David Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

-winning journalist and author. As a reporter for The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award....

 for his stories about the life and career of candidate Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 in the 1992 campaign for the U.S. presidency

United States presidential election, 1992

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Maraniss began his journalism career as a high school student in Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

, where he covered antiwar protests and high school football for a local daily newspaper. An associate editor at the Post, he joined that paper in 1977 and has served it in various capacities since.

Maraniss's 2008 book was Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World

Rome 1960 (book)

Pulitzer Prize winner author David Maraniss has had his 478 page book published in 2008: Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World through publisher Simon & Schuster of New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney in July, 2008....

. He also published in 2006 Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, about Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente Walker was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children. Clemente played his entire 18-year baseball career with the Pittsburgh Pirates . He was awarded the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in...

. In 2004 he was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize is an annual award in the amount of $10,000 given to a book that exemplifies, "literary grace, a commitment to serious research and social concern.” The prize is given by the Nieman Foundation and by the Columbia University School of Journalism. The prize is named...

 forThey Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967

They Marched into Sunlight

They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 is a book written by Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author David Maraniss, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2004 and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize...

. Previous books include First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, Tell Newt To Shut Up (co-authored with Michael Weisskopf

Michael Weisskopf

Michael Weisskopf is a Polk Award-winning journalist, currently working as a senior correspondent for Time magazine. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1996 for the accounts he and David Maraniss gave of the activities in 1995 following the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994,...

), The Clinton Enigma, and When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi. The Post assigned him the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

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Maraniss and wife Linda live in Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin.

External links

• Official website
• Interview on They Marched into Sunlight at the Pritzker Military Library
  Pritzker Military Library
  The Pritzker Military Library is a research library for the study of military history in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded in 2003 by COL James N. Pritzker, IL ARNG to be a non-partisan institution for the study of "the citizen soldier as an essential element for the preservation of...