George Will

George F. Will (1941-) is a prominent U.S. columnist, author and commentator on politics and society, as well as an authority on baseball. Of generally conservative ideology, his writing is considered well-researched and noninflammatory, and evaluating ideas on their merits. He is syndicated in over 450 newspapes, and is a contributing editor and Sunday morning panelist for ABC News, and is a prominent columnist for Newsweek.

Before journalism, he taught political philosophy at Michigan State University and the University of Toronto, and worked on the Senate staff of Gordon Allott. He became a syndicated columnist in 1974, in the Writers' Group established by Katherine Graham and Bill Bradlee of the Washington Post. Prior to starting a column for Newsweek in 1976, he was Washington editor for National Review.

He won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, for his newspaper columns, a finalist citation in the Essays and Criticism category of the 1979 National Magazine Awards competition and a 1978 National Headliners Award for his "consistently outstanding special features columns" appearing in Newsweek. A column on New York City's finances earned him a 1980 Silurian Award for Editorial Writing. In January 1985, The Washington Journalism Review named Will "Best Writer, Any Subject." He was named among the 25 most influential Washington journalists by the National Journal in 1997

Education

• Trinity College (Hartford)
• Oxford University
• Princeton University