Philip P. Kerby

Philip P. Kerby (1911-1993) was an American editorial writer who worked for the Los Angeles Times from 1971 to 1985. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1976.

With only a high school education, Kerby was "regarded as highly self-educated and extremely bright". Otis Chandler said to Kerby when he won the Pulitzer, "You have raised the intellectual level of this newspaper". His specialty was criminal justice, governmental censorship, and secrecy.