Don Murray (writer)

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Donald Morrison Murray (1923 – December 30, 2006)^[1] was a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist,^[1] and long-time teacher^[1] (eventually Professor Emeritus^[1]) of English at the University of New Hampshire.^[1] He wrote for many journals,^{[citation needed]} authored several books on the art of writing and teaching, and served as writing coach for several national newspapers.^{[citation needed]} Writing for the Boston Herald, he won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, "for a series of editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy."^[2] For twenty years, he wrote the Boston Globe 's "Over 60" column, eventually renamed "Now And Then."^[1]

On Writing

Murray chronicled his relationship with writing until the day he died. In a column published just before his death, he wrote, "Each time I sit down to write I don't know if I can do it. The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can."^[1] His final column was published in the Boston Globe five days before his death.^[1]

Books

• Man Against Earth: The story of Tunnels and Tunnel Builders (J.B. Lippincott. Philadelphia, 1961).
• The Man Who Had Everything (novel) (New American Library, 1964).
• A writer teaches writing: a practical method of teaching composition (Houghton Mifflin, 1968).
• Learning by Teaching (Heinemann, 1982).
• Expecting the Unexpected (Heinemann, 1989).
• Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem (Boynton/Cook, 1996).
• Write to Learn (Harcourt Brace, 1998).
• The Craft of Revision (Harcourt Brace, 1998).
• A Writer Teaches Writing (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1990).
• The Literature of Tomorrow: an anthology of student fiction, poetry, and drama (1990).
• My Twice-Lived Life: A Memoir (Ballatine Books, 2001).
• The Lively Shadow: Living with the Death of a Child (Ballantine, 2003).

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Marquard, Bryan (2006-12-31). "Columnist Donald Murray dies at 82". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/31/columnist_donald_murray_dies_at_82/. Retrieved 2008-07-16. 
2. ^ Pulitzer Prizes, 1954

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