Howard M. Norton

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Howard M. Norton (born 1912) was the winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting.

Howard Norton grew up in Florida, and he attended the University of Florida for college. In 1933, he graduated with a Bachelors degree in journalism. After graduation he moved to Baltimore and became a Foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun.

Norton wrote a series of articles by dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court of 93 persons. For this hard work he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.