Paul Greenberg

Pulitzer Prize-winning Paul Greenberg, one of the most respected and honored commentators in America, is the editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

An exceptional craftsman, he gives readers an aesthetic as well as political experience and has evoked comparisons to H.L. Mencken and William Allen White. A thoughtful essayist who can also be a devastating critic, Greenberg describes himself as "an ideologically unreliable conservative." It was in the 1970s that Greenberg gave Bill Clinton the sobriquet "Slick Willie."

Greenberg won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1978 and 1986. Among his many other honors are the 1988 William Allen White Award, the 1988 Arkansas Associated Press Editorial Writing Award, the 1987 H.L. Mencken Award, the 1983 University of Missouri School of Journalism Medal of Honor, the American Society of Newspaper Editors' 1981 Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary and the 1964 Grenville Clark Editorial Award.

In winning two Walker Stone Awards, he was cited in 1985 as "one of the leading stylists of American opinion writing . . . entertaining the reader with independent thinking," and in 1986 because "he illuminates contemporary events with wit, clarity and an expansive literary and historical frame of reference . . . and he speaks to the reader as a neighbor."

Greenberg has been on the board of the National Conference of Editorial Writers and served as a Pulitzer jurist in 1984 and 1985. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Resonant Lives: 50 Figures of Consequence (1991) and Entirely Personal (1992).

Editorial page editor for the Pine Bluff Commercial in Arkansas from 1962 until 1992 -- except for a hiatus as a Chicago Daily News editorial writer in 1966-67 -- Greenberg lectures nationwide and regularly provides political analysis on Arkansas network television.

Born and raised in Shreveport, La., Greenberg earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in journalism and history at the University of Missouri and did further post-graduate work at Columbia University. He has taught history at Hunter College in New York and at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. In 1985 he was a visiting Fulbright Fellow in Soviet-American relations at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

He and his wife, the former Carolyn Levy, have two children and live in Little Rock.