Clarence Page

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Clarence Page (born June 2, 1947) is a journalist, syndicated columnist and member of the editorial board for the Chicago Tribune.

He is an occasional panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a regular contributor of essays to NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting Service, and an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday. Page often appears as a political analyst on the Chris Matthews Show. He also appeared in the film Rising Sun (1993), playing himself as a talk show panel member.

Page was born in Dayton, Ohio. A 1965 graduate of Middletown High School in Ohio, he began his journalism career as a freelance writer and photographer for the Middletown Journal and Cincinnati Enquirer at the age of 17. Page received his Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Ohio University in 1969, where he was the commencement speaker in 1993 and 2001. He has received honorary doctorates from Columbia College in Chicago, Lake Forest College, and Nazareth College in Rochester.

He has been married since 1987 to the former Lisa Johnson of Chicago. They have one child and reside in Washington D.C.

[edit] Awards

1989 Pulitzer Prize for commentary
1987 American Civil Liberties Union James P. McGuire Award for columns on constitutional rights
1980 Illinois UPI Award for community service for The Black Tax
1976 Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting on the changing politics of Southern Africa
1972 Pulitzer Prize for a Chicago Tribune Task Force series on voter fraud

[edit] Bibliography

What Killed Lenita McClain?: Essays on Living in Both Black and White Worlds by Lenita McClain, Clarence Page (Noble Press, 1999) ISBN 1-879360-38-1
Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity (HarperCollins, 1996) ISBN 0-06-017256-8
A Foot in Each World: Essays and Articles by Leanita McClain, Clarence Page (Northwestern University Press, 1986) ISBN 0-8101-0741-4