William Anthony Caldwell (December 5, 1906 – April 11, 1986)[2] was an American journalist and columnist who spent 48 years at The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey.
When he was eleven, his family moved to New Jersey[4] and he attended Hasbrouck Heights High School.
[5] His newspaper career began at age 15 when he became a part-time editor of the weekly Hasbrouck Heights Newsletter.
[6] By the time he graduated from high school in 1924, he had worked for the Associated Press as a clerk and part-time for the Hudson Dispatch of Union City, New Jersey.
Each column was exactly 85 lines long and he wrote about 12,000 of them until he retired in 1972, the year after he won the Pulitzer Prize.