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Meet Ben Sargent
Ben Sargent, winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, was born into a newspaper family in Amarillo, Texas, in 1948. Sargent learned the printing trade starting at age 12, and by age 14 he was working for the local daily as a proof runner. He holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Sargent worked as a reporter for five years, mainly covering the State Capitol, for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Long News Service, the Austin American-Statesman and United Press International. He started drawing editorial cartoons for the American-Statesman in August 1974. His editorial cartoons are now distributed by Universal Press Syndicate and appear in nearly 75 newspapers across the county. In addition to the Pulitzer, Sargent is the winner of numerous other awards including the 1981 Women in Communications Outstanding Communicator Award; the 1982 Texas Women's Political Caucus Media Award; the 1983 Headliner's Club Special Journalism Award; the 1988 Free Press Association's Mencken Award; the 1989 University of Texas Outstanding Young Texas Eyes Award; and 1990 Common Cause of Texas Public Service Award in Journalism. He is a member of Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, having served as vice president (1986-1988) and as president (1988-1989). Sargent is the author of two books, "Texas Statehouse Blues" (1980) and "Big Brother Blues" (1984), both published by Texas Monthly Press. He is married to Diane Holloway, an American-Statesman television critic, and they have two children, Elizabeth and Sam.
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