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Richard Kluger

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Richard Kluger · Arts & Literature

What

Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

When

1934, Paterson, New Jersey, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Richard Kluger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

How & why

Kluger is an American author and former book editor whose Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction; he also wrote Simple Justice, a history of Brown v. Board of Education. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, and raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side, he is listed among Jewish authors; his own writings do not dwell on a religious background.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

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Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction