William A. Caldwell, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam A. Caldwell
American journalist
Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1906
Date of Death: 11-Apr-1986
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About William A. Caldwell
- William Anthony Caldwell (December 5, 1906 – April 11, 1986) was an American journalist and columnist who spent 48 years at The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey.
- He won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.Caldwell was born in Butler, Pennsylvania and grew up in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
- When he was eleven, his family moved to New Jersey and he attended Hasbrouck Heights High School.
- In his sophomore year, his father, a newspaper editor, died.
- His newspaper career began at age 15 when he became a part-time editor of the weekly Hasbrouck Heights Newsletter.
- By the time he graduated from high school in 1924, he had worked for the Associated Press as a clerk and part-time for the Hudson Dispatch of Union City, New Jersey.His long career at The Record began in 1924 as a stringer covering local sports.
- He became a full-time sports writer in 1926 and then began covering local Prohibition era politics.
- In 1927, he and another reporter uncovered a scandal involving a new sewer system in Lodi Township, New Jersey, which resulted in a senator being expelled from the New Jersey Senate.
- In October 1931 he covered the opening of the George Washington Bridge.In 1931 he began writing his six-day-a-week editorial column called "Simeon Stylites", named after Saint Simeon Stylites, a 5th-century ascetic who lived on top of a pillar for 39 years.
- Each column was exactly 85 lines long and he wrote about 12,000 of them until he retired in 1972, the year after he won the Pulitzer Prize.
- In 1972, Rutgers University Press published a compilation of 112 of Caldwell's "Simeon Stylites" as In the Record: the Simeon Stylites Columns of William A.
- Caldwell (1972).He retired to Martha's Vineyard but continued to write a Sunday column for The Record and served as a columnist and editor for the Vineyard Gazette.
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