Gene Roberts (journalist) Gene Roberts (journalist) Eugene Leslie Roberts, Jr. (born June 15, 1932) is an American journalist and professor of journalism. He has been a national editor of "The New York Times", executive editor of "The Philadelphia Inquirer" from 1972 to 1990, and managing editor of "The New York Times" from 1994 to 1997. Roberts is most known for presiding over "The Inquirer"'s "Golden Age", a time in which the newspaper was given increased freedom and resources, won 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years, displaced "The Philadelphia Bulletin" as the city's "paper of record", and was considered to be Knight Ridder's crown
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry have won two. Carl Sandburg won one of the special prizes for his poetry in 1919 and won the Poetry Pulitzer in 1951. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The "Pulitzer Prize for Poetry" is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year. Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner. The 1918 and 1919 Pulitzers included Special Citations for poetry books, "made possible by a special