Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1994), Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction (2000)
Eileen Welsome (born March 12, 1951)[1] is an American journalist and author. She received aPulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1994 while a reporter forThe Albuquerque Tribune for a 3-part story titled "The Plutonium Experiment" published beginning on November 15, 1993.[2] She was awarded the prize for her articles about the government'shuman radiation experiments conducted on unwilling and unknowing Americans during theCold War.[3][4] Welsome also has received a George Polk Award, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Gold Medal, the Heywood Broun Award, as well as awards from the National Headliners Association and the Associated Press.[3] In 1999, Welsome wrote the bookThe Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War.[5] In 2000, Welsome received thePEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and the PEN Center USA West Award in Research Nonfiction forThe Plutonium Files.[6]
Welsome began her career in journalism as a reporter for theBeaumont Enterprise. She also worked for theSan Antonio Light and theSan Antonio Express-News before joiningThe Albuquerque Tribune staff in 1987. Welsome graduated from theUniversity of Texas at Austin in 1980 with aBachelor of Journalism degree.[3]
Welsome, Eileen.The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War. New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, 1999.ISBN0385314027OCLC40805423
Welsome, Eileen.The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: a True Story of Revolution and Revenge. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2006.ISBN0316715999OCLC62172693
Welsome, Eileen.Healers and Hellraisers: Denver Health's First 150 Years. Denver, CO: Denver Health Foundation, 2011.ISBN9780615423906
