Lenoir Chambers
Lenoir Chambers was a writer, biographer and newspaper editor. In 1960, as editor of The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for his series of editorials in favor of school desegregation, especially in Virginia. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, he was elected to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame in 1991.
Mr. Chambers authored Stonewall Jackson, a two-volume biography of the Civil War general, and Salt Water & Printer's Ink: Norfolk and Its Newspapers, a history of the newspaper industry in Norfolk.
As a young man in World War I, he served in 52nd Infantry, Sixth Division, American Expeditionary Forces.
