Dan Fagin
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Fagin at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
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February 1, 1963 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States |
| Occupation | Environmental journalist, New York University journalism professor |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Dartmouth College |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2014) |
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Dan Fagin is an American journalist who specializes in environmental science. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his best-selling book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation.Toms River also won the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the National Academies Communication Award and the Society of Environmental Journalists Rachel Carson Book Award, among other literary prizes.
Fagin was born in Oklahoma City and attended high school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, where he was friends with another future author, Blake Bailey. Fagin graduated in 1985 from Dartmouth College, where he served as the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth (the college's daily newspaper).
From 1991-2005, Fagin was the environmental writer at Newsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Fagin is a former president of the Society of Environmental Journalists. In 2003, his stories about cancer epidemiology won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and also won the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers.
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