert Manning, an influential editor of The Atlantic Monthly, died of lymphoma at a hospital in Boston on September 28th. He was 92. Read his obituary from … Read more
From left, prize winners Daniel J. Sharfstein, Jonathan M. Katz, and Sophia Rosenfeld. Jonathan Alter, right, is chairman of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Committee. Photo by Lisa Abitbol. J. Anthony Lukas’s “Common … Read more
1942 Thomas Sancton, a Southern journalist who wrote articles in the 1940s advocating for racial justice, died at a nursing home in New Orleans on April 6th. He was 97. Read more
When J. Andrew Curliss investigated a district attorney, she attacked his work and his paper. Photo by Lisa Abitbol. To say that the subject of reporter J. Andrew Curliss’s three-part series “Twisted Truth” … Read more
1950 Read his obituary in The Salt Lake Tribune.Hays Gorey, a longtime political correspondent for Time magazine, died at a health care facility in Salt Lake City on April 5th, 2011, … Read more
