April Saul is an American journalist. She specializes in documentary photojournalism. Saul has photographed and written for ''

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'' since 1981. In 1997, Saul, along with Inquirer reporter Michael Vitez and photographer Ron Cortes, was awarded the

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

in Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles on end-of-life care, telling the stories of terminally-ill patients who wished to die with dignity.

Biography

Saul was born on May 27, 1955, in

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, New York and grew up in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey. She received her BA in English from

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

and her MA in Mass Communication from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

. Saul is the daughter of journalist Louise Saul (1921-2015). Saul became a photographer at ''

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'' in 1980, and the following year, joined the staff of ''

''. She was the first recipient of the Nikon/ NPPA Documentary Sabbatical Grant for her work on Hmong refugees in 1985. Over the last twenty-five years, she has won numerous honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the World Press Photo Budapest Award for Humanistic Photography and on various occasions, been named Photographer of the Year by the Northern Short Course, the Pennsylvania Press Photographers Association and the New Jersey Press Photographers Association. In January 2006, Saul "vowed to document in words and photos the death of every child by gun in the eight-county Philadelphia region in 2006." The resulting column in the Philadelphia Inquirer was called "Kids, Guns and a Deadly Toll."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saul, April 1955 births Living people Writers from Brooklyn People from East Brunswick, New Jersey Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumni Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners Journalists from New York City