About Vance Trimble
Vance Henry Trimble was an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in recognition of his exposé of nepotism and payroll abuse in the U.S. Congress. Trimble worked in the newspaper business for over fifty years. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1974. He published numerous books after his retirement. As a result of his work, Trimble was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington coverage, and the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award – referred to as the "triple crown". His secret was "We all won Pulitzer Prizes this week." Trimble constructed a monument to his wife after her death, dubbed the Oakwood Singing Tower, where she was buried in Wewoka. Trimble and his wife donated $25,000 to the Wewoka Public Library for an expansion to hold approximately 5,000 books being donated from the couple's personal library.
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