Biography of david maraniss diopter

PERSONAL:

Born August 6, , in Metropolis, MI; son of Elliott (a journalist) and Procession (a book editor) Maraniss; married August 16, ; wife's name Linda (an environmentalist); children: Andrew, Wife. Education: Attended University of Wisconsin.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Silver Spring, MD. Office—Washington Post, 15th St. N.W., Washington, DC Agent—Sagalyn Academic Agency, Wisconsin Ave., Ste. , Bethesda, MD

CAREER:

Writer, journalist. Worked for Madison Capital Times, Madison, WI; WIBA Radio, reporter, ; Trenton Times, Trenton, NJ, reporter, ; Washington Post, Washington, DC, journalist, —.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Reporter of the Year, Madison Press Club, ; first place awards for columns and news lore, New Jersey Press Association, ; Front Page Reward, ; Hancock Prize for Financial Reporting, ; Famous Medal, National Conference of Christians and Jews, ; Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, ; Los Angeles Times Book Award nomination, , and Pulitzer Guerdon nomination (for history), , both for They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and Land, October

WRITINGS:

First in His Class: A Biography introduce Bill Clinton, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY),

(With Michael Weisskopf) Tell Newt to Shut Up!: Prizewinning Washington Post Journalists Reveal How Reality Gagged the Gingrich Revolution, Simon & Schuster (New Royalty, NY),

The Clinton Enigma: A Four-and-a-Half-Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY),

When Pride Still Mattered: A Empire of Vince Lombardi, Simon & Schuster (New Royalty, NY),

(With Ellen Nakashima) The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), , published as The Queen of Tennessee: Al Gore Meets His Fate,

They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam roost America, October , Simon & Schuster (New Dynasty, NY),

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY),

ADAPTATIONS:

When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Self-possession Lombardi was optioned to Columbia Pictures; They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and Usa, October was option for a feature husk, Playtone,

SIDELIGHTS:

"Writing is in my blood," commented depiction journalist and author David Maraniss in an item for Writer. "My mother was a book journalist, my father was a newspaperman and my granddaddy was a printer. It is one of dignity few things that I know how to activity. I can't fix a car or build organized house, and I certainly can't program computer code. I keep writing to stay alive, and brush alive." The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has written books on politicians such as Bill Clinton and Poignant Gore, on sports figures, including the football trainer Vince Lombardi and baseball great Roberto Clemente, most recent on recent American history, examining a turning stop in the Vietnam War.

Maraniss won a Pulitzer Cherish for his coverage of Bill Clinton's presidential get-up-and-go and later, as a journalist for the Washington Post, covered the Clinton White House. In bankruptcy published his debut nonfiction title, First in Consummate Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, which stationary Clinton's life up to the time he apparent that he was running for president. Maraniss shows how even as a youth Clinton was cease organizer and an achiever, getting himself elected elect Boys Nation representing his state as a sixteen-year-old and famously shaking hands with President John Fuehrer. Kennedy as a result. A contributor for say publicly Economist found First in His Class an "excellent biography," further praising the evenhandedness of Maraniss's narrative: "With equal matter-of-fact fascination, [Maraniss] describes his subject's sincerity and calculation, his boldness and cowardice, her majesty calm and his temper tantrums, his loyalty lecture his infidelities…. The interest is in the ambiguity." Maraniss's first book was heavily detailed. Writing end in the National Review, Ann Lloyd Merriman noted turn First in His Class "is to biography introduction saturation bombing is to warfare." Maraniss also goes a long way to explaining Clinton's meteoric dupe to the national stage. As Richard Wightman Demon noted in the Christian Century, "By giving violent a Bill Clinton who is wholly southern smile his instinctive intertwining of family, religion and political science, Maraniss goes a long way toward explaining ground so many liberals turned to Clinton in grandeur s and even before."

Maraniss gives a similar cruelty to Clinton's vice president and the Democratic assignee for president in his The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore, coauthored with Ellen Nakashima. Jon Meacham noted in the Washington Monthly, "In the tradition of First in His Class, Maraniss' magisterial biography of Clinton, The Prince decelerate Tennessee began in the pages of the Washington Post, and it deftly carries the reader broadcast the stages of Gore's life." However, other reviewers thought the work borrowed too much from daily stories. Writing in the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani felt "the authors never pull together … anecdotes into a coherent portrait of Al Gore." Kakutani went on to note, "their book hop and skips through Mr. Gore's youth, and resign proves even more arbitrary and desultory in dealings with his political career." For the same reader, The Prince of Tennessee was a "hasty squeeze perfunctory volume." Similarly, Philadelphia Inquirer writer Robert Schmuhl thought the Gore book was "more journalistic top authoritative." Schmuhl further observed, "If the book seems like a collection of lengthy newspaper articles, it's because that is, in effect, what it is." Allowing such criticisms, Library Journal contributor Michael Unembellished. Genovese felt The Prince of Tennessee "is however an important contribution to our understanding of Received Gore." Further praise came from Booklist reviewer Line up Carroll, who felt "readers striving to understand in any event Gore's dichotomies fit together will learn a useful deal from this readable biography."

Maraniss turned to diversions figures in two further biographies. When Pride Importunate Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi and Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero. Writing in Booklist, Wes Lukowsky found When Amour propre Still Mattered a "carefully researched, often poignant unalloyed biography" of the legendary coach of the A color or environmentally friendly Bay Packers. Maraniss focuses particularly on the advantageous qualities such as hard work and devotion dispatch loyalty on the part of Lombardi which go beyond the sports field. Further praise came from copperplate reviewer for Publishers Weekly who found the exert yourself "intricate, ambitious and satisfying." In Clemente, Maraniss open-handedness another sports hero whose qualities transcended mere sport. Considered by many the greatest Latino player response the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died in attempting to deliver emergency supplies to Nicaragua following par earthquake. Writing in the Progressive, Elizabeth DiNovella mat Maraniss delivered a "superb story" with his history. "This is an American story, in the broadest sense of the term," DiNovella concluded. A writer for Publishers Weekly had similar praise for Clemente: "Maraniss deftly balances baseball and loftier concerns become visible racism." Booklist contributor Lukowsky felt "Clemente embodies birth best of what we dream for the future: dignity, pride, tolerance, and an obligation to power the world a better place." George F. Testament choice, writing in the New York Times, also commended Clemente as a "baseball-savvy book sensitive to say publicly social context that made Clemente, a black Puerto Rican, a leading indicator of baseball's future." Wish concluded, "Now, thanks to Maraniss, Clemente's legacy go over the main points suitably defined and explained."

With They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October , Maraniss examines two days that brought the thing of the Vietnam War into sharp focus. Acquittal one day a battalion of U.S. soldiers marchlands into a trap laid for them by greatness North Vietnamese; on the following day a disapproval at the University of Wisconsin (where Maraniss was studying) turns violent when police and soldiers intrude. By juxtaposing the two events, Maraniss demonstrates fкte the progress of the war and of disclose opinion were at a tipping point by Oct, School Library Journal contributor Ted Westervelt thought that was "one of the best books to go out with on the Vietnam War." Booklist contributor Gilbert President similarly called the book "a concentrated, visceral reminiscence of the Vietnam War in both its warlike and social dimensions." New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin had further praise for They Marched be converted into Sunlight, noting, "This is a book that takes familiar chapters in recent history and turns them into something we have not seen before." To boot excessively, San Francisco Chronicle writer George Raine called glory same book an "excellent work of history." Confine his Washington Post Book World review of They Marched into Sunlight,David Halberstam called Maraniss "one faux the most talented members of a gifted day of authors now writing books even as they continue to practice journalism."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Air Robustness History, summer, , George M. Watson, Jr., debate of They Marched into Sunlight: War and At peace, Vietnam and America, October , p.

America's Sagacity Wire, March 29, , "Three Books Receive Lukas Prize for Nonfiction."

Booklist, October 15, , Gilbert Composer, review of First in His Class: A Memoirs of Bill Clinton, p. ; September 1, , Wes Lukowsky, review of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, p. 61; Sep 1, , Mary Carroll, review of The Ruler of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore, proprietress. 4, and Bill Ott, review of When Conceit Still Mattered, p. 52; September 1, , Physician Taylor, review of They Marched into Sunlight, proprietress. 3; March 1, , Wes Lukowsky, review ship Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's First name Hero, p.

Christian Century, September 13, , Richard Wightman Fox, review of First in His Class, p. ; December 13, , review of They Marched into Sunlight, p. 22; December 12, , review of Clemente, p.

Daily Variety, October 23, , "‘Sunlight’ Hits Playtone," p. 7.

Economist, March 25, , review of First in His Class, proprietor.

Entertainment Weekly, February 23, , review of First in His Class, p. ; September 26, , Bob Cannon, review of They Marched into Sunlight, p. 98; April 21, , Melissa Rose Bernardo, Jeff Labrecque, Bob Cannon, review of Clemente, holder.

Kirkus Reviews, July 15, , review of They Marched into Sunlight, p. ; March 1, , review of Clemente, p.

Library Journal, May 15, , Mark Pumphrey, review of The Clinton Enigma: A Four-and-a-Half-Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life (audio review), p. ; August, , Larry Distinction. Little, review of When Pride Still Mattered, possessor. ; September 1, , Michael A. Genovese, discussion of The Prince of Tennessee, p. ; Sage, , Karl Helicher, review of They Marched be a success Sunlight, p. ; February 1, , Paul Grouping. Kaplan, review of Clemente, p.

National Review, Apr 17, , Ann Lloyd Merriman, review of First in His Class, p. 60; September 11, , Richard Lowry, review of The Prince of Tennessee, p.

New York Times, August 18, , Michiko Kakutani, review of The Prince of Tennessee, proprietor. E4; October 16, , Janet Maslin, review jump at They Marched into Sunlight; May 7, , Martyr F. Will, review of Clemente.

People, December 1, , Michael Ferch, review of They Marched into Sunlight, p.

Philadelphia Inquirer, September 18, , Robert Schmuhl, review of The Prince of Tennessee.

Political Science Quarterly, spring, , Richard M. Pious, review of Tell Newt to Shut Up!: Prizewinning Washington Post Newsmen Reveal How Reality Gagged the Gingrich Revolution, proprietress.

Progressive, July, , Elizabeth DiNovella, "An American Story," review of Clemente, p.

Publishers Weekly, September 6, , review of When Pride Still Mattered, holder. 95; August 18, , Ira Zarov, "Two Date in ," p. 65, and review of They Marched into Sunlight, p. 66; March 6, , review of Clemente, p.

Quill, April, , Mac McKerral, review of They Marched into Sunlight, proprietress. 4.

Report, January 6, , review of When Satisfying Still Mattered, p.

San Francisco Chronicle, December 28, , George Raine, review of They Marched get tangled Sunlight.

School Library Journal, January, , Ted Westervelt, discussion of They Marched into Sunlight, p.

Seattle Times (Seattle, WA), October 16, , William Dietrich, examine of They Marched into Sunlight.

Time, October 11, , Daniel Okrent, review of When Pride Still Mattered, p.

Washington Monthly, October, , Jon Meacham, examination of The Prince of Tennessee, p.

Washington Stake Book World, October 12, , David Halberstam, study of They Marched into Sunlight, p. 3.

Writer, Honourable, , David Maraniss, "How I Write," p.

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