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Meet Don Wright
Don Wright, political cartoonist for The Palm Beach Post, is at the head of the class when it comes to editorial cartooning. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize -- in 1980 and 1966 -- for his skill and insight. He is a five-time recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award for his cartoons on foreign affairs, and he is a two-time Reuben Award winner. Wright, whose cartoons are syndicated by Tribune Media Services, began his career as an editorial cartoonist in 1963. Persuaded by the late Miami News editor, Bill Braggs, Wright gave up a career as a photographer and photo editor to pursue a career in cartooning. In 1989, he moved to The Palm Beach Post. In addition to his Pulitzer and Reuben awards, Wright was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award for outstanding coverage of the problems of the disadvantaged in 1983 and 1988 and three Inter-American Press Association awards in 1983, 1986 and 1990. He received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished service in journalism in 1978 and 1990 and the National Headliner Award for consistently outstanding editorial cartoons in 1980. In 1989, Wright received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Communication from Barry University in Miami. He has also won the Cox Newspaper Award for editorial cartooning and several other awards from 1965 to 1975 during his climb to the top. Wright's work is on permanent display at Syracuse University in New York. He has had one-man art shows at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Florida State University and twice at the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, Florida. He has been represented in group art shows at the Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington, D.C. and in other national shows, and he created theme artwork for a Dino De Laurentiis film about the American legal system. His work has been animated and distributed nationally by Newsweek Broadcasting Service. He is the author of three books, Wright On! and Wright Side Up (both published by Simon & Schuster) and Gang of Eight (Faber & Faber). Wright has been a member of the Board of Overseers of Emerson College, Boston University, and is listed in Who's Who of America. In addition to his work as a political cartoonist, Wright has been an award-winning newspaper photographer and graphics editor. Wright was born in Los Angeles. He and his wife Carolyn reside in Florida.
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