Writing Awards
- Associated Press Red Smith Award, 2004.
- International Boxing Hall of Fame, 2002
- Boxing Writers Association of America A.J. Liebling Award, 1996
Whenever American journalists are informally or formally polled to choose the greatest columnists of all time, Jimmy Cannon is almost invariably voted the best sportswriter, and usually ranks near the top of any list of newspapermen in all categories.
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“...I don’t have an inner drive to do as well as anybody else ... I have a great pleasure in writing and part of that is political and part of that is I’m surprised that I’ve done as well as I have. I really am just surprised.”
—Grace Paley (b. 1922)