Dale Maharidge is the author of ten books, one of which won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. His first book, Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, inspired Bruce Springsteen to write two songs. His second book, And Their Children After Them, won the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and has written for Rolling Stone, George magazine, The Nation, Mother Jones, and the New York Times, among others. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has had artistic residencies at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He is a tenured professor at the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University.
