Leonard Pitts, Jr. — Writer
LEONARD PITTS, JR. (b 1957) is a commentator, journalist, and novelist. He is a nationally syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. His first job after college was as a music writer for Los Angeles-based Soul magazine. He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but quickly received his own column, in which he dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture from a progressive perspective.
Raised in Los Angeles and educated at the University of Southern California, Pitts currently lives in Bowie, Maryland. He has won awards for his writing from the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and the National Association of Black Journalists, and he was first nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, eventually claiming the honor in 2004.
Pitts’ first book, “Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood,” was published in 2006. His seventh book, a novel titled “54 Miles,” a sequel to “The Last Thing You Surrender,” was published in 2024.
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