Don Wright

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Don Wright is a cartoonist known for his editorial cartoons. He started his newspaper career as a photogapher and photo editor, switching to editorial cartooning in 1963. He worked for The Miami News until it ceased publication in 1988, and has worked at The Palm Beach Post since then. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1966 and 1980 and the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1985. He has also won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism twice, the Inter American Press Award three times, the Overseas Press Club Award five times, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award twice, the National Headliner Award and the Best of Cox Award twice. His cartoons have been published in three books.