Howard M. Norton was a Pulitzer-prize winning American journalist. He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on May 30, 1911. He grew up in Florida, and earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Florida in 1933. After graduation, he moved to Baltimore to work for the Baltimore Sun. A series of articles he wrote in the 1940s exposed fraud in the state unemployment compensation program, and the Baltimore Sun was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1947. Norton died in Wilmington, North Carolina, on March 12, 1994.