Edwin Milton Yoder, Jr. (born July 18, 1934) is an American

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and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Life

Yoder was educated at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

, graduating in English in 1956. He then won a Rhodes Scholarship to

Jesus College, Oxford Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship S ...

, and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics from 1956 to 1958. While at Oxford, Yoder was a member of the Oxford University basketball team with teammates

Willie Morris William Weaks Morris (November 29, 1935 – August 2, 1999) was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his family later moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, which he immortalized in his works of prose. Morris' tradem ...

and

Paul Sarbanes Paul Spyros Sarbanes (; February 3, 1933 – December 6, 2020) was an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party from Maryland, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 ...

. He was then an editorial writer for various newspapers including the '' Charlotte News'', the '' Greensboro Daily News'' and the ''

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''. During his time at the ''Washington Star'', he won the

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in 1979. He has been a columnist on ''

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'' since 1982. In 1992, he was appointed Professor of Humanities at

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. He was elected to an Honorary

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of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1998.

Publications

*''The Night of the Old South Ball, and Other Essays and Fables'', Oxford, 1984. *''The Unmaking of a Whig and Other Essays in Self-Definition'', Georgetown University Press, 1990. *''Joe Alsop's Cold War: A Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue,'' U. of NC Press, 1995. *''The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past,'' UP of Mississippi, 1997. *"Blackmail"—winner of Andrew Lytle 2002 Prize in Fiction in the ''Sewanee Review,'' fall 2002. *''Telling Others What To Think: Recollections of a Pundit,'' LSU Press, 2004. *''Lions at Lamb House,'' Europa Editions, 2007.

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* * * Living people 1934 births University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners Washington and Lee University faculty American Rhodes Scholars The Washington Star people 20th-century American journalists American male journalists {{US-journalist-1930s-stub