David Maraniss
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David Maraniss at the 2012 Texas Book Festival.
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Born | 1949 |
Notable awards | 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting |
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David Maraniss (born 1949) is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate-editor for The Washington Post.
He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 for his coverage of then-candidate Bill Clinton during the 1992 United States presidential election.
Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss received an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Spring commencement ceremony on May 16, 2014.
Career
Maraniss began his journalism career as a high school student in Madison, Wisconsin, where he covered antiwar protests and high school football for a local daily newspaper. He joined The Washington Post in 1977 and has served it in various capacities since. The Post assigned him the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama.[1]
Books
Maraniss has written or co-authored several books, in particular including biographies of politicians and sportspeople.
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- They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 (2003). For this book he was awarded the 2004 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.[2]
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- Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World (2008).
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Personal life
Maraniss and wife Linda live in Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin.
References
External links
- Official website
- Interview on They Marched into Sunlight at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- Living people
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- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- American journalist, 1940s birth stubs