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Mike Pride is a New Hampshire author and historian, as well as the former editor of the Concord Monitor of Concord, New Hampshire. He is the author or co-author of several books on the Civil War and WW2.
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Journalism
A lifelong journalist, Pride joined the Concord Monitor as the managing editor in 1978, and became editor after 5 years. Due to New Hampshire's early primary and the candidates that make the rounds in the state, the Monitor has a significant national exposure. As a journalist, he won a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University (1985), and was named National Press Foundations Editor of the Year Award in 1987. He was also a member of the Pulitzer Prize board for 9 years, ending as co-chair.
On July 1, 2014, he was named the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Author
He is the co-editor, with Felice Belman, of The New Hampshire Century: Concord Monitor Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped It (2001).
He is the co-author, with Mark Travis, of My Brave Boys: To War With Colonel Cross and the Fighting Fifth (2001).
He is the co-author, with Steve Raymond, of Too Dead to Die: A Memoir of Bataan and Beyond (2006).
He is the co-author, with Meg Heckman, of We Went to War: New Hampshire Remembers (2008).
He is the author of Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union (2012).
He is a former contributor to Brill's Content.