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Bate was a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, gaining recognition for his biographical writings on John Keats in 1964 and Samuel Johnson in 1978. The Johnson biography also won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award...
...kind to bring us children into his life," said John Bate, a nephew...
...think he missed [teaching], he had mixed emotions about retiring," John Bate said. "Harvard was his life...
Even after retirement, Bate maintained close ties with the University and spent many days in the office he retained in Widener Library. "He went to Widener everyday," said John Bate. "He loved that library...
...second largest in the world, neck-and-neck with the ubiquitous Associated Press. Its correspondents--Walter Cronkite in Brussels, for example--reported for American newspapers from bureaus around the world. When bullets rang out on the streets of Dallas, UPI was the first to report that John F. Kennedy '40 had been shot--one reporter from UPI and one from AP had been riding in the car following Kennedy's and UPI managed to hang on to the car's only telephone, even as the AP reporter wrestled him to the ground. The good old days, you might say--good...