Michael Vitez

Michael Thomas Vitez
Born (1957-04-11) April 11, 1957 (age 67)
Washington, D.C.
Occupation(s)Director of Narrative Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
SpouseMaureen Fitzgerald
Children3 children
Awards1997 Pulitzer prize, explanatory reporting

Michael Thomas Vitez (born April 11, 1957)[1] is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. He is the son of immigrants, his father having fled from Budapest, Hungary in 1939, and his mother came to America from Europe as a German Jew in 1941; both leaving their homeland to escape from Hitler's reign. He is the Director of Narrative Medicine[2] at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, after serving as a journalist over a three decade career (1985-2015) with The Philadelphia Inquirer.[1][3][4]

His work at the Inquirer was focused on human-interest stories. In 1997, Vitez, along with Inquirer photographers April Saul and Ron Cortes, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles he wrote on end-of-life care, telling the stories of terminally ill patients who wished to die with dignity.[3][5] He has authored four books, one based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning stories, Final Choices.[6]

  1. ^ a b "About Michael". MICHAEL VITEZ. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  2. ^ "At Lewis Katz School of Medicine, a focus on storytelling". Temple Now | news.temple.edu. 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  3. ^ a b "The 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Journalism". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "About Mike Vitez". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 17 February 2007.
  6. ^ "Final Choices". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-11-15.