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Joseph Lelyveld

American journalist · United States · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1937 to 2024 · aged 86

Joseph Salem Lelyveld was an American journalist. He was executive editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books.

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2024Died5 January 20241986Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionAwardThe Hillman Prize for Book JournalismAward1983George Polk AwardAwardGuggenheim FellowshipAward1937Born5 April 1937

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Awards

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction1986
The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism1986
George Polk Award1983
Guggenheim Fellowship1983
Fulbright Scholarship

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United States
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1937 to 2024 · aged 86