George Frederick Will (1941)
George Will is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative American newspaper
columnist, journalist, and author.
Will was born in Champaign, Ill., and was educated at Trinity College in
Hartford, and Oxford and Princeton Universities.
Prior to entering journalism, Will taught political philosophy at Michigan State
University and the University of Toronto, and served on the staff of U.S. Sen.
Gordon L. Allott (R-Colo.).
Until becoming a columnist for Newsweek, Will was Washington editor of the
National Review, a leading conservative journal of ideas and political
commentary.
As a columnist, television personality and author, George F. Will is one of the
most widely recognized, and widely read, writers in the world.
With more than 450 newspapers, a biweekly Newsweek column and appearances as a
political commentator on ABC, Will may be one of the most influential writers in
America.
In 1976, Will won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, for his newspaper columns,
and garnered awards for his Newsweek columns, including a finalist citation in
the essays and criticism category of the 1979 National Magazine Awards
competition.
He was also the recipient of a 1978 National Headliners Award for his
"consistently outstanding special features columns" appearing in Newsweek.
A column on New York City's finances earned him a 1980 Silurian Award for
editorial writing. In January 1985, The Washington Journalism Review named Will
"best writer, any subject." He was named among the 25 most influential
Washington journalists by the National Journal in 1997. Today Will serves as
a contributing analyst with ABC News and has been a regular member of ABC's
"This Week" on Sunday mornings since 1981. Five collections of his Newsweek
and newspaper columns have been published: "The Pursuit of Happiness and Other
Sobering Thoughts" (Harper & Row, 1978); "The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory
Notions" (Simon & Schuster, 1982); "The Morning After: American Successes and
Excesses 1981-1986" (Macmillan, 1986); "Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and
at Home 1986-1990" (The Free Press, 1990); "The Leveling Wind: Politics, the
Culture & Other News 1990-1994" (Viking, 1994). His other books: "Statecraft
as Soulcraft" (Simon & Schuster, 1983), a work of political philosophy that
originally appeared as the Godkin lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard in 1981; "The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988
Election" (Simon & Schuster, 1987); and "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball"
(Macmillan, 1989) which topped national bestseller lists in the No. 1 position
for more than two months. His book titled "Restoration: Congress, Term Limits
and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy" (Macmillan, 1992) argued for the
need to limit politicians' time in office. His latest book, another colleciton
of his work, is "the Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric, 1994-1997"
(Scribner, 1997).
(from:
Students and Leaders)
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