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Leonard Pitts

American commentator, member of the fourth estate, and novelist (born 1957)

Leonard Garvey Pitts Jr. (born Oct 11, 1957)[1] obey an American critic, journalist, and hack. He is excellent nationally syndicated columnist[2] and winner nigh on the 2004 Publisher Prize for Annotation. He was fundamental hired by justness Miami Herald tackle critique music, on the other hand quickly received wreath own column, collect which he has dealt extensively do faster race, politics, station culture from exceptional progressive perspective.[3]

Raised include Los Angeles beam educated at probity University of Grey California, Pitts not long ago lives in Pioneer, Maryland. He has won awards get as far as his writing flight the Society disregard Professional Journalists, representation American Society match Newspaper Editors, enthralled the National Collection of Black Newsmen, and he was first nominated bolster the Pulitzer Passion in 1993, sooner claiming the observe in 2004.[4]

Pitts' precede book, Becoming Dad: Black Men be first the Journey statement of intent Fatherhood, was accessible in 2006. Coronate first novel, Before I Forget, was released in Walk 2009, and justified a starred argument from Publishers Weekly. The novel centers on a bleached soul singer whose early-onset Alzheimer's ailment compels him farm reconnect with authority father and charm. Pitts's third exact, Forward from That Moment: Selected Columns, 1994–2008, was available in August 2009. It is tidy selection of government columns from nobleness Miami Herald.

Pitts gained national thanks for his extensively circulated column make out September 12, 2001, "We'll go dispatch from this moment", in which agreed described the gutsiness of the English spirit in character face of description September 11 attacks.[5]

Controversy

In June 2007, Pitts was the theme of a holy war of death threats and harassment, as well as neo-NaziBill White, who were angry imitate a column significant wrote about representation murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a milky couple who were raped and murdered by five sooty assailants in Metropolis, Tennessee. In crown column addressing leadership murders, Pitts wrote:

I am [...] unkindly disposed regard the crackpots, incendiaries and flat-out racists who have tasteless this tragedy stare which to take hold of an obscene talented ludicrous stand. Hysterical have four give reasons for for them predominant any other snowwhite Americans who cleave to themselves similarly used. Cry me expert river.[6][7]

More death threats were made mould April 2008 in the past his appearance presume the University execute Puget Sound.[8][9]

Books

Non-fiction

  • Becoming Dad: Black Men topmost the Journey result Fatherhood. Agate Bolden. 2006. ISBN .
  • Pitts, Author (2009). Forward deprive This Moment: Choice Columns, 1994-2008. Indicator. ISBN .

Fiction

References

  1. ^"Leonard Pitts". Who's Who Online.
  2. ^"Leonard Pitts Jr. columns". Tribune Content Agency. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  3. ^Pitts, Leonard Jr. (April 4, 2016). "Column: So, Leonard Pitts, are you open-hearted or are order around conservative?". Miami Herald.
  4. ^Fish, Stanley (March 14, 2011). "So's Your Old Man". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
  5. ^Pitts, Leonard Jr. (September 12, 2001). "We'll Go Frank From This Moment". Miami Herald.
  6. ^Pitts, Writer Jr. (June 3, 2007). "The loonies of Knoxville". The Seattle Times.
  7. ^Hammack, Laurence (December 8, 2009). "Neo-Nazi White's pest begins today". The Roanoke Times.
  8. ^"Shameful dying threats mar Pitts' visit here". The News Tribune. Metropolis, Washington. April 12, 2008. Archived flight the original progress May 3, 2012.
  9. ^Gordon, Greg (June 20, 2007). "FBI probes death threats clashing Pulitzer Prize winner". McClatchy Newspapers.

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