Madeleine Blais

Madeleine Blais is a United States journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department.cite web | title=UMASS Journalism - Full time faculty | url=http://www.umass.edu/journal/UMAJournalism/facultyStaff/bios/blais_bio.html] As a reporter for the The Miami Herald, Blais earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1980 for "Zepp's Last Stand", [cite web | title=1980 Winners and Finalists | publisher=Columbia University | url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1980] 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). 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 Granby, Massachusetts.

Works

*"Zepp's Last Stand"
*"Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family" (2002), a memoir of her Irish-American single-parent upbringing,
*"In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle" (1995), the story of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes girl's high school basketball team, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in nonfiction
*"The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism" (1992), which includes profiles of Christine Falling, the Florida babysitter who murdered three children in her care, social activist Carol Fennelly and playwright Tennessee Williams.
*"The Beard" (2007), an essay in the anthology [http://www.badgirlsanthology.com Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave]

Personal

She graduated from The College of New Rochelle in 1969. She is married to author John Katzenbach.

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