This guy ended up taking a job as a reporter and feature writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, in order to support himself while taking PhD classes at the University of Chicago, but left school when he was given the retiring Eleanor Keane's job in 1967, a job he would have until his 2013 death. He would be the first member of his profession to win a Pulitzer Prize, a profession he had dabbled in with an article about Fellini's La Dolce Vita in an October 1961 edition of The Daily Illini.
Roger Ebert