- Born: 1956
A teacher at the Columbia School of Journalism, Dale Maharidge is an author who has written for newspapers and magazines, and has published several books. Newspapers and magazines for which he's written include the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Sacramento Bee, Rolling Stone, George, The Nation and Mother Jones.
Maharidge's first book, Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, so inspired musician Bruce Springsteen, that he wrote two songs and, in 1996, when the book was reissued, Springsteen wrote an introduction. Maharidge won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for his second book, And Their Children After Them.
A graduate of Cleveland State University, he was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2004, Maharidge held a Yaddo artist's residency.
Most Famous Works
- Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass (1985)
- And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South (1989)
- Yosemite: A Landscape of Life (1990)
- The Last Great American Hobo (1993)
- The Coming White Minority: California, Multiculturalism & the Nation's Future (1996)
- Homeland (2004)
- Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town (2005)
