Dan Zevin andJerry Zezima : University of Dayton, Ohio

Wednesday October 30, 2013

Dan Zevin andJerry Zezima

AUTHOR-PHOTO-FINAL-320x400 Dan Zevin's "laugh-eliciting" pieces in The New York Times and Jerry Zezima's conversational, whimsical columns in The Advocate (Stamford, Conn.) took first-place honors in humor writing in large and small newspapers, respectively, at the 2014 annual column contest sponsored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

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