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name: Daniel de Visé
about: Daniel de Visé﻿ is a writer and journalist. A graduate of Wesleyan and Northwestern universities, he worked at The Washington Post, the Miami Herald and three other newspapers in a 23-year career. He shared a 2001 team Pulitzer Prize and garnered more than two dozen other national and regional journalism awards. His investigative reporting twice led to the release of wrongly convicted men from life terms in prison. His first book, I Forgot To Remember (with Su Meck, Simon &amp; Schuster, 2014), began as a front-page article de Visé wrote for the Washington Post in 2011. His second book, Andy &amp; Don (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2015), began as a journalistic exploration into the storied career of his late brother-in-law, Don Knotts. Andy &amp; Don is now in it Daniel de Visé﻿ is a writer and journalist. A graduate of Wesleyan and Northwestern universities, he worked at The Washington Post, the Miami Herald and three other newspapers in a 23-year career. He shared a 2001 team Pulitzer Prize and garnered more than two dozen other national and regional journalism awards. His investigative reporting twice led to the release of wrongly convicted men from life terms in prison. His first book, I Forgot To Remember (with Su Meck, Simon &amp; Schuster, 2014), began as a front-page article de Visé wrote for the Washington Post in 2011. His second book, Andy &amp; Don (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2015), began as a journalistic exploration into the storied career of his late brother-in-law, Don Knotts. Andy &amp; Don is now in its eleventh paperback printing. His third book, The Comeback (Grove Atlantic, 2018), rekindled a childhood obsession with professional cycling and the sport's forgotten hero, Greg LeMond. The Comeback inspired Congress to award LeMond its highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, in December 2020. His fourth book, King of the Blues, honors a lifelong passion for collecting, performing and writing about music. King of the Blues was longlisted for the 2022 PEN America award in biography. ...more