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White, William Allen
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William Allen White, Journalist and author, was born February 10, 1868 in Emporia, Kansas and died January 29, 1944 in Emporia, Kansas.
White attended the College of Emporia and the University of Kansas. He worked as an editorial writer for the Kansas City Star. Shortly after his marriage to Sally Moss Lindsay the couple moved to Emporia in 1895 and White bought the Emporia Gazette. Here he would earn the nickname "The Sage of Emporia."
White's editorial "To an Anxious Friend," a statement for free speech, earned him the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. White died January 29, 1944, in Emporia, after completing a chapter in his autobiography. William Lindsay completed his father's autobiography, which earned his second Pulitzer Prize.
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