Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge is the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them , and twelve other books. Among them is Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass , which inspired Bruce Springsteen to write the song "Youngstown." His most recent nonfiction book is Fucked at Birth , and his novel Burn Coast was published in 2022 . He has written for the Nation, Smithsonian, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone , and others. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University...See more

Dale Maharidge is the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them , and twelve other books. Among them is Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass , which inspired Bruce Springsteen to write the song "Youngstown." His most recent nonfiction book is Fucked at Birth , and his novel Burn Coast was published in 2022 . He has written for the Nation, Smithsonian, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone , and others. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. See less