Ben Sargent

1982 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning

Ben Sargent received the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 in editorial cartooning while at the Austin American-Statesman.

Sargent began his journalism career in his hometown of Amarillo while a student at Amarillo College. He then attended the University of Texas and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1970.

Early in his journalism career, he was a reporter with the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Long News Service, the Austin American-Statesman and the UPI.

He was the Austin American-Statesman’s political cartoonist from 1974 until his retirement in 2009.

Source: The Complete Marquis Who’s Who Biographies.