a great tradition of hal boyle. he is a great teller of tales. hal boyle won a pulitzer in 44 for his brilliant coverage of italy in the post normandy. homer bigart the person great power of betsy wade of the new york times, later worked for the new york times and was his great friend told me whenever homer bigart was introduced as a pulitzer winner he would say two time. two time pulitzer winner. spoofing the pretentiousness of it all but he had won journalism's most prestigious award twice and were honored one of the few people in the history of journalism. it used to be -- let me say this. be dated stuff, newspaper stuff, very few people can write with the bite and the breadth of homer bigart. blogger forms of, books, very few writers can write with the style of the wheat joe lee bling. the most frightening words in america used to be michael more is in the lobby. now it is maraniss sir is interviewing your ex-girlfriend. famous person especially when your real dad is everybody else at surrogate dad. i called him a few weeks after his dad died