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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 17, 1991                   TAG: 9104170205
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
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VETERAN REPORTER HOMER BIGART DIES

Homer Bigart, one of the most accomplished reporters in American journalism, died Tuesday at the Edgewood Center in Portsmouth, N.H., where he had been hospitalized for two months.

Bigart, who wrote for both The New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times, was 83. He died of cancer, his wife, Else, said.

He won most of the major national and local prizes in journalism. There was a Pulitzer Prize, and there was an uncommon second Pulitzer. Bigart reported during World War II, the Greek civil war, the Korean War and the turbulent years that followed, when he wrote about the civil-rights struggle in the United States.

All of his articles were written either for The Herald Tribune, where he worked from 1929 to 1955, or The New York Times, where he worked from 1955 until his retirement in 1972.

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