The same year that Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Old Man and the Sea,” business reporter Austin C. Wehrwein brought home a Pulitzer to The Milwaukee Journal.
That was in 1953. Wehrwein won the prize for international reporting, writing a 25-part series called “Canada’s New Century.” Wehrwein died of natural causes Tuesday at home in St. Paul, Minn. He was 92.
Wehrwein studied economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, also working journalism jobs. That included serving as The Milwaukee Journal’s university correspondent before graduation in 1937.