And Their Children after Them

by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

Pulitzer Prize · 1990 · Winner

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction	1990	Winner

About the Author

Dale Maharidge and Michael WilliamsonAmerican

Dale Maharidge (born 1956) is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction collaborations with photographer Michael Williamson, including Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass (1985), which inspired Bruce Springsteen songs, and And Their Children After Them (1989), winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Pulitzer.org. A professor of journalism at Columbia University, he has authored numerous books on working-class America and social issues.