Anthony Lewis - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	27-March-1927
Place of Birth	The Bronx (United States of America, New York City, New York)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Joseph Anthony Lewis
Profession	Journalist, Author
Anthony Lewis was an American public intellectual and journalist, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a longtime New York Times columnist. He is credited with creating the field of legal journalism in the United States. Early in Lewis' career as a legal journalist, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter told an editor of the New York Times: "I can't believe what this young man achieved. There are not two justices of this court who have such a grasp of these cases." At his death, Nicholas B. Lemann, the dean of Columbia University School of Journalism, said: "At a liberal moment in American history, he was one of the defining liberal voices."

Awards by Anthony Lewis

Check all the awards nominated and won by Anthony Lewis.

1965

Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Honored for : Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court - and Changed the Law of the United States

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime	Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court - and Changed the Law of the United States

1963

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting	(For his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union.)

1955

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting	(For publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly responsible for clearing Abraham Chasanow, an employee of the U.S. Navy Department, and bringing about his restoration to duty with an acknowledgment by the Navy Department that it had committed a grave injustice in dismissing him as a security risk. Mr. Lewis received the full support of his newspaper in championing an American citizen, without adequate funds or resources for his defense, against an unjust act by a government department. This is in the best tradition of American journalism.)

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