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Larry Price has received two Pulitzer prizes during his journalism career. Price was honored in 1981 for his spot news photography while a photojournalist at the Fort Worth-Star Telegram. He was honored again in 1985 for his feature photographs from Angola and El Salvador depicting their war-torn inhabitants while a photojournalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Price received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. He was a member of the The Daily Texan staff his senior year in college.
His journalism career has spanned more than two decades. After college, he joined the El Paso Times staff. He later worked on the news staff at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and later as assistant managing editor and associate editor. During that time, Price also was a visiting professor at UT.
In 1983, he left Fort Worth for The Philadelphia Inquirer to work as a photojournalist and then left to join the Baltimore Sun photography staff. He returned to The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1987 to become its director of photography and work at its Washington bureau.
Price also has received a Best Photographic Reporting award from the Overseas Press Club and has been honored at the World Press Photo Awards.
Source: The Complete Marquis Who's Who Biographies.