| Roger Wilkins  AKA Roger W. Wilkins
Born: 25-Mar-1932
Birthplace: Kansas City, MO
Died: 26-Mar-2017
Location of death: Kensington, MD
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Educator, Journalist 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: Earl W. Wilkins (journalist, d.)
Mother: Helen Natalie Jackson Clayton
Wife: Eve Tyler (div., one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Amy T. Wilkins (journalist)
Son: David E.
Wife: Mary Myers (div.)
Wife: Patricia A. King (m. 21-Feb-1981, until his death, one daughter)
Daughter: Elizabeth W.
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)
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Board of Directors
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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