Awards & Winners

William Raspberry

Date of Birth 12-October-1935
Place of Birth Okolona
(Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Bill Raspberry
Profession Journalist
William Raspberry was a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated American public affairs columnist. He was also the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. An African American, he frequently wrote on racial issues. In 1999, Raspberry received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. After earning a B.S. in history at the University of Indianapolis in 1958, he continued to work at the local weekly Indianapolis Recorder where he'd begun in 1956, rising to associate managing editor. He was drafted and served as a U.S. Army public information officer 1960-1962. The Washington Post hired him as a teletypist in 1962. Raspberry quickly rose in the ranks of the paper, becoming a columnist in 1966. Raspberry was first nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1982, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1994. Raspberry supported gay rights, writing at least one column condemning gay-bashing. He argued against certain torts and complaints from the disabled. Ragged Edge, a disabled-rights publication, published complaints from letters to the editor that the Post did not print.

Awards by William Raspberry

Check all the awards nominated and won by William Raspberry.

1994


Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
(For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.)

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary