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Thomas J. Hylton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from Pottstown, Pennsylvania, is author of a book called Save Our Land, Save Our Towns and host of a public television documentary, Saving Pennsylvania.
Born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, in 1948, Hylton graduated from Kutztown University in 1970 and began working as a staff writer for The Mercury in Pottstown the following year. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for Mercury editorials about a bond issue for the preservation of farmland and open space. He resigned from the newspaper in 1994 to write his book and organize a non-profit dedicated to land use planning and community building in Pennsylvania.
References
1. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Editorial-Writing
2. Sunday Book Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 17, 1995. ISBN 978-0-615-24155-5
3. Television documentary review, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 17, 2000
4. http://www.saveourlandsaveourtowns.org
5. The book: http://www.amazon.com/Save-Our-Land-Towns-Pennsylvania/dp/1879441446
6. The video: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/save.html
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