Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis dies at 85
Source: Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday. He was 85.
Lewis was married to Margaret Marshall, former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She retired in 2010 to spend more time with her husband after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. A court spokeswoman confirmed his death.
Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for The New York Times, taking up causes such as free speech, human rights and constitutional law.
His Pulitzers came during his years as a reporter. He won his first in 1955 for defending a Navy civilian falsely accused of being a communist sympathizer, and he won again in 1963 for reporting on the Supreme Court. . .
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One of the good guys.
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.... He definitely WAS one of the good ones.
I had no idea he was 85, though. Deepest condolences to his wife and family.
