University of Kansas. William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information. (compiler)

William Allen White was born at Emporia, Kansas, on February 10, 1868, to Dr. Allen White and Mary Ann (Hatten) White. White attended the College of Emporia, and then the University of Kansas. He entered newspaper work, first in El Dorado, and later with the Kansas City Journal and the Kansas City Star . On April 27, 1893, he married Sallie Moss Lindsay of Kansas City.

In 1895, the Whites moved to Emporia, Kansas, where White purchased the Emporia Gazette . The Gazette soon gained national prominence for White's grass roots social and political editorials, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. White also wrote many articles and books, and was influential in state and national politics.

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