David Maraniss

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David Maraniss : biography

1949 –

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.

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.

Personal life

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

Books

Maraniss has written or co-authored several books, in particular including biographies of politicians and sportspeople.

  • an account of the so-called Gingrich Revolution of ’94, co-authored with Michael Weisskopf
  • a biography of Al Gore co-authored with Ellen Nakashima (2001).
  • 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.
  • Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World (2008).