David Maraniss

Born in Detroit, David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. Maraniss won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his reportage on Bill Clinton and was part of a Post team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech tragedy. His book on the Vietnam War, They Marched into Sunlight, was a Pulitzer finalist. He is author of First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton; Rome 1960: The Olympics that Stirred the World; Barack Obama: The Story; Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero; and When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi which was hailed by Sports Illustrated as "maybe the best sports biography ever published." He lives in Washington, DC and Madison, Wisconsin.