Lynn Louis Heinzerling (October 23, 1906 – November 21, 1983) was an American correspondent for the Associated Press, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Congo crisis in 1961.[1][2]
In 1957, Heinzerling was named the head of the Johannesburg bureau. Four years later, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Congo crisis and other African developments. In 1963, he settled in Ohio to head the local bureau of the Associated Press. But in the last years of his career, Heinzerling returned to Africa as an international correspondent. After retiring in the United States in 1971, he moved to Elyria, where he died twelve years later. He was inducted posthumously into the Cleveland journalism hall of fame.[2][4] Lynn was a father to Larry Heinzerling and Lynn Heinzerling Jr. He married Agnes Dengate.
