Edmund Duffy

Edmund Duffy
BornMarch 1, 1899
Jersey City, New Jersey
DiedSeptember 12, 1962
Manhattan
OccupationCartoonist
Employer(s)The Baltimore Sun (c1924-c1948)
Saturday Evening Post (c1948-c1962)
Known forThree Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
SpouseAnne Elizabeth Rector

Edmund Duffy (March 1, 1899 – September 12, 1962), was an American editorial cartoonist. He grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey, eventually moving to metropolitan areas. Duffy did not attend high school, but instead went into the Art Students League of New York.[1] Duffy's career took him to London, Paris, New York, and finally to Baltimore, where he spent the majority of his professional career working for The Baltimore Sun.

Duffy won three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning in 1931, 1934, and 1940. Duffy began working for the Baltimore Sun in 1924, when he was only about 25 years old, and he received high praise from the famous journalist H.L. Mencken.[2]

  1. ^ Fischer, Heinz Dietrich, and Erika J. Fischer. Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000: Journalists, Writers and Composers on Their Ways to the Coveted Awards. Walter de Gruyter, 2002.
  2. ^ Harrison, S.L. (1994). "The Scopes "Monkey Trial" Revisited: Mencken and the Editorial Art of Edmund Duffy". The Journal of American Culture. 17 (4): 55–63. doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.1994.t01-1-00055.x.