John Hohenberg was an American journalist and academic.
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16 Facts About John Hohenberg
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John Hohenberg was born in a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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John Hohenberg briefly attended the University of Washington as an engineering major during the early 1920s before pursuing a journalistic career and returning to New York, where he received a B Litt.
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The following year, John Hohenberg completed non-degree graduate studies at the University of Vienna on a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, presaging his later involvement with the awards program.
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In 1923, John Hohenberg worked at The Seattle Star after dropping out from the University of Washington.
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John Hohenberg remained in this position until he joined the New York Journal-American as a national political writer and second-string theater critic in 1933, a position he retained for nine years.
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Deferring an offer to return to the Post, John Hohenberg enlisted in the United States Army during World War II, serving from 1943 to 1945.
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John Hohenberg held this joint appointment until 1974, when he stepped down from his professorship.
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In 1976, John Hohenberg retired as administrator after overseeing the transition of the program's Advisory Board into an autonomous award-granting body in conjunction with chairman Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
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That year, John Hohenberg received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his service.
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John Hohenberg was affiliated with the East-West Center as a senior specialist and held a visiting professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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John Hohenberg was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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John Hohenberg resided in Park Slope, Brooklyn throughout his journalistic career, moving to a Columbia-owned faculty apartment on Morningside Drive for the duration of his affiliation.
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John Hohenberg married Dorothy Lannuier, a classmate at the Columbia Journalism School, in 1928.
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John Hohenberg died from complications of Alzheimer's disease in 1977; they had no children.
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John Hohenberg was survived by his second wife, JoAnn Fogarty Johnson, and her two children, whom he adopted.
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