David Maraniss

David Maraniss (born 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. As a reporter for the Washington Post he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about the life and career of candidate Bill Clinton in the 1992 campaign for the U.S. presidency.

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. Now an associate editor at the Post, he joined that paper in 1977 and has served it in various capacities since.

Maraniss's most recent book, published in July,2008, Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World. He also published in April, 2006, the Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero. Previous books include They Marched into Sunlight, First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, Tell Newt To Shut Up (co-authored with Michael Weisskopf), The Clinton Enigma, and When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi. The Washington Post recently assigned him the job of biographer for their coverage of presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama in spite of Maraniss' sympathies with the Green Bay Packers--the arch-rivals of Obama's hometown Chicago Bears. .

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

External links

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802368.html

• David's Web site
• Interview on They Marched into Sunlight at the Pritzker Military Library