Jack William Fuller (October 21, 1946 – June 21, 2016)
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was an American journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers and was the author of seven novels and two books on journalism.
Biography
Fuller was born in
Chicago, Illinois
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[ He was a 1964 alumnus of ]Homewood-Flossmoor High School
Homewood-Flossmoor High School (H-F) is a comprehensive public high school in Flossmoor, Illinois. The district encompasses nearly 11.5 square miles drawing students from Homewood, Flossmoor, Chicago Heights, Glenwood, Hazel Crest, and Olympia ...
in Flossmoor, Illinois, and a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism
The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University that offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It frequently ranks as the top school of journalism in the Unite ...
and Yale Law School.
He began his journalism career as a copyboy for the ''Chicago Tribune''. Later he became a police reporter, a war correspondent in Vietnam, and a Washington correspondent. He worked for City News Bureau of Chicago, ''The Chicago Daily News'', ''Pacific Stars and Stripes'', and ''The Washington Post'', as well as the ''Tribune''. Fuller won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1986 for his ''Tribune'' editorials on constitutional issues.
During the administration of President Gerald Ford, Fuller served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi.
From 1989 to 1997 he was editor and then publisher of the ''Chicago Tribune.'' From 1997 to 2005 he served as president of the Tribune Company, Tribune Publishing Company.
He served on the board of the University of Chicago and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Fuller died of cancer on June 21, 2016, at the age of 69.
Selected works
* ''Convergence'' (Doubleday; University of Chicago Press, 1982)
* ''Fragments'' (William Morrow; University of Chicago Press, 1984)
* ''Mass'' (William Morrow, 1985)
* ''Our Fathers' Shadows'' (William Morrow, 1987)
* ''Legends' End'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990)
* ''News Values: Ideas for an Information Age''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
* ''Best of Jackson Payne: A Novel'' (Alfred Knopf; University of Chicago Press, 2000)
* ''Abbeville'' (Unbridled Books, 2008)
* ''What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. — Rea
an excerpt
* Levi, Edward H. ''Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi'' Edited by Jack Fuller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
References
External links
Jack Fuller Papers
at the Newberry Library
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1946 births
2016 deaths
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male journalists
American male novelists
American publishers (people)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners
Writers from Chicago
Medill School of Journalism alumni
Yale Law School alumni
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from Illinois
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Homewood-Flossmoor High School alumni