About Tom Knudson
Born 1953. Tom Knudson is an American journalist.
Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Knudson (born 6 July 1953) is an American journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in 1985 and 1992.
Biography Thomas Jeffrey Knudson was born 6 July 1953 in the city of Manning in Carroll County, Iowa. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa, graduating the class of 1971.
After graduation in June 1980, Knudson joined The Des Moines Register as a full-time journalist. A number of his family members were farmers in the Manning-area, and when he was a boy, his cousin had been run over by a tractor. He won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for this article.
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American journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
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