Awards & Winners

Madeleine Blais

Madeleine Blais is a United States journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department. As a reporter for The Miami Herald, Blais earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1980 for "Zepp's Last Stand", a story about a self-declared pacifist and subsequently dishonorably discharged World War I veteran. Blais has worked at The Boston Globe, The Trenton Times and The Miami Herald. 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. She is from Amherst, Massachusetts.

Awards by Madeleine Blais

Check all the awards nominated and won by Madeleine Blais.

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction In these girls, hope is a muscle

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

1980


Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
(For 'Zepp's Last Stand.')

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
For \"Zepp's Last Stand.\"