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Royce Howes
ROYCE BUCKNAM HOWES (1901-1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Born on January 3, 1901 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Howes moved to Detroit in 1927 and joined the Detroit Free Pre...view moreROYCE BUCKNAM HOWES (1901-1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Born on January 3, 1901 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Howes moved to Detroit in 1927 and joined the Detroit Free Press, where he remained for 39 years, until his retirement as editorial director in 1966. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and received the Bronze Star. He was an editor for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. Howes received the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for an editorial published on July 16, 1954. Titled “An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly” concerned the cause of an unauthorized strike by a local of the United Automobile Workers’ union that idled 45,000 Chrysler workers. He also won the National Headliner Award for editorial writing. A close friend for many years of the prolific American poet, Edgar A. Guest, Howes served as Guest’s long-time editor and eventually as his biographer. In the 1930s and 1940s, he wrote and published numerous crime novels, many for the “Crime Club,” which were popular in the 1930s, including Death on the Bridge (1935), The Callao Clue (1936), Death Dupes a Lady (1937), Murder at Maneuvers (1938) and Night of the Garter Murder (1939). Howes died in Royal Oak, Michigan on March 18, 1973, aged 72.view less