Awards & Winners

Leonard Pitts

Date of Birth 11-October-1957
Place of Birth California
(United States of America, Contiguous United States)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Leonard Pitts, Jr., Leonard Pitts Jr.
Profession Journalist, Commentator, Novelist
Leonard Pitts Jr. is an American commentator, journalist and novelist. He is a nationally-syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but within a few years he received his own column in which he dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture. He lives in Bowie, Maryland. He has won awards for his writing from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and was first nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, eventually claiming the honor in 2004. Pitts is a bestselling author. His first book, Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood was published in 2006. Pitts’s first novel, Before I Forget was released in March 2009, and earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The novel centers on a faded soul singer whose early-onset Alzheimer’s compels him to reconnect with his father and son. Pitts’s third book, Forward from This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008 was published in August 2009. It is a selection of Pitts’s columns from the Miami Herald. Pitts gained national recognition for his widely circulated column of September 12, 2001, "From here we'll go forward" in which he described the toughness of the American spirit in the face of the September 11 attacks.

Awards by Leonard Pitts

Check all the awards nominated and won by Leonard Pitts.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
The Miami Herald

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
The Miami Herald

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
The Miami Herald
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Before I Forget

2009


GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
(The Miami Herald)

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
The Miami Herald

2004


Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
(For his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues.)

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
For his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues.
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
The Miami Herald

2003


GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
(The Miami Herald)

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
The Miami Herald

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
For critical articles on popular music and culture.