| Roger Wilkins  AKA Roger W. Wilkins
Born: 1932
Birthplace: Kansas City, MO
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Educator, Journalist, Government Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Author, blackademic Now a history professor at George Mason University, Roger Wilkins served as an editor at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Washington Star. It was at the Post that he shared in the Pulitzer Prize for that paper's reporting on the Watergate scandal.
Father: (d.)
Daughter: Amy Wilkins (News Hour reporter)
High School: Creston High School, Grand Rapids, MI
University: BA, University of Michigan (1953)
Law School: LLB, University of Michigan (1956)
Professor: George Mason University
The Washington Star Associate Editor 1980-81
The New York Times Columnist 1977-79
The New York Times Editorial Board 1974-79
The Washington Post Editorial staff 1972-74
Ford Foundation
Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow 1982-92
NAACP
Obama for America
Pulitzer Prize 1972
Watergate Scandal
Author of books:
A Man's Life: An Autobiography (1982, memoir)
Jefferson's Pillow: A Black Patriot Confronts the Myths of the Founding Fathers (2001, nonfiction)
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