Former 'Berkshire Eagle' Editorial Writer Dies

By: Roger Linscott, a former Berkshire Eagle associate editor who won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, has died at age 88.

His daughter, Wendy, said Thursday that her father died of pneumonia Monday at the Kimball Farms Nursing Center in Lenox.

Linscott graduated from Harvard University in 1941. He joined the U.S. Navy and served on a destroyer during World War II as a lieutenant second grade. He later was hired at the then-named The Berkshire Evening Eagle.

Linscott won the Pulitzer Prize for 1972 editorials that the newspaper said illustrated "the wide range of subjects an editorial writer on a small paper must deal with."

He is survived by four daughters and four grandchildren. A private burial is scheduled for next week, with a public memorial service expected later.