Jack Fuller
Jack Fuller | |
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| Born | Jack William Fuller October 12, 1946 |
| Died | June 21, 2016 (aged 69) |
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| Alma mater | Homewood-Flossmoor High School Medill School of Journalism Yale Law School |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1986) |
Jack William Fuller (October 12, 1946 – June 21, 2016)[1] was an American journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers and was the author of seven novels and two books on journalism.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Fuller was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He was a 1964 alumnus of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois, and a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and Yale Law School.
He began his journalism career as a copyboy for the Chicago Tribune. Later he became a police reporter, a war correspondent in Vietnam, and a Washington correspondent. He worked for City News Bureau of Chicago, The Chicago Daily News, Pacific Stars and Stripes, and The Washington Post, as well as the Tribune. Fuller won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1986 for his Tribune editorials on constitutional issues.[2][3]
During the administration of President Gerald Ford, Fuller served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi.
From 1989[4] to 1997 he was editor and then publisher of the Chicago Tribune. From 1997[5] to 2005 he served as president of the Tribune Publishing Company.
He served on the board of the University of Chicago and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Fuller died of cancer on June 21, 2016, at the age of 69.[6]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]- Convergence (Doubleday; University of Chicago Press, 1982) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Fragments (William Morrow; University of Chicago Press, 1984) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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- Our Fathers' Shadows (William Morrow, 1987) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Legends' End (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- News Values: Ideas for an Information Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Best of Jackson Payne: A Novel (Alfred Knopf; University of Chicago Press, 2000) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Abbeville (Unbridled Books, 2008) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). — Read an excerpt.
- Levi, Edward H. Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi Edited by Jack Fuller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Biography at the Inventory of the Jack Fuller Papers, 1951-2005 Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Editorial Writing". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Jack Fuller Papers at the Newberry Library
- Jack Fuller at Library of Congress, with 12 library catalog records
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- 1946 births
- 2016 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male journalists
- American male novelists
- American publishers (people)
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners
- Novelists from Chicago
- Medill School of Journalism alumni
- Yale Law School alumni
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- Homewood-Flossmoor High School alumni