Which Pulitzer Prize winning author was featured in a 2014 documentary about Edward Snowden?
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Citizenfour Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, at the BFI London Film Festival. The film features Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, and was co-produced by Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, and Dirk Wilutzky, with Steven Soderbergh and others serving as executive producers. "Citizenfour" received critical acclaim upon release, and was the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars.
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Glenn Greenwald Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by "The Guardian" newspaper beginning in June 2013, detailing the United States and British global surveillance programs, and based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the team he worked with won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for those reports. He has written several best-selling books, including "No Place to Hide".
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John A. Farrell John Aloysius Farrell is an American author. He has written biographies of U.S. President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, and defense attorney Clarence Darrow. He is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for "The Boston Globe" and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for "The Denver Post".
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J (novel) J is a 2014 novel by Howard Jacobson. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
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Heather Ann Thompson Heather Ann Thompson (August 17, 1963) is an American historian, author, activist, college professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History for her work "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy".
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Marshall Allen (journalist) Marshall Allen is an American journalist, who with Alex Richards, won the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
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Jesselyn Radack Jesselyn Radack (born December 12, 1970) is a national security and human rights attorney known for her defense of whistleblowers, journalists, and hacktivists. She represents some of the most polarizing people in the United States, including National Security Agency whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Thomas Drake, each of whom was charged under the Espionage Act after exposing wrongdoing.
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D.M. Pulley D.M. Pulley is the Grand Prize winner of the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and author the Mystery/Thriller novel "The Dead Key". After winning the Amazon Breakthrough award in July 2014, Pulley received a publishing contract with Amazon Publishing (under the Thomas & Mercer imprint).
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Nicholas Wapshott Nicholas Wapshott (born 13 January 1952) is a British journalist and writer. He is a Reuters contributing columnist and an online content consultant to a number of media and private clients. He was the editor of "The Times" Saturday edition as well as the founding editor of "The Times Magazine". He has written a number of biographies including those of Margaret Thatcher and Carol Reed. His book "The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II" was published by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2014.
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Annie Dillard Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.
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Gilbert King (author) Gilbert Anthony King (born February 22, 1962) is an American writer and photographer. He is known best as the author of "" (2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize. His previous history was "The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South" (2008).
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Age of Ambition Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China is a non-fiction book by Evan Osnos, a staff writer at "The New Yorker". It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014. It chronicles the lives of people that Osnos came to know while he was in China from 2005 to 2013. It was awarded the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
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Thomas Friedman Thomas Loren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist and author. He is a three time Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Erik Larson (author) Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American journalist and author of nonfiction books. He has written a number of bestsellers, such as "The Devil in the White City" (2003), about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders by H. H. Holmes that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair; "The Devil in the White City" also won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, among other awards.
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Sheryl WuDunn Sheryl WuDunn (born November 16, 1959) is an American business executive, writer, lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Kirk Simon Kirk Simon is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on various documentaries. Simon has been nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning once. Simon has produced three films nominated for the Best Documentary (Short Subject), including "" (1990), "Rehearsing a Dream" (2007), and "Strangers No More" (2010); he won the award for the latter film at the 83rd Academy Awards, and shared the win with Karen Goodman with whom he worked on all three films. Simon has also received a nomination in the category of the Best Documentary Feature for producing "" (1986). In 2016, he produced a feature documentary on the centenary of the Pulitzer prize called "The Pulitzer at 100."
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Haynes Johnson Haynes Bonner Johnson (July 9, 1931May 24, 2013) was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, best-selling author, and TV analyst. He reported on most of the major news stories of the latter half of the 20th century and was widely regarded as one of the top American political commentators.
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Kevin P. Coughlin Kevin P. Coughlin is a Pulitzer Prize-sharing photojournalist, writer, director of photography, pilot, and aerial cinematographer. He is currently the executive photographer for New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. His photographs at Ground Zero following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and while covering funerals and memorial services of fallen fire fighters, police officers, and emergency personnel killed as a result of the attacks are included in the 2002 Pulitzer Prize awarded to The New York Times for Public Service. In addition to The New York Times, his photographs have appeared in the "New York Post", "New York Daily News", "Newsday", "The Philadelphia Inquirer", "The Los Angeles Times", "Bloomberg News", "Business Week", "People", "Sports Illustrated", "Rolling Stone", "Time", "USA Today" and "The Wall Street Journal". He has also written magazine articles for "GQ" and "News Photographer".
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Tony Horwitz Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958) is an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback (1987), Baghdad Without a Map (1991), "Confederates in the Attic" (1998), "Blue Latitudes" (AKA "Into the Blue") (2002), "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World" (2008), and his most recent book "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War" (2011).
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Joshua Frank Joshua Frank (born in Billings, Montana) is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and editor living in the United States and covers current political and environmental topics. Along with Jeffrey St. Clair he is the editor of the political magazine and website CounterPunch. His work appears in Seattle Weekly, OC Weekly and regularly at CounterPunch. Frank's investigative work has been supported by The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund.
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Edwin G. Burrows Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (born May 15, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College. He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "" (1998), and author of "Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War," (2008), which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.
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Richard Miniter Richard Miniter (born 1967) is an investigative journalist and author whose articles have appeared in "The New York Times", "The Washington Times", "The Washington Post", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Atlantic Monthly", "Newsweek", "The New Republic", "National Review", PJ Media, and "Reader’s Digest". A former editorial writer and columnist for "The Wall Street Journal" in Europe, as well as a member of the investigative reporting team of the "Sunday Times" of London, he is currently the National Security columnist for "Forbes". He also authored three "New York Times" best-selling books, "Losing bin Laden", "Shadow War", "Leading From Behind", and most recently "Eyes On Target". In April 2014, Miniter was included by CSPAN's Brian Lamb in his book "Sundays At Eight", as one of Lamb's top 40 book author interviews of the past 25 years for Miniter's investigative work on 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.