Awards & Winners

Ralph McGill

Date of Birth 05-February-1898
Place of Birth Hamilton County
(Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN-GA Metropolitan Statistical Area)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Ralph Emerson McGill
Profession Journalist, Editor
Ralph Emerson McGill, was an American journalist, best known as an anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959.

Awards by Ralph McGill

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ralph McGill.

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, and Religion (Nonfiction) The South and the Southerner

1959


Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
(For his distinguished editorial writing during 1958 as exemplified in his editorial 'A Church, A School....' and for his long, courageous and effective editorial leadership.)