Background
Yoder, Edwin Milton was born on July 18, 1934 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Edwin M. and Mytrice M. (Logue) Yoder.
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Telling Others What to Think: Recollections of a Pundit (Media & Public Affairs)
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A Pulitzer Prize--winning editorialist and a former syndicated columnist, Edwin M. Yoder Jr. spent forty years as a newspaper journalist. Telling Others What to Think, he writes, is about "an education in its broadest sense," the experiences and personal influences that formed him. Yoder became a full-time editorial writer at the early age of twenty-four, and he traces his aptitude for punditry to the southern storytelling tradition, a long family heritage of scholars and schoolteachers, and his father's being "opinionated" -- in the better sense of that word. Journalism, Yoder says, was a way to be a writer and still put bread on the table, and throughout his career, he would excel as a prose craftsman. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- where he edited the Daily Tar Heel -- he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then returned to his home state, a place celebrated for lively newspaper editorial writing. First at the Charlotte News and then at the Greensboro Daily News, Yoder took on the Birch Society and segregation, among other targets. Throughout his memoir, he credits unbidden good fortune -- rather than any planned path -- with shaping his destiny. The call to go to Washington, D.C. -- a "Mecca for journalists" -- as editorial page editor of the Star was more good luck in Yoder's view. He won a Pulitzer at the Star in 1979, and when that paper folded in 1981, he joined the Washington Post Writers Group as a syndicated columnist. For fifteen years his column appeared in many major regional newspapers around the country and abroad in London and Paris. In his book, Yoder is most compelling when describing the pleasures and hazards of maintaining professional and social relationships with people in the arena of politics and public life -- including Washington Post editorial page editor Meg Greenfield, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, writer and editor Willie Morris, and Georgetown University president Father Timothy Healy. Circumspect, forthright, and generous in his reflections, Yoder the man and the pundit prove to be the same. An appendix presents a portfolio of his past columns, sage advice to the aspiring opinion writer, and thoughts on the tabloidization of news in recent years. A rich and intriguing personal story of someone whose job it was to comment on the events of the day, Ed Yoder's Telling Others What to Think speaks eloquently as well of the wider world of American politics and culture.
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Night of the Old South Ball: And Other Essays and Fables
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Lions at Lamb House: Freud's "Lost" Analysis of Henry James
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"This wonderful novel discloses the nature of two monumental minds, making each more dazzling in the process. . . . A rare book, as moving as it is thoughtful."-Roger Rosenblatt In 1908, an Austrian psychiatrist visits southern England at the urgent request of a Boston colleague, who fears his brother's intention to rewrite his early novels may be the sign of debilitating neuroses. The Austrian doctor is Sigmund Freud. The Boston psychologist is William James, and the novelist is his brother Henry. Over ten days, the worlds of psychology and literature collide-giving rise to this charming novel of ideas.
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Edwin Milton Yoder
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Edwin Milton Yoder, American Columnist, educator, editor, writer. Recipient awards editorial writing North Carolina Press Association, 1958, 61, 66, Walker Stone award Scripps-Howard Foundation, 1978, Pulitzer prize editorial writing, 1979; Distinguished Alumnus award University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, University North Carolina, 1956; Bachelor, Master of Arts (Rhodes scholar), Oxford (England) University, 1958; Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Grinnell College, 1980; Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Elon College, 1986; Doctor of Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, 1993; Doctor of Letters (honorary), Richmond College, London.
Career
Editorial writer, Charlotte (North Carolina) News, 1958-1961; editorial writer, Greensboro Daily News, 1961-1964; associate editor, Greensboro Daily News, 1965-1975; assistant professor of history, U. North Carolina, Greensboro, 1964-1965; editorial page editor, Washington Star, 1975-1981; syndicated columnist, Washington Post Writers Group, 1982-1997; professor journalism and humanities, Washington and Lee University, since 1992. Honorary fellow Jesus College, Oxford, England, since 1998.
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Lions at Lamb House: Freud's "Lost" Analysis of Henry James
( "This wonderful novel discloses the nature of two monum...)
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Telling Others What to Think: Recollections of a Pundit (Media & Public Affairs)
( A Pulitzer Prize--winning editorialist and a former syn...)
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Night of the Old South Ball: And Other Essays and Fables
(Book by Yoder, Edwin M., Jr.)
- Night of the Old South Ball: And Other Essays and Fables by Edwin M. Yoder (1984-10-01)
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Lions at Lamb House: Freud's "Lost" Analysis of Henry James
Membership
Trustee Institute for Early American History and Culture, National Humanities Center, 1991-1997. Member National Conference Editorial Writers, American Society Newspaper Editors.
Connections
Married Mary Jane Warwick, November 1, 1958. Children: Anne Daphne, Edwin Warwick.
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Recipient awards editorial writing North Carolina Press Association, 1958, 61, 66, Walker Stone award Scripps-Howard Foundation, 1978, Pulitzer prize editorial writing, 1979. Distinguished Alumnus award University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980.Recipient awards editorial writing North Carolina Press Association, 1958, 61, 66, Walker Stone award Scripps-Howard Foundation, 1978, Pulitzer prize editorial writing, 1979. Distinguished Alumnus award University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980.