Tony Auth, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for
the Philadelphia Inquirer, died Sunday of brain cancer at age 72.
Auth was born in Akron, where his father was an executive
for Firestone.
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 – one of 84 claimed by
Knight-Ridder newspapers – and was a finalist in 1983 and 2010.
Knight Newspapers, which began with C.L. Knight’s purchase
of the Akron Beacon Journal in 1903, added the Philadelphia Inquirer to its
newspaper group in 1969.
Philly.com also offers a retrospective of Auth's career.
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