Clay Bennett (born January 20, 1958) is an American editorial cartoonist. Currently drawing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Bennett is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Born in Clinton, South Carolina, Bennett graduated from the University of North Alabama in 1980. He briefly served as a staff artist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and then the Fayetteville (NC) Times before being offered the editorial cartooni...
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Clay Bennett (born January 20, 1958) is an American editorial cartoonist. Currently drawing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Bennett is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Born in Clinton, South Carolina, Bennett graduated from the University of North Alabama in 1980. He briefly served as a staff artist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and then the Fayetteville (NC) Times before being offered the editorial cartooning job at the St. Petersburg Times in 1981. After 13 years at the Times, Bennett was fired in 1994. While editorial page editor Phil Gailey denied the termination was politically motivated, many observers saw it as an attempt by the traditionally liberal newspaper to moderate its views and tone.
Bennett went on to serve as the editorial cartoonist for The Christian Science Monitor from 1997 to 2007. During that decade he was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize six times, receiving The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2002....
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