Asheville newspaper glory days

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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ROBERT LATHAN, 56, EDITOR IN ASHEVILLE; Newspaper Man of Carolinas 37 Years and a Pulitzer Prize Winner Is Dead

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

September 27, 1937, Monday

Page 21, 266 words

Robert Lathan, editor of The Asheville Citizen, died at his home in Albermarle Park here tonight after a brief illness. His age was 56. Mr. Lathan, who had served as editor of The Citizen since 1927, won the Pulitzer Prize for the best editorial in the United States in 1924.