John Strohmeyer

John Strohmeyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and critically acclaimed author, has lived in Alaska since 1987. He has nearly sixty years of professional writing experience and has taught at prestigious universities across the country, including Lehigh University and Penn State before joining the Alaska university system. In 1972, while editor of the Bethlehem Globe-Times in Pennsylvania, Strohmeyer won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He has been picked as a Pulitzer Prize...See more

John Strohmeyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and critically acclaimed author, has lived in Alaska since 1987. He has nearly sixty years of professional writing experience and has taught at prestigious universities across the country, including Lehigh University and Penn State before joining the Alaska university system. In 1972, while editor of the Bethlehem Globe-Times in Pennsylvania, Strohmeyer won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He has been picked as a Pulitzer Prize juror on five different occasions and has served on the boards of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors, which he headed as president. After leaving the life of daily deadlines, Strohmeyer wrote Crisis in Bethlehem, which reviewers described as a classic account of Big Steel's battle to survive. Strohmeyer came to Alaska in 1987 upon winning appointment as Atwood Professor of Journalism, an endowed chair at the University of Alaska Anchorage. After his term expired, he spent the next years researching the impact of the discovery of oil upon Alaska. His book Extreme Conditions:  Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska, published by Simon & Schuster, was nationally acclaimed. As writer-in-residence at the University of Alaska Anchorage, he continues to research and write about issues generated by what he calls "this fast-changing but still majestic last frontier." See less