William Safire

William Lewis Safire(December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009) was an American Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, author, and journalist.

Safire, a member of the Republican party and a self-described conservative libertarian, was most widely known as a partisan columnist for the New York Times.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize, 1978

Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2006

Books

The Relations Explosion: The Coming Boom and Shakeout in Corporate Relations (1963) Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House (1975) Full Disclosure (1977, novel) Safire's Political Dictionary (1978) William Safire on Language (1980) Safire's Washington (1980) What's the Good Word? (1982) I Stand Corrected: More on Language (1984) Take My Word for It (1986) Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War (1987) You Could Look It Up: More on Language from William Safire (1988) Fumblerules: A Lighthearted Guide to Grammar and Good Usage (1990) Language Maven Strikes Again (1990) Coming To Terms (1991) The First Dissident: The Book of Job In Today's Politics (1992) Old Books Have a Future (1993) Quoth the Maven: More on Language from William Safire (1993) In Love with Norma Loquendi (1994) Sleeper Spy: A Novel of Deception (1995, novel) Watching My Language: Adventures in the Word Trade (1997) Spread the Word (1999) Scandalmonger (2000, novel) The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time (2004)