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Michael D'Antonio (born May 11, 1955) [1] is an American author, journalist, and commentator on CNN. He shared the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting with a team of Newsday reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including Never Enough , a 2015 biography of Donald Trump, and A Consequential President, a 2017 book on the Presidency of Barack Obama. [2] His book Mortal Sins was a 2014 Edgar Award nominee. [3]

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D'Antonio was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1977. [1] He wrote for the Dover Democrat in New Hampshire from 1976 to 1977, and the Portland Press Herald in Maine from 1977 to 1983 before joining Newsday as a writer, where he worked from 1983 to 1990. He was also a contributing editor to Child magazine. [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 Olendorf, Donna, ed. (1993). "D'Antonio, Michael". Contemporary Authors. Vol. 140. Gale Research Inc. pp.  108–109. ISBN   0-8103-1971-3.
  2. Porch, Scott (January 20, 2018). "Tallying the facts of Obama's economic legacy". Chicago Tribune.
  3. "Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2014 Edgar Award Nominations". www.prnewswire.com. January 16, 2014.