![]() In 1993, Pitts was first nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and in 2004, he won it. "When the kids were younger, there was a lot more slice-of-life observational stuff about being a dad," Pitts says. Not that all the columns were hard-hitting. "It was the 30th anniversary of the Kitty Genovese stabbing," he says. We came up with the idea of my having a column to write anything I wanted to write about."įor his first column, Pitts chose a gritty topic. "I went to my boss and explained what I was thinking. "You do 18 years of music and then you find yourself writing a lot of reviews that start, 'I remember when' or 'I remember the day,'" he says. When Pitts was attacked at a concert one night, he realized he needed a change. ![]() "I was a music critic for the first 18 years of my professional life," Pitts says. Yes, the no-holds-barred commentator who routinely discusses race, politics and culture so fearlessly was hired as a music critic. Leonard Pitts Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning, hard-hitting, nationally syndicated columnist who will appear at the Savannah Book Festival, was originally hired by the Miami Herald as a critic - of music. ![]()
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