with David McKay. McKay acquired Charterhouse in 1973 when Kluger left publishing to become a full-time writer. Kluger has written books of fiction and social history. He is the author of six novels (and two others with his wife, Phyllis). Two of his books were National Book Award finalists, Simple Justice and The Paper (a history of the Herald Tribune). His historical study of the American cigarette business, Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. In 2011, Kluger published The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America. In 2006, Kluger published Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea, an extended investigation of how the current territory of the United States was amassed. The book received mixed reviews, alternately complimenting its detailed insights into the under-reported history of this issue, and criticizing the author's alleged biases, errors, inferences and presumptions, and allegedly verbose writing style. Politics Kluger's writing has been described as liberal, and/or emphasizing racial-injustice perspectives. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Bibliography Non-fiction Simple Justice: A History of Brown v. Board of Education & Black America's Struggle for Equality (1976) The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune (1986) Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (1996), 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea (2007) The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America (2011) Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press (2016) Fiction When the Bough Breaks (1964) National Anthem (1969) Members of the Tribe (1978) Star Witness (1979) Un-American Activities (1982) The Sheriff of Nottingham (1992), co-authored with Phyllis Kluger Good Goods (1982) Royal Poinciana (1987) (under pseudonym Thea Coy Douglass) Beethoven's Tenth (2018) References Sources Richard Kluger: Biographical Sketch - The writings of Richard Kluger Author Spotlight: Richard Kluger at Random House External links Richard Kluger Papers (MS 1443). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1934 births Living people American male journalists Journalists from New York City American tax resisters Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners People