Pulitzer, Joseph, Jr.

Pulitzer, Joseph, Jr.
▪ 1994

      U.S. publisher and art collector (b. May 13, 1913, St. Louis, Mo.—d. May 26, 1993, St. Louis), was the grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, of which he became editor and publisher in 1955 on the death of his father; maintaining the newspaper's tradition of crusading investigative reporting, he saw the Post-Dispatch garner five Pulitzer Prizes, including prizes for commentary and editorial cartooning, while serving as its editor (1955-86). Pulitzer, baptized Joseph Pulitzer III, adopted the designation junior after his father dropped that identifier when his own father died. Pulitzer graduated (1936) from Harvard University with a fine arts degree and became an art connoisseur; his collection ultimately included 86 works, some of them masterpieces by such artists as Matisse, Monet, Degas, Picasso, and Miró. After graduation Pulitzer joined the Post-Dispatch and worked in every department before becoming editor. As chairman of Pulitzer Publishing Co. and editor of its flagship publication, the Post-Dispatch, Pulitzer oversaw the operation of three newspapers, seven television stations, and two radio stations and, when the company went public in 1986, he resigned as editor to devote his full attention to the publishing firm. Pulitzer's grandfather established the Pulitzer Prizes in his will (annual awards began in 1917), and 70 years later Pulitzer was given a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize board for his "extraordinary services to American journalism and letters."

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