Don Van Natta, Jr.
| Don Van Natta Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 22, 1964 Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA |
| Education | Boston University |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Notable credit(s) | "ESPN"; The New York Times; The Miami Herald; "Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias"; Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton (with Jeff Gerth); First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers and Cheaters from Taft to Bush |
| Spouse(s) | Lisette Alvarez |
| Children | 2 daughters |
Don Van Natta Jr. (born July 22, 1964) is an American journalist and writer. He is an investigative reporter for ESPN, since January 2012. He previously worked for 16 years as an investigative correspondent at The New York Times, where he was a member of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes.
At the Times, Van Natta was on a six-reporter team, led by Jeff Gerth, that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories about American corporations that sold satellite technology with military value to China. And he was one of nine reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for work on Al Qaeda following the September 11 attacks.
Gerth and Van Natta wrote an investigative biography of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, entitled, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, published in June 2007 by Little, Brown and Company.
Van Natta was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He graduated in 1982 from Don Bosco Preparatory High School in Ramsey, New Jersey. He is a 1986 graduate of Boston University, where he won the Scarlet Key, an award given to student leaders. At BU, he served for three semesters as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Free Press, an independent daily newspaper published by students. In 2000, Boston University's College of Communication presented Van Natta with its Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2005, Boston University honored Van Natta as one of its 22 alumni to have won the Pulitzer Prize.
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