Biography

Ms ConnieSchultz

  • 2005 winner, Commentary category
  • Columnist, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, and Creators Syndicate, Los Angeles
  • Winning project: Her columns were praised by the judges for providing “a voice for the underdog and the underprivileged"

Connie Schultz is a nationally syndicated columnist for The Plain Dealer and Creators Syndicate.

She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for columns that judges praised for providing “a voice for the underdog and the underprivileged." Also in 2005, Schultz won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Commentary and the National Headliner Award for Commentary. She was a 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing for her series, "The Burden of Innocence," which chronicled the ordeal of Michael Green, who was imprisoned for 13 years for a rape he did not commit. The week after her series ran, the real rapist turned himself in after reading her stories. The series won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Social Justice Reporting, the National Headliner Award's Best of Show and journalism awards from Harvard and Columbia universities. In 2004, Schultz won the Batten Medal, which honors "a body of journalistic work that reflects compassion, courage, humanity and a deep concern for the underdog." Recently, the Urban League of Greater Cleveland awarded Schultz the Whitney M. Young Humanitarian Award.

During the 2008 presidential race, Schultz was a frequent guest on The Charlie Rose Show, and has also offered her Midwesterner's perspective on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.

Schultz is the author of two books published by Random House: "Life Happens – And Other Unavoidable Truths," a collection of essays, and “…and His Lovely Wife,” a memoir about her husband Sherrod Brown’s successful 2006 race for the U.S. Senate. Also, Schultz is a featured essayist in the newly released book, "Speech: Race and Barack Obama's A More Perfect Union," edited by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and published by Bloomsbury.


Connie's masterpieces

   
   
 
 
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