James Grifing Lucas (June 24, 1915 – July 22, 1971) was a war correspondent for Scripps-Howard Newspapers who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting[1] "for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent."
Born in Checotah, Oklahoma, the son of Jim Bob Lucas, Jr. and Effie Lincoln Griffing, he began his journalism career as the editor of his high school newspaper.
Lucas attended the University of Missouri before going to work for the Muskogee Phoenix as a feature writer.
[4] Lucas also was awarded a Bronze Star and a Presidential Unit Citation for his Marine service.
He remained single all his life and died of abdominal cancer in Washington, DC.