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Brent Staples, the New York Times editorial writer who won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize last week, grew up in Chester, the second oldest in a working-class family of nine children. His father was a truck driver, his mother a homemaker. He has written about the chaos of moving seven times before eighth grade, when his parents separated or reconciled, or when the landlord demanded past-due rent.
