Block, Herbert, 1909-2001
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Sources of Information
- His The Herblock book, 1952.
- His Herblock through the looking glass, c1984:CIP t.p. (Herbert Block) pub. info. (Herbert Lawrence Block)
- Wikipedia WWW site, Feb. 3, 2006(Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock; b. Oct. 13, 1909; d. Oct. 7, 2001; U.S. editorial cartoonist)
- Info. from 678 field, 2012-12-30(cartoonist for Washington Post)
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Wikipedia description:
Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001), 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 (1942, 1954, and 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honors.
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