Herblock
Cartoonist, Award Winner
1909 – 2001
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Who was Herblock?
Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock, was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy.
During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning, shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award in 1979, and numerous other honors.
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- Born
- Oct 13, 1909
Chicago - Also known as
- Herbert Lawrence Block
- Herbert Block
- Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Lake Forest College
- Lived in
- Chicago
- Died
- Oct 7, 2001
Washington, D.C.
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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