Leonard Pitts
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| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
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Leonard Garvey Pitts Jr. (born October 11, 1957)[1] is an American commentator, journalist, and novelist. He is a nationally syndicated columnist[2] and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but quickly received his own column, in which he has dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture from a progressive perspective.[3]
Raised in Los Angeles and educated at the University of Southern California, Pitts currently lives in Bowie, Maryland. He has won awards for his writing from the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and the National Association of Black Journalists, and he was first nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, eventually claiming the honor in 2004.[4]
Pitts' first book, Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood, was published in 2006. His first novel, Before I Forget, was released in March 2009, and earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The novel centers on a faded soul singer whose early-onset Alzheimer's disease compels him to reconnect with his father and son. Pitts's third book, Forward from This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994–2008, was published in August 2009. It is a selection of his columns from the Miami Herald.
Pitts gained national recognition for his widely circulated column of September 12, 2001, "We'll go forward from this moment", in which he described the toughness of the American spirit in the face of the September 11 attacks.[5]
Controversy
In June 2007, Pitts was the subject of a campaign of death threats and harassment, including neo-Nazi Bill White, who were angry at a column he wrote about the murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a white couple who were raped and murdered by five black assailants in Knoxville, Tennessee. In his column addressing the murders, Pitts wrote:
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I am [...] unkindly disposed toward the crackpots, incendiaries and flat-out racists who have chosen this tragedy upon which to take an obscene and ludicrous stand. I have four words for them and any other white Americans who feel themselves similarly victimized. Cry me a river.[6][7]
More death threats were made in April 2008 before his appearance at the University of Puget Sound.[8][9]
Books
Non-fiction
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood. Agate Bolden. 2006. ISBN 978-1-932841-17-6.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pitts, Leonard (2009). Forward from This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008. Agate. ISBN 978-1-932841-32-9.
Fiction
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Before I Forget. Chicago: Agate Bolden. 2009. ISBN 978-1-932841-43-5.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Freeman. Chicago: Agate Bolden. 2012. ISBN 978-1-932841-64-0.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grant Park. Chicago: Agate Bolden. 2015. ISBN 978-1-932841-91-6.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Last Thing You Surrender. Chicago: Agate Bolden. 2019. ISBN 978-1-572842-45-8.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Leonard Pitts". Who's Who Online.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Leonard Pitts Jr. columns". Tribune Content Agency. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pitts, Leonard Jr. (April 4, 2016). "Column: So, Leonard Pitts, are you liberal or are you conservative?". Miami Herald.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fish, Stanley (March 14, 2011). "So's Your Old Man". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pitts, Leonard Jr. (September 12, 2001). "We'll Go Forward From This Moment". Miami Herald.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pitts, Leonard Jr. (June 3, 2007). "The loonies of Knoxville". The Seattle Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hammack, Laurence (December 8, 2009). "Neo-Nazi White's trial begins today". The Roanoke Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Shameful death threats mar Pitts' visit here". The News Tribune. Tacoma, Washington. April 12, 2008. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gordon, Greg (June 20, 2007). "FBI probes death threats against Pulitzer Prize winner". McClatchy Newspapers.
External links
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- Official site
- Gregg Fields, "Herald columnist Pitts wins Pulitzer for commentary", Miami Herald, April 6, 2004
- Recent columns
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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