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Connie Schultz, The Plain Dealer |
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 Connie Schultz grew up in the working-class town of Ashtabula, Ohio, near Cleveland. She was the first in her family to go to college, and graduated with a journalism degree from Kent State University in 1979. In 2005, her commentary won the Pulitzer Prize and Scripps-Howard and National Headliner awards. Random House is publishing a book of her columns in April.
In 2004, she won the James Batten Medal for a three-year body of work of stories and columns illuminating the struggles of underdogs and ordinary folks. She was a 2003 Pulitzer finalist in feature writing for her narrative series, The Burden of Innocence. The series won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for social justice reporting and Best in Show at the National Headliner Awards. Schultz worked as a freelance writer for 15 years before joining The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1993. |
Susan Larson has been the book editor at The Times-Picayune since 1988; prior to that, she was a bookseller and a member of the boards of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association.