Nick kotz biography

Nick Kotz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who exposed health hazards in the nation's slaughterhouses, the gamut of hunger in America and the.
Nick Kotz received the 2006 RFK Book Award for Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America.
Born September 16, 1932, in San Antonio, TX; son of Jacob (a physician) and Tybe Kotz; married Mary Lynn Booth (a freelance writer), August 12, 1960; children.

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Nick Kotz

American journalist (1932–2020)

Nick Kotz
at the 2014 National Book Festival
Born	(1932-09-16)September 16, 1932 San Antonio, Texas, US
Died	April 26, 2020(2020-04-26) (aged 87) Broad Run, Virginia, US
Occupation	Journalist, Author, and Historian
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Dartmouth College, London School of Economics
Genre	History
Notable awards
Spouse	Mary Lynn Kotz
www.nickkotz.com

Nathan K. "Nick" Kotz (September 16, 1932 – April 26, 2020) was an American journalist, author, and historian.

His most recent book, The Harness Makers Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas, tells the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison's journey to the United States. He is best known for his 2005 book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America^[3] chronicling the roles of US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. in the passage of the 1964, 1965, and 1968 civil rights laws. Kotz won a Pulitzer Prize for Nati

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Kotz, Nick 1932–

(Nathan Kallison Kotz)

PERSONAL:

Born September 16, 1932, in San Antonio, TX; son of Jacob (a physician) and Tybe Kotz; married Mary Lynn Booth (a freelance writer), August 12, 1960; children: Jack Mitchell. Education:Dartmouth College, A.B., 1955; attended London School of Economics, 1955-56.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Broad Run, VA.

CAREER:

Journalist and writer. Des Moines Register,Des Moines, Iowa, reporter, 1958-64, Washington correspondent, 1964-70; Washington Post, Washington, DC, reporter, beginning 1970. Distinguished adjunct professor, American University School of Communications. Military service: U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 1956-58; became first lieutenant.

MEMBER:

National Press Club, Sigma Delta Chi.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Raymond Clapper Awards, 1966, 1968; Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, 1968; the first Robert Kennedy Memorial Award in journalism, 1969; Olive Branch Award, Editors' Organizing Committee, 1989, for Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber; National Magazine Award.

WRITINGS:

Let Them Eat Promises: The Pol

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Nick Kotz is the author most recently of The Harness Maker's Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas, which tells the story of his grandfather and other family members. Kotz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, worked for The Washington Post and The Des Moines Register, and wrote five other books, including Judgment Days and Wild Blue Yonder. He lives in Broad Run, Virginia.
Q: What about your grandfather’s life could only have happened in Texas, and what was different about being Jewish in San Antonio during this period, as opposed to other cities with larger Jewish populations?
A: The main thing Jews had going for them, because there were relatively few of them and because of the atmosphere of the South and Southwest, [was that although] they were noticeable, there was less prejudice.
Nathan starts out in Chicago. I describe the fierce prejudice between Greeks, Italians, Jews. Nathan specifically, right at the outset where he moves his business from Chicago to San Antonio--there’s one bank, owned by the [Jewish] Oppenheimer broth