Herblock
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Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy.
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Herblock, born in 1909 and died in 2001, was a figure whose work spanned from 1929 to 2001. He used the pseudonym Herblock during his career.
His contributions have been recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Presidential Medal Of Freedom collection.
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Key facts
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- Herblock portrait.jpg
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- Block likely in the 1950s
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- Block smiling
- Comics creator.birth_name
- Herbert Lawrence Block
- Comics creator.birth_place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Comics creator.death_place
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Comics creator.area
- Cartoonist
- Comics creator.alias
- Herblock
- Comics creator.notable works
- Editorial cartoonsHerblock Prize
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lawrence
- Family name
- Block
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- editing staff
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- foreign policy
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- date of birth
- 1909-10-13
- date of death
- 2001-10-07
- has works in the collection
- National Portrait Gallery
- nickname
- Herblock
- birth name
- Herbert Lawrence Block
- pseudonym
- Herblock
- start of work period
- 1929-00-00
- end of work period
- 2001-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life and death
- Honors
- Legacy: the Herb Block Foundation
- Exhibitions
- Books of collected cartoons by Herbert Block
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy.
During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, and 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honors.
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