Donald kaul biography

Kaul received a bachelor's degree in 1958 from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in journalism in 1960.
Donald William Kaul was an American journalist known for his syndicated columns and contributions to The Des Moines Register and OtherWords.
The 1987 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Commentary.

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RAGBRAI started as a search for stories. Now, a founder’s daughter returns to find her own.

Rachel Kaul isn’t sure exactly what drew her father to cycling.

Sometimes the most obvious reality can be the hardest to see in all its detail, and Don Kaul and biking were like fish and water — one almost couldn’t function without the other.

He loved the physical aspect of riding; the air filling his lungs and his heart pumping. Biking made him feel more alive, he wrote. He enjoyed getting away by bicycle, too, bonding with his closest friends atop two wheels.

And, Rachel thinks, he was attracted to the focus that biking required, especially biking through Washington, D.C. Kaul, the Register's star columnist, wrote five or six pieces a week. He was cerebral, often lost in thought. But keeping your balance on two wheels — and avoiding cabs, people and other literal and metaphorical potholes — required a specific kind of concentration that got him out of his head and into his body. Present. Here. Now.

“What Salvation has done for Billy Graham, what Positive Thinking has done for Nor

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Barbara Bluhm-Kaul and Don Kaul are two of Chicago’s foremost collectors. Don is a life trustee at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, while Barbara is a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the civic committee for the city’s art fair, Expo Chicago. In 2015, Barbara served as the co-chair of MCA Chicago’s Benefit Art Auction, which had as the centerpiece the evening’s live auction a painting, titled Still-life With Wedding Portrait, by the acclaimed Chicago-based artist Kerry James Marshall that he made specifically for the event. “It really is amazing,” Barbara toldCrain’s Chicago Businessat the time of the work. It sold for $700,000. (Marshall’s current auction record, as of December 2019, is $21.1 million set at Sotheby’s New York in May 2018 when Sean “Diddy” Combs purchased it.)

Among one of the couple’s most treasured works is a 1964 six-square-inch color pencil sketch by Roy Lichtenstein, titled Study for Crying Girl. (The work is a study for his well-known enamel work from the same year currently held in the collection of the Milwaukee

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Donald Kaul

American journalist (1934 – 2018)

Donald William Kaul (December 25, 1934 – July 22, 2018)^[1] was an American journalist known for his syndicated columns and contributions to The Des Moines Register and OtherWords.

Education and career

Kaul received a bachelor's degree in 1958 from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in journalism in 1960. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1987^[2] and 1999,^[3] Kaul retired in 2000 after writing columns, mainly for The Des Moines Register, for more than 35 years. His columns and liberal views garnered him recognition in Iowa.^[4] In 2001, he resumed his column for OtherWords, a non-profit editorial service featuring progressive commentators. His last column appeared in 2017.

Kaul co-founded The Des Moines Register' annual, weeklong bike ride across Iowa, RAGBRAI. It began in 1973 with a column by Kaul, who launched the ride with John Karras, another Register writer.^[5]

Around 1963, Kaul began writing The Register’s “Over the Co