Death of Anthony Lewis

March 27, 1927 - March 25, 2013
Cambridge, Massachusetts | Age 85

Pulitzer Prize-winner dies at 85
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DENISE LAVOIE, The 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 worked for 32 years as a columnist for the Times, taking up such causes as free speech, human rights and constitutional law. He won his first Pulitzer in 1955 as a reporter defending a Navy civilian falsely accused of being a communist sympathizer, and he won again in 1963 for...

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