Lenoir Chambers

Date of Birth	26-December-1891
Place of Birth	Charlotte (North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, United States of America, Area code 704, Area code 980)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Journalist, Editor, Writer, Biographer
Lenoir Chambers was a writer, biographer and newspaper editor. In 1960, as editor of The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for his series of editorials opposing school desegregation, especially in Virginia. He was elected to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame in 1991. Mr. Chambers authored Stonewall Jackson, a two-volume biography of the Civil War general, and Salt Water & Printer's Ink: Norfolk and Its Newspapers, a history of the newspaper industry in Norfolk. Stonewall Jackson was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1960. As a young man in World War I, he served in 52nd Infantry, Sixth Division, American Expeditionary Forces.

Awards by Lenoir Chambers

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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing	(For his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by 'The Year the Schools Closed,' published January 1, 1959, and 'The Year the Schools Opened,' published December 31, 1959.)