John Strohmeyer

Who was John Strohmeyer?

John Strohmeyer was the 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing “for his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem.”

John Strohmeyer was born in Boston, Massachusetts and spent several decades as a working journalist, including as an editor at the now-defunct Bethlehem Globe-Times from 1956 to 1984. John Strohmeyer won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1984 to research and write about a steel company's battle to survive. In 1992, Bob Atwood brought him to Alaska, to lecture in journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage in a position endowed by Atwood. While there, Strohmeyer wrote Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska. Strohmeyer also wrote Atwood's biography, which was never published due to a dispute which arose after Atwood's death between Strohmeyer and Atwood's daughter Elaine

John Strohmeyer died of heart failure on March 3, 2010 in Crystal River, Florida.