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- Birth namePatrick Bruce Oliphant
- Pat Oliphant was born on July 24, 1935 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He was a writer, known for Choice Stakes (1974), A Snort History (1971) and A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant (2025). He was married to Susan Conway, Mary Ann Kuhn and Hendrika de Vries. He died on July 13, 2026 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- SpousesSusan Conway(1996 - December 3, 2025) (her death)Mary Ann Kuhn(1983 - 1994) (divorced)Hendrika de Vries(1958 - 1978) (divorced, 3 children)
- He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.
- He produces fine arts as well, including sketches of nudes and oils on canvas, along with sculptures in bronze.
- He is a famous political cartoonist. He has been internationally syndicated since 1965.
- He started out as a copy boy at a Adelaide newspaper. They noticed his talent for drawing, and made him a cartoonist. He put in 10 years there, and then got a job at the Denver Post. In 1975, he was hired away by the Washington Star, where he worked until that paper folded in 1981. He had a sufficiently prominent reputation to go independent soon afterward.
- He was cremated at Rivera Memorial Gardens in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Charlottesville, Virginia's Westminster Presbyterian Church hosted his memorial service five days after his cremation.
- Politics is very boring [nowadays]. The people are all the same now. They're all bastards now, but it's what's kept me going for so many years.
- [on why he has taken life-drawing classes throughout his life] You get into bad habits otherwise, with just cartoons. You have to keep yourself fresh that way. For anyone working in the figure, it's a necessary discipline.
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