Louis Isaac Jaffe

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Louis Isaac Jaffe (born 1888?; died 1950) was an editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot from 1919 to 1950[1]. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1929 for An Unspeakable Act of Savagery, which condemned lynching[2]

A biography of him, titled Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffe by Alexander S. Leidholdt, was written in 2002

[edit] Web sources

  1. ^ Hebrew Cemetery
  2. ^ Pulitzer site
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