Nick Kotz

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  As a reporter for the Des Moines Register and the Washington Post, and as a freelance writer, Nick Kotz has won many of journalism’s most important honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, and the first Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award.  His study of American military leadership won the National Magazine Award for public service.  His book WILD BLUE YONDER: MONEY, POLITICS, AND THE B-1 BOMBER won the Olive Branch Award.  JUDGMENT DAYS: LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., AND THE LAWS THAT CHANGED AMERICA is his fifth book examining American history and public policy.

  Kotz’s other books include: A PASSION FOR EQUALITY: GEORGE WILEY AND THE MOVEMENT (with Mary Lynn Kotz); LET THEM EAT PROMISES: THE POLITICS OF HUNGER; and THE UNIONS (with Haynes Johnson).

  During his time as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the American University School of Communications, Kotz was honored as the university’s outstanding adjunct professor.  His teaching includes a semester as Senior Journalist in Residence at Duke University.

  A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Kotz did graduate study in international relations at the London School of Economics.  After college, he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.  He is married to Mary Lynn Kotz, a journalist and author; their son, Jack Mitchell Kotz, is a photographer.

  Kotz resides on a cattle farm in Broad Run, VA.