David Manariss
David Maraniss was born August 6, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan
and lived in several cities during his early childhood,
including Detroit, Cleveland, New York, and Bettendorf, Iowa. When he was eight, his family settled in Madison, Wisconsin
where he lived for the rest of his school years, attending
Madison West High and the University of Wisconsin. His
journalism career began in college when he covered high
school sports and student antiwar protests for the Madison
Capital Times. He turned to radio in 1972 covering City Hall
for WIBA, and was named Newsman of the Year by the Madison
Press Club a year later. In 1975, he moved to Trenton, New
Jersey where he covered state and national politics for the
Trenton Times. In 1976, he won two New Jersey Press
Association first prize awards for column writing and
coverage of a prison riot. Maraniss began his career at The Washington Post in 1977. He
covered Maryland politics for two years then became Maryland
editor, deputy Metro editor and Metro editor. In 1983, he
returned to reporting and won The Newspaper Guild Front Page
Award for 'The Committee', a year-long series on the House
Energy and Commerce Committee. He moved to Austin, Texas in
1985 and served as the Post's Southwest Bureau Chief for
seven years covering the region as well as national politics
and sociology. In 1989, Maraniss and Rick Atkinson were
awarded the Hancock Prize for 'The $150 Billion
Catastrophe', their series on the savings and loan scandal.
In 1990 Maraniss won The Gold Medal of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews for 'Hard Choices in Black
and White', his series on integration in American institutions. Maraniss moved back to Washington in 1993. For his articles
on Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign, he
won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He is
the author of First in His Class: A Biography of Bill
Clinton, Tell Newt To Shut Up (with Michael Weisskopf), The
Clinton Enigma and When Pride Still Mattered : A Life of
Vince Lombardi. He is currently writer-at-large on the national staff the
Washington Post. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife
Linda. They have two grown children.
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Series
Books:Clemente, April 2006
Hardcover
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