Michael Thomas Vitez | |
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Born | Washington, D.C. | April 11, 1957
Occupation(s) | Director of Narrative Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University |
Spouse | Maureen Fitzgerald |
Children | 3 children |
Awards | 1997 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]
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