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Elliot G Jaspin

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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Journalist

Name
  
Elliot Jaspin


Spouse(s)
  
Janet Gail Thomas

Occupation
  
Journalist

Education
  
Colby College

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Born
  
May 27, 1946 (
1946-05-27
)
Mineola, New York

Books
  
Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Elliot G. Jaspin (born May 27, 1946) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.

Jaspin graduated from Baldwin Senior High School in 1964 and Colby College in 1969.

While writing for the Pottsville, Pennsylvania Republican & Herald, he won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with Gilbert M. Gaul for stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.

In the same year, Jaspin won a Scripps Howard Foundation Edward J. Meeman Award and an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award.

Published works

  • Jaspin, Elliot (2006). Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03636-8. 
  • References

    Elliot G. Jaspin Wikipedia