He worked for the Murray (Ky) Ledger and Times and the Nashville Tennessean before coming to the Courier Journal-Louisville Times in 1957 as a staff writer and photographer. He also did free lance writing for the Saturday Evening Post, Time, and Life magazines on such topics as eastern Kentucky strip mining, and the War on Poverty. In 1967, he contributed to a Courier-Journal series on strip mining which won a Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for "PFC Gibson Comes Home," an article, concerning the death of a Knott County, Kentucky soldier in Vietnam. Other Appalachian writings include "The People of Cumberland Gap" for National Geographic (11-71), and his book, Stinking Creek (1967), portraying life in the Stinking Creek area of Knox County, Kentucky.
From the description of Papers 1945-1975. (Berea College). WorldCat record id: 50158854
