William Dietrich is an author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
and Washington native. After graduating from Fairhaven College, he
began his career in journalism chronicling Skagit County agriculture
for the Bellingham Herald. He was soon reporting from Olympia and then
covered Congress for Gannett News Service in Washington, D.C. Bill was
part of a four-person team which won the Pulitzer Prize for national
reporting on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He is the author of Northwest
Passage, an environmental and cultural history of the Columbia River,
and The Final Forest, a study of the Northwest's old growth forest
debate that received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award
and the Washington Governor Writer's award. His novels include Ice Reich,
Dark Winter and Hadrian's Wall. He currently writes for the
Seattle Times' Sunday magazine, Pacific Northwest.
Humanities Washington Award