MURRAY KEMPTON- Bio, Family, Education, Net Worth, Editor

MURRAY KEMPTON BIOGRAPHY

Journalist Murray Kempton is well-known. His birthday is December 16, 1917, and Maryland is where he was born. The 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism was won by Murray, an all-star journalist. American origins can be traced back to Murray. Previously, he was employed by Rupert Murdoch at the New York Post.

MURRAY KEMPTON AGE

Kempton passed away on May 5, 1997, at an age of 79years.

MURRAY KEMPTON EDUCATION

He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1939. Kempton also earned multiple Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from several universities throughout his lifetime, including those from Grinnell College in 1973, Long Island University in 1987, Hofstra University in 1994, and Lewis and Clark College in 1994.

MURRAY KEMPTON MARRIAGE

Kempton had two wives, the first wife was Beverly Gary. They were blessed with one child namely Christopher Kempton. The second wife was called Mina Bluethenthal and they had four children namely Sally Ambler Kempton, David Llewellyn Kempton, Arthur Herbert Kempton, and James Murray Kempton Jr. d. 28 Nov 1971. After the passing of his second wife, Murray passed away from pancreatic cancer two years later.

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MURRAY KEMPTON FAMILY

The only child of stockbroker James Branson Kempton and Sally Ambler, Murray Kempton was born on December 16, 1917, in Baltimore, Maryland. James Branson Kempton passed away when Murray was just three years old.  Kempton worked as a copyboy at the Baltimore Evening Sun for H. L. Mencken. He enrolled at Johns Hopkins in 1935, where he served as the Johns Hopkins News-editor Letters in chief.

MURRAY KEMPTON CAREER

He joined the staff of the New York Post after completing his degree in 1939 and developed a reputation for a quietly elegant written style that featured long yet rhythmic sentences, a penchant for irony, and a light, almost intellectual sarcasm. He also briefly worked as a labor organizer. During World War II, he was a member of the American Army Air Forces and was stationed in the Philippines and New Guinea. In 1949, he returned to the New York Post, first as the labor editor and then as a columnist. In 1950, he received a Hillman Prize for his work in journalism

He also contributed to the New York City’s World-Telegram and Sun as well as its short-lived successor, the World Journal Tribune, which was created by joining the Telegram, the New York Herald-Tribune, and the New York Journal American. Murray said his youthful Communism farewell in his 1955 book Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties. He lived in Rome for a year between 1958 and 1959 thanks to a Fulbright Commission scholarship.

MURRAY KEMPTON EDITOR

He served as editor of The New Republic in the 1960s. In 1977, the New York Post was acquired by Rupert Murdoch, and he went back to work there. He started writing columns for the Long Island-based daily Newsday in 1981. Kempton also regularly contributed to The New York Review of Books, Esquire, CBS’s Spectrum radio opinion program, and National Review, the conservative publication whose editor, William F. Buckley, Jr., Kempton had cultivated a connection with during the course of their ideological conflict.

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Kempton had his quirks but was generally regarded as a modest, courtly man who was kind to friends and other journalists.

A video symbol for external content Interview with Kempton for Booknotes on July 3, 1994, on Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events
He never learned to drive and was frequently seen in New York City riding a bicycle while dressed in a three-piece suit. In television advertisements for the New York edition of Newsday, Kempton was depicted in that manner as he stopped his bicycle at an intersection and deadpanned, “I guess I’ve been around so long that people think they have to like me.”

MURRAY KEMPTON AWARD

Kempton’s 1950 articles on labor in the South earned him one of the inaugural Hillman Prizes. He was the author of The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York Against Lumumba Shakur, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award in the area of Contemporary Affairs.
He received a Pulitzer Prize in the category of “Commentary” in 1985 for his “wittily and perceptively analyzing public issues during a remarkable career.”
He was given the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College a few years later.

MURRAY KEMPTON NET WORTH

The estimated range of Murray Kempton’s net worth or income is $1 million to $2 million. His main line of work as a journalist has greatly increased his wealth.