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White, William Allen
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| Journalist and writer, born in Emporia, Kansas, USA. He left college to become business manager of the El Dorado Republican and, later, an editorial writer for the Kansas City Star. In 1895, borrowing $3000, he bought the small rural Emporia Gazette, which he published and edited for the rest of his life, besides contributing articles and short stories to many other publications. His 1896 editorial attacking populism was widely circulated by Republicans during that year's presidential campaign, and made him famous, and he came to be regarded as an independent-minded, common-sense spokesman for small-town America. A 1921 essay on his daughter's death in a riding accident became a classic, and an editorial (1922) supporting striking railroad workers brought him a Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote novels and biographies of Woodrow Wilson (1921) and Calvin Coolidge (1925, 1938). His autobiography, published in 1946, won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. |
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