In a three-decade career at The Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s Style section. He started writing a column for the Op-Ed page in 2005. And in 2009, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. The award cited his "eloquent columns on the 2008 presidential campaign that focus on the election of the first African-American president, showcasing graceful writing and grasp of the larger historic picture."
Robinson has written two books, "Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America" (2010) Transcript,Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race, published in 1999, and Last Dance in Havana: The Final Days of Fid el and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution, published in 2004.
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Robinson Wins Commentary Pulitzer
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson captured the prize for commentary for his writing about the campaign that led to Barack Obama's election.
Robinson said he did not wrestle with being a black journalist covering a black presidential candidate because "the great thing about a column is that you have a license to feel" and "I tried to allow myself to go with those feelings at times when it was appropriate."
