John D. Maurice

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John D. Maurice won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing^[1] for his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook controversy.

Maurice worked as a reporter in Huntington, West Virginia, prior to joining the Daily Mail of Charleston, West Virginia, in 1938.^[1]