Madeleine Blais

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Madeleine Blais is a United States journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department. As a reporter for the 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 (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.

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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 Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave