Madeleine Blais is an United States journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s journalism department. As a reporter for the The Miami Herald, Blais earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1980 for “Zepp’s Last Stand,” a story about a self-declared pacifist and subsequently dishonorably discharged World War I veteran. Blais has worked at The Boston Globe (1971-1972), The Trenton Times (1974-1976) and The Miami Herald (1979-1987). She has also published articles in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Northeast Magazine in the Hartford Courant, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, Nieman Reports, the Detroit Free Press and the San Jose Mercury News. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with reporter. ... The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as UMass Amherst or simply UMass) is a university in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead:5 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:8 million Military dead:4 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:7 million World War I... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder, which was acquired by The McClatchy Company in March 2006. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Washington Post is the largest and oldest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ... The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the Worlds Greatest Newspaper, remains one of the principal daily newspapers of the midwestern United States. ... The Hartford Courant is Connecticuts largest daily newspaper, and the only morning newspaper for most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury. ... The Philadelphia Inquirer is one of a two Knight Ridder newspaper duopoly daily for the Philadelphia area. ... Newsday is a daily tabloid-size newspaper which primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the greater metropolitan area with the separate edition New York Newsday, established in 1985, folded in 1995, and shortly afterward revived. ... Along with The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press is one of the two major metro Detroit newspapers. ... The Mercs sections vary by day of the week, but Business, Sports, and The Valley are standard daily fare. ...

Works

• Zepp’s Last Stand
• Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family (2002), a memoir of her Irish-American single-parent upbringing,
• In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle (1995), the story of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes girl's high school basketball team, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in nonfiction
• The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism (1992), which includes profiles of Christine Falling, the Florida babysitter who murdered three children in her care, social activist Carol Fennelly and playwright Tennessee Williams.