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Article: On the road without a Pulitzer. (travel writers)
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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In the spring of 1990 I flew to Los Angeles to attend my first newspaper travel editors' meeting. I had become a travel editor the previous August, and, though in the succeeding months I had put out a weekly section, written a regular column, even taken a few trips (traveling for the first time in my life in the complicated atmosphere of somebody else's expense), the visit to California seemed like the true imprimatur of my new status. If I was attending a travel editors' meeting, then I must be a travel editor.
My immense satisfaction was based on the fact that this was something I had been working toward since college. Between my junior and senior years, craving ...