About me
Cynthia Tucker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and the co-author, with Frye Gaillard, of a book of essays, “The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance.”
She has spent most of her career in newspapers, including 17 years as the editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since leaving the newspaper, she has been a college lecturer, and she is currently journalist-in-residence at the University of South Alabama.
Over the course of her career, Tucker has received numerous awards and honors. Her column was a finalist for the Pulitzer in the commentary category in 2004 and 2006 before winning the prestigious honor in 2007.
In 2006, she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists, and in 2011, she was inducted into NABJ’s Hall of Fame. She has also been inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor. In 2022, she was presented the Harper Lee Award as Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year. Tucker lives in Mobile.