Eighty years apart, two alums took home the prestigious Pulitzer Prize

Editor and author Mark Antony de Wolfe Howe, who graduated from Lehigh in 1886, won a Pulitzer in 1925 in Biography for Barrett Wendell and his Letters. In 2005, Joe Morgenstern '53, a film critic for The Wall Street Journal, won a Pulitzer for Criticism. 

At Lehigh, Howe was a member of the university choir, the Lehigh Burr satirical magazine, and Chi Phi fraternity.  He wrote biographies, history, and poetry and taught the first American Literature class at Harvard, where he received a master’s in 1888.

Morgenstern earned his bachelor’s in English at Lehigh. He was a disc jockey for WLRN, a member of Cyanide, the junior leadership honor society, and the Phi Eta Sigma honors fraternity, and he was president of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. Before joining WSJ, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and as a movie critic at Newsweek.