Jack Fuller
{{short description|American novelist}}
{{For|the English Member of Parliament (died 1834)|Mad Jack Fuller}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Jack Fuller
|birth_name=Jack William Fuller
|birth_date={{birth date|1946|10|12}}
|birth_place=Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|2016|6|21|1946|10|21}}
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Journalist
- author
}}
|alma_mater=Homewood-Flossmoor High School
Medill School of Journalism
Yale Law School
|awards=Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1986)
}}
Jack William Fuller (October 12, 1946 – June 21, 2016)Biography at the [http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/fullerj/Fullerjf.html Inventory of the Jack Fuller Papers, 1951-2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611164515/http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/fullerj/Fullerjf.html |date=2011-06-11 }} 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. He was a 1964 alumnus of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois, and a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism 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.[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Editorial-Writing "Editorial Writing"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 31, 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/18/nyregion/winners-of-pulitzer-prizes-in-journalism-letters-and-the-arts.html|title=WINNERS OF PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM, LETTERS AND THE ARTS|date=April 18, 1986|work=The New York Times|accessdate=June 21, 2016}}
During the administration of President Gerald Ford, Fuller served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi.
From 1989{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/09/us/editor-of-the-chicago-tribune-quits-his-job.html|title=Editor of The Chicago Tribune Quits His Job|date=December 9, 1989|work=The New York Times|accessdate=June 21, 2016}} to 1997 he was editor and then publisher of the Chicago Tribune. From 1997{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/31/business/company-news-promotions-at-tribune-co.html|title=Promotions at Tribune Co.|date=July 31, 1993|work=The New York Times|accessdate=June 21, 2016}} to 2005 he served as president of the 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-jack-fuller-dead-20160621-story.html|title=Jack Fuller, ex-Tribune editor and publisher, dies at 69|date=June 21, 2016|work=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=June 21, 2016}}
Selected works
- Convergence (Doubleday; University of Chicago Press, 1982) {{ISBN|978-0-226-26881-1}}
- Fragments (William Morrow; University of Chicago Press, 1984) {{ISBN|978-0-226-26886-6}}
- Mass (William Morrow, 1985) {{ISBN|0-688-04685-1}}
- Our Fathers' Shadows (William Morrow, 1987) {{ISBN|0-340-39878-7}}
- Legends' End (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990) {{ISBN|0-340-50982-1}}
- News Values: Ideas for an Information Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. {{ISBN|9780226268798}}
- Best of Jackson Payne: A Novel (Alfred Knopf; University of Chicago Press, 2000) {{ISBN|978-0-226-26868-2}}
- Abbeville (Unbridled Books, 2008) {{ISBN|978-1-932961-47-8}}
- What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. {{ISBN|9780226268989}} — Read [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/268989.html 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. {{ISBN|9780226041315}}
References
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External links
- [https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/1286 Jack Fuller Papers] at the Newberry Library
- {{LCAuth|n82007615|Jack Fuller|12|}}
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Category:Medill School of Journalism alumni
Category:Yale Law School alumni
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