Richard Ben Cramer, Who Won Pulitzer at Inky, Is Dead


Richard Ben Cramer, widely regarded as one of the best political correspondents of his time, died Monday of cancer. The journalist won a Pulitzer in 1979, while working for the Philadelphia Inquirer, for his dispatches from a then-turbulent Middle East. He went on to write for a variety of publications, but earned perhaps his most praise for the book What It Takes: The Way to the White House, a masterly account of the 1988 presidential race that is regarded as one of the best political books ever. [Huffington Post]