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10 Facts About Thomas French

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Thomas M French was born on January 3,1958 and is an American writer and journalist.

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Thomas M French was born Jan 3,1958 to Hans and Katherine French in Columbus, Ohio and was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Thomas French is known for feature writing but he started off on the police and courts beats, as well as general assignments.

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Thomas French is the Riley Endowed Chair in journalism in the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Thomas French wrote the series "South of Heaven," later expanded into a book of narrative nonfiction, about students at the end of the 1980s at Largo High School with the cooperation of LHS journalism teacher Jan Amburgy.

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Thomas French collaborated on "13", a mini-series that ran in the St Petersburg Times about middle schoolers at Booker T Washington Middle Magnet School for International Studies in Tampa.

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Thomas French's piece "The Exorcist in Love" is an in-depth investigation into the life and work of Laura Knight.

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In 1992, Thomas French won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for his local reporting on a high school.

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In 1998, Thomas French won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

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In 2015, Thomas French was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.