Michael Thomas Vitez was born on April 11,1957 and is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
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Michael Vitez is the son of immigrants, his father having fled from Budapest, Hungary in 1939, and his mother came to America from Europe as a German Jew in 1941; both leaving their homeland to escape from Hitler's reign.
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Michael Vitez is the Director of Narrative Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, after serving as a journalist over a three decade career with The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Michael Vitez has authored four books, one based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning stories, Final Choices.
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Michael Vitez was born on April 11,1957, in Washington, DC and grew up in North Springfield, in northern Virginia.
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Michael Vitez is the son of immigrants, his father, Thomas Vitez, fled Budapest, Hungary in 1939, and his mother, Marianne, came to America from Europe as a German Jew in 1941; both leaving their homeland to escape from Hitler's reign.
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Michael Vitez's parents met in New York City, eventually moving to the Washington area.
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Michael Vitez is married to Maureen Fitzgerald, and they have three children.
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Michael Vitez gained his first experience in journalism, as editor in chief of his school newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, at the University of Virginia, from 1978 to 1979.
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Michael Vitez was on the staff of the Hartford Courant before being offered and accepting a position at the Inquirer in 1985.
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Michael Vitez has had a long career in Philadelphia, as a general-assignment feature writer.
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In November 2006, Michael Vitez published Rocky Stories, a collection of stories about people who came to Philadelphia to run the famous Rocky Steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Michael Vitez's focus on end-of-life care continued, and Vitez was granted access, for 18-months, to Abington Memorial Hospital, in Pennsylvania.
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In 2015, Michael Vitez left the Inquirer to serve as the Director of Narrative Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.