Paul Greenberg
Pulitzer Prize-winning Paul Greenberg, one of the most respected and honored commentators in America, is the editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
An exceptional craftsman, he gives readers an aesthetic as well as political experience and has evoked comparisons to H.L. Mencken and William Allen White. A thoughtful essayist who can also be a devastating critic, Greenberg describes himself as "an ideologically unreliable conservative."
Greenberg won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1978 and 1986. Among his many other honors are the 1988 William Allen White Award, the 1988 Arkansas Associated Press Editorial Writing Award, the 1987 H.L. Mencken Award, the 1983 University of Missouri School of Journalism Medal of Honor, the American Society of Newspaper Editors' 1981 Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary, and the 1964 Grenville Clark Editorial Award. He also won two Walker Stone Awards, in 1985 and 1986.
Greenberg has been on the board of the National Conference of Editorial Writers and served as a Pulitzer jurist in 1984 and 1985. He is the author of the critically acclaimed "Resonant Lives: 50 Figures of Consequence" and "Entirely Personal."
Editorial page editor for the Pine Bluff Commercial in Arkansas from 1962 until 1992 – except for a hiatus as a Chicago Daily News editorial writer in 1966-67 – Greenberg lectures nationwide and regularly provides political analysis on Arkansas network television.
Paul Greenberg Samples
Holden Caulfield Is Heard From
I know you're not interested in me, only in who I knew. Applying myself. What else could old Thurmer do but give me the ax? Sure, I knew J.D. Which some people would envy, but, to tell you the truth, I didn't get that big a bang out of it.
Forward to the Past
Some things still surprise. Yes, that Barney Frank. Now this same Barney Frank has come out for putting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, his old sweethearts, out of their and the taxpayers' misery. This isn't at all like the man. What a turnaround.
Before and After: A Security Failure All Around
It wasn't just that the whole national security system -- you know, the one the secretary of Homeland Security said had worked -- didn't. As it turned out, the whole elaborate apparatus was unable to keep a clear and ticking danger off an American...
50 Ways to Beat the Cold
Here, presented as an annual public service, are 50 ways to stay warm during these wintry days -- and nights: 1. Longjohns. 2. Popcorn. 3. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. 4. Fireplaces in general. 5. Bathroom gas heaters.
The State of the President
Who would have thought that this year's State of the Union address would be so interesting a test of the president delivering it?
Educanto and the English Language
The plague is everywhere in American education, but particularly verbose examples of it are still worth noting.
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