Syndicated and former PD Pulitzer-winning columnist Connie Schultz
will receive the 2018 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the
National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
Connie won her Pulitzer in 2005 while at the PD.
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| Connie Schultz |
The Pyle award, named for the famous World War II war correspondent
who brought America stories of G.I. Joes, will be handed to Connie during the society’s
June
7-10 conference in Cincinnati.
For 10 years Creators Syndicate has been distributing Connie’s columns.
Connie responded:
“Many years ago, a reader familiar with my work
sent me a first-edition copy of Ernie Pyle’s book ‘Brave Men’ and Lee G.
Miller’s biography ‘The Story of Ernie Pyle.’ The reader, who identified
himself as an elderly man, asked that I never stop writing about the ‘regular
men and women who make up this great country.’
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| Ernie Pyle |
“Both books continue to hold a place of honor
in my personal library, but since learning of this award, they feel like
whispers from the grave of a great journalist who died before I was born.
"Ernie
Pyle knew there is no such thing as an ordinary person, and it has been my
privilege to illustrate that singular truth for nearly 40 years, one story at a
time. I hope to do so as long as I draw a breath.”
Sherrod Brown, a U.S. Senator from Ohio, is married to Connie, who
also is a Professional in Residence at Kent
State’s Journalism and Mass Media School. They have four children and five grandchildren and
live in Cleveland.
Since 1993 Pyle winners have included Dave
Barry, Art Buchwald, Roger Ebert, Judith “Miss Manners” Martin and Andy Rooney.
Dana, Indiana native Ernest Taylor Pyle was
killed in 1945 on Okinawa in the last pitched battle of World War II. Infantry
soldiers buried him with his helmet still on. He was 44.
He won a Pulitzer in 1944 for his interviews of
“dogface” soldiers for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain.
His early reporting as America’s first aviation
columnist created a friendship with legendary pilot Amelia Earhart.
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