Clarence Page - Definition and Overview

Clarence Page is a journalist, syndicated columnist and member of the editorial board for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in Washington D.C. and is an occasional panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a regular contributor of essays to NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting System. He is also an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday.

Awards

• 1989 Pulitzer Prize for commentary
• 1987 American Civil Liberties Union James P. McGuire Award for columns on constitutional rights
• 1980 Illinois UPI Award for community service for The Black Tax
• 1976 Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting on the changing politics of Southern Africa
• 1972 Pulitzer Prize for a Chicago Tribune Task Force series on voter fraud

Bibliography

• Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity (HarperCollins, 1996) ISBN 0060172568
• A Foot in Each World: Essays and Articles by Leanita McClain, Clarence Page (Northwestern University Press, 1986) ISBN 0810107414
• What Killed Lenita McClain?: Essays on Living in Both Black and White Worlds by Lenita McClain, Clarence Page (Noble Press, 1999) ISBN 1879360381

External link

• Clarence Page's columns in the Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-clarencepage.columnist) includes archive and biography