![]() ![]() In 1997, Pitts took first place for commentary in division four (newspapers with a circulation of over 300,000) in the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors' Ninth Annual Writing Awards competition. Pitts’ stubborn devotion to the art and craft of words has yielded many awards, chief among them the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.īut that was only the capstone of a career filled with prizes for literary excellence. Many more have come to know him through a series of critically acclaimed books, including his latest, a novel of race, faith and World War II called The Last Thing You Surrender. They read him every week in one of the most popular newspaper columns in the country. If you ask him what he does – what he is – he’ll tell you now what he would have told you then. ![]() ![]() has worked as a columnist, a college professor, a radio producer and a lecturer. In a career that now spans 43 years, Leonard Pitts, Jr. The world has changed a great deal since then. Kennedy was still in the White House, “Whites Only” signs were still on the walls, and the Beatles had not yet invaded America. ![]() We are talking about a very long time ago: when Leonard Pitts was five, John F. Indeed, he knew what he was put here to do. He says that from the tender age of five years old – little more than a “fetus with pretensions,” as he puts it – he knew what wanted to do. ![]()
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