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Theodore H. White

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Theodore H. White · Arts & Literature

What

Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

When

1915, Boston, Massachusetts, United States — 1986, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Theodore H. White is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

How & why

White was an American journalist and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for The Making of the President 1960, creating a new genre of behind-the-scenes campaign chronicle that reshaped American political reporting. He had earlier covered China and the Second World War. He was born into a Jewish family in Boston and studied Chinese history at Harvard.

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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