Edwin Milton Yoder is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 winner.

Life

Yoder was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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, graduating in English in 1956. He then won a Rhodes Scholarship

Rhodes Scholarship

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 to Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College, Oxford

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, and studied PPE from 1956 to 1958. He was then an editorial writer for various newspapers including the Charlotte News, the Greensboro Daily News and the Washington Star

Washington Star

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. During his time at the Washington Star, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

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 in 1979. He has been a columnist on the Washington Post since 1982. In 1992, he was appointed Professor of Humanities at Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University

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. He was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford in 1998.

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