Clarence Page

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Clarence Page on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (December 27, 2002).
Clarence Page on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (December 27, 2002).

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's achievements came despite an undiagnosed case of ADD, the effects of which he recounts in a chapter in Positively ADD.[1]

Page was born in Dayton, Ohio. A 1965 graduate of Middletown High School in Middletown, 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.

Page served in the United States military during the Vietnam War. After graduating college and taking a position with the Chicago Tribune, he was drafted in 1969 after only six months with the paper. He found himself assigned as an Army journalist with the 212th Artillery Group at Fort Lewis, Washington until 1971, when his obligation ended and he made his way back to the Tribune in 1971.[2]

He has been married since 1987 to the former Lisa Johnson of Chicago. They have one child, Grady Page, and reside in Takoma Park, Maryland.

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[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 Leanita McClain?: Essays on Living in Both Black and White Worlds by Leanita 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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hallowell and Corman, Positively ADD, Walker Books for Young Readers, pp. 90-97
  2. ^ url=http://www.dailypress.com/news/columnists/chi-clarencepagebio,0,4744288.story]

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