Edwin Yoder

Edwin Milton Yoder Jr. was born on July 18, 1934.{{cite book|title=Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-03298-1|pages=362–363|author=Riley, Sam G.}} He was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in English in 1956. Yoder then won a Rhodes Scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics from 1956 to 1958.{{Cite web |url=http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/personBio.aspx?c=455 |title=Civil Rights Greensboro: Edwin M. Yoder, Jr. |access-date=2011-08-24 |archive-date=2014-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007142146/http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/personbio.aspx?c=455 |url-status=dead }} While at Oxford, Yoder was a member of the Oxford University basketball team with teammates Willie Morris and Paul Sarbanes.{{Cite book|last=Morris|first=Willie|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10178292|title=Always Stand in Against the Curve, and Other Sports Stories|date=1983|publisher=Yoknapatawpha Press|isbn=0-916242-25-0|location=Oxford, Miss.|oclc=10178292}} He was then an editorial writer for various newspapers including the Charlotte News, the Greensboro Daily News and the Washington Star. During his time at the Washington Star, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1979.{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/y/Yoder,Edwin_M.html| title=Edwin M. Yoder Papers Inventory (#4963)| publisher=University of North Carolina| accessdate=2008-10-07}} He was a columnist on The Washington Post from 1982. In 1992, he was appointed Professor of Humanities at Washington and Lee University. He was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1998.{{cite journal|journal=The Jesus College Record|issue=1998/1999|year=1999|pages=12|title=Fellows' News|last=De'Ath|first=John}}

He died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on November 30, 2023, at the age of 89.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/04/edwin-yoder-dead-pulitzer/ Edwin Yoder, Pulitzer-winning editorial writer, columnist, dies at 89] {{subscription required}}

• 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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