David K. Shipler is an American

United States

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 author who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in another category.-1960s:...

 in 1987

1987 Pulitzer Prize

-Journalism:*Public service: Pittsburgh Press**"For reporting by Andrew Schneider and Matthew Brelis which revealed the inadequacy of the FAA's medical screening of airline pilots and led to significant reforms."...

 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, written by David K. Shipler and published by Times Books in 1986, won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....

. He also wrote the book The Working Poor: Invisible in America

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

The Working Poor: Invisible in America is a 2004 book written by Pulitzer Prize winner, David K. Shipler. From talking with real individuals who are considered as the working poor, Shipler filled this book with anecdotes and life stories of them...

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Born in Chatham, New Jersey

Chatham, New Jersey

Chatham refers to two neighboring municipalities in Morris County, New Jersey – Chatham Borough and Chatham Township. The two are separate municipalities, the first a municipality that was settled in 1710 as a colonial English village in the Province of New Jersey...

, he is an alumnus of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

  and served on the college's board of trustees from 1993 to 2003.
As a journalist for the New York Times he was their correspondent in Moscow and then Israel. At the end of his period in Israel he was reprimanded by the director of the Israeli government's press office for breaking military censorship

Censorship in Israel

Laws on censorship in Israel are based on British emergency regulations from 1945 that apply to domestic media, foreign newspapers and wire service transmissions from or through Israel....

 rules; publishing a report about a bus hijacking

Kav 300 affair

The Bus 300 affair , also known as Kav 300 affair, was an affair in which Shin Bet members executed two Palestinian bus hijackers, immediately after the hostage crises incident ended and the two militants were captured....

after which two captured hijackers were killed.