Ann Desantis (born August 27, 1946) is an American journalist forThe Boston Globe. In1972, she won thePulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting withGerard O'Neill,Timothy Leland, andStephen A. Kurkjian, for exposing corruption inSomerville, Massachusetts.^[1]

Desantis was born on August 27, 1946, inSchenectady, New York, to Thaddeus B. Lewkowicz and Jill Lewkowicsnée Young. She attendedSt. Lawrence University, graduating with aBachelor of Arts inFrench, and gained aMaster of Arts fromHarvard University. In 1968, she married William A. Desantis, and they were married until his death in 1970. The following year, Ann Desantis marriedStephen A. Kurkjan. She has two children.^[2][3][4]

In 1968, Desantis began working at theSchenectady Gazette. After two years at that paper, traveled to Boston to take summer classes at Harvard in June 1970. It was that year that she began working atThe Boston Globe, where she began as a staff member. It was in that position that she won the 1972Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting withGerard O'Neill,Timothy Leland, and Stephen A. Kurkjian, for exposing corruption inSomerville, Massachusetts, as a member of theSpotlight team. The investigation led to 119 Somerville officials beingindicted. That year Desantis became a publicity manager atCahners Publications in Boston and worked there for a year. In 1973, she left to become afreelance writer, working in that capacity until 1985, when she was made associate director at the Washington, D.C. Communications Consortium. In 1991, Desantis was public relations director ofThe Boston Foundation.^[2][3][5]

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