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Don Wright

Don Wright, political cartoonist for The Palm Beach Post, is at the head of the class when it comes to editorial cartooning. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize – in 1980 and 1966 – for his skill and insight. He is a five-time recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award for his cartoons on foreign affairs, and he is a two-time Reuben Award winner.

Wright, whose cartoons are syndicated by Tribune Media Services, began his career as an editorial cartoonist in 1963. Persuaded by the late Miami News editor, Bill Braggs, Wright gave up a career as a photographer and photo editor to pursue a career in cartooning. In 1989, he moved to The Palm Beach Post.

In addition to his Pulitzer and Reuben awards, Wright was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award for outstanding coverage of the problems of the disadvantaged in 1983 and 1988 and three Inter-American Press Association awards in 1983, 1986 and 1990. He received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished service in journalism in 1978 and 1990 and the National Headliner Award for consistently outstanding editorial cartoons in 1980. In 1989, Wright received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Communication from Barry University in Miami.

Wright's work is on permanent display at Syracuse University in New York. He has had one-man art shows at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Florida State University and twice at the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, Florida. He is the author of three books, "Wright On!" and "Wright Side Up" (both published by Simon & Schuster) and "Gang Of Eight" (Faber & Faber).

Wright has been a member of the Board of Overseers of Emerson College, Boston University, and is listed in "Who's Who of America." In addition to his work as a political cartoonist, Wright has been an award-winning newspaper photographer and graphics editor.

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