CONNECTING COMMUNITIES
IN NORTHWEST INDIANA
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Notable Personalities
Born, Raised, or Became Famous in Lake, Porter Counties Indiana
and Surrounding Illinois Communities.

 
 

Mark Fritz

Born May 5, 1956 in East Chicago, Indiana.
fritz.jpg (59198 bytes) Mark Fritz was a foreign correspondent for the The Associated Press in East Berlin and in West Africa.  The stories he covered include the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. occupation of Bosnia, and the wars in Rwanda, Somalia, the Persian Gulf and Liberia.  For his coverage from Rwanda, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1995 and his dispatches were selected for the book Best Newspaper Writing: 1995.  He is now a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, based in New York.

Additional Information Links: Mark Fritz web site.
 
 

If you know of a notable personality that is not on this list, who was born or raised in Lake , Porter Counties Indiana or Surrounding Illinois Communities please feel free to e-mail your suggestions to: ljackson@lakeco.lib.in.us
Page was last updated on December 15, 2007

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