About Garry Trudeau
Garretson Beekman Trudeau is an American cartoonist best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip. The latter founded the Trudeau Institute at Saranac Lake, with which Garry Trudeau retains a connection. Trudeau won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1975, making him the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer. He is the great-grandson of Edward Livingston Trudeau, who created Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York. As an art major, Trudeau initially focused on painting, but soon discovered a greater interest in the graphic arts.
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