Awards & Winners

Leon Dash

Date of Birth 16-March-1944
Place of Birth New Bedford
(Bristol County, Massachusetts)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist, Professor
Leon Dash is a professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A former reporter for the Washington Post, he is the author of Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America, which grew out of the eight-part Washington Post series for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.

Awards by Leon Dash

Check all the awards nominated and won by Leon Dash.

1995


Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
(For their profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with destructive cycles of poverty, illiteracy, crime and drug abuse.)

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
For their profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with destructive cycles of poverty, illiteracy, crime and drug abuse.

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
For his six-part series on teen-age pregnancy, which examined in compelling detail the complex realities behind a national problem.