Mike Pride is a

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-based author and journalist best known for his long tenure as editor of the ''

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'' of

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. He is the author or co-author of several books on the

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and

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Life and career

Pride grew up in

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. He attended the

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and the

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, ultimately receiving a

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from the latter institution. As an enlistee in the

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, he served as a Russian linguist from 1966 to 1970. Before moving to New Hampshire, he was a

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at ''

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'' and later served as

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of the ''Clearwater Sun'' and the ''

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''. He also worked at the ''

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''. Pride joined the ''Concord Monitor'' as

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in 1978 and became editor in 1983. Due to New Hampshire's early

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and the candidates that make the rounds in the state, the ''Monitor'' enjoyed significant national exposure throughout Pride's tenure at the publication. He completed a non-degree

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during the 1984-1985 academic year and received the

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's Editor of the Year Award in 1987 for overseeing coverage of the death of

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astronaut

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, a longtime Concord resident, in the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster. Later in his career, he held three

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Media Fellowships at

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from 2005 to 2010 and served as a scholar-in-residence at

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. A four-time

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juror, he later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for 9 years, ending his service as co-chair in April 2008. Pride retired from the ''Monitor'' in 2008 but returned in early 2014 to serve briefly as editor during a management transition, stepping down again in May. From September 2014 to July 2017, he served as the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, becoming the first (and to date, only) former member of the Pulitzer Board to hold the position. In this capacity, Pride oversaw the awards program's centennial celebration in 2016. He currently resides in

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Author

He is the co-editor, with Felice Belman, of ''The New Hampshire Century: Concord Monitor Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped It'' (2001). He is the co-author, with Mark Travis, of ''My Brave Boys: To War With Colonel Cross and the Fighting Fifth'' (2001). He is the co-author, with Steve Raymond, of ''Too Dead to Die: A Memoir of Bataan and Beyond'' (2006). He is the co-author, with Meg Heckman, of ''We Went to War: New Hampshire Remembers'' (2008). He is the author of ''Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union'' (2012). His most recent book, ''Storm Over

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: The Civil War and the Call of Freedom'', was published by

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in 2020. He is a former contributor to ''

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''.

References

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