Clarence Page, a Pulitzer Prizewinning op/ed columnist and editorial board member for the Chicago Tribune, has been a columnist for the Tribune since 1984, starting out as a local and city writer. He originally joined the Tribune in 1969, upon graduation from Ohio University with a B.S. in Journalism. He quickly moved up the ranks, leading to syndication by Tribune Media Services, in over 150 newspapers, by 1987. Page¹s columns now appear in the Tribune on Sunday and Wednesday, broaching hot topics like the presidential and high profile senatorial candidacies, among other pressing domestic and international issues.

Currently, Page resides in Washington D.C., where he serves regularly as a news analyst for ABC News' This Week, and as an occasional panelist on The McLaughlin Group, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. In his spare time, he also publishes freelance articles in Chicago Magazine, New York Newsday and The Wallstreet Journal, among others. In 1996, he published a book entitled, Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity. Page was inducted into the Journalism Hall of Fame in 1992.