Another Pulitzer winner killed in crash
Doug Marlette, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, was killed in a car crash near Holly Springs Thursday. The editorial cartoonist for the Tulsa World was on his way to a high school theatre workshop in Oxford when the accident occurred. Marlette, who lived for a time in Laurel as a child, is the second Pulitzer-winner with Mississippi ties to die in an automobile crash in the span of a few months. Author and reporter David Halberstam, who lived and worked in West Point for about a year in the 1950s, was killed in a San Francisco accident in April.
The Tulsa World has a dedicated page on Marlette, including a slide show and 2006 profile.