Madeleine Blais

American journalist

Madeleine Blais

Born	1946 (age 77–78)
Education	College of New Rochelle
Occupation(s)	Journalist, professor
Spouse	John Katzenbach
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing (1980)

Madeleine Blais (born 1946) is an American journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department.^[1] As a reporter for the Miami Herald, Blais earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1980 for "Zepp's Last Stand",^[2] a story about a self-declared pacifist and subsequently dishonorably discharged World War I veteran. Blais has worked at The Boston Globe (1971–1972), The Trenton Times (1974–1976) and the Miami Herald (1979–1987).^[3] She has also published articles in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Northeast Magazine in the Hartford Courant, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, Nieman Reports, the Detroit Free Press and the San Jose Mercury News.^[1] She is from Amherst, Massachusetts.

Personal life

She graduated from the College of New Rochelle in 1969. While there, she roomed with Mercedes Ruehl and Suzanne Hampton. She is married to author John Katzenbach.^[4]

Works

The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism. University of Massachusetts Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-87023-942-7.
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-87113-572-8
Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family. Grove Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8021-3892-7.^[5]
David Garlock, ed. (2003). "Zepp's Last Stand". Pulitzer Prize feature stories: Americas best writing, 1979–2003. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-8138-2545-8.
Ellen Sussman, ed. (2007). "The Beard". Bad girls: 26 writers misbehave. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06463-6.
To the New Owners. Atlantic Monthly Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0802127877.

References

^ ^a ^b "UMASS Journalism - Full time faculty". Archived from the original on 2008-07-24.
^ "1980 Winners and Finalists". Columbia University.
^ Garner, Dwight (2017-07-11). "'To the New Owners,' About a Summer Place (Too) Well Loved". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
^ "Q&A: Maddy Blais Talks Martha's Vineyard, Writing, and Noticing Happiness". The National Book Review. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
^ Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Madeleine Blais to Give Distinguished Faculty Lecture at UMass Amherst Nov. 27 | Office of News & Media Relations | UMass Amherst Retrieved 2017-05-09.