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Kilzer and another Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 1990 for articles exposing how top officials at the [[Saint Paul Fire Department]] were profiting from the arson industry.<ref name="1990 Pulitzer list">{{cite news|title=Winners of the 1990 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism and the Arts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/13/nyregion/winners-of-the-1990-pulitzer-prizes-in-journalism-and-the-arts.html|access-date=9 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=13 April 1990}}</ref> He has also won over a dozen national journalism awards, including the [[George Polk Award]] for National Reporting,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Polk/Previous.aspx#1986|title=Polk Awards|ref=4}}</ref> and the IRE award for [[investigative journalism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ire.org/awards/ire-awards/winners/1989-ire-award-winners/|title=IRE awards|ref=5}}</ref> |
Kilzer and another Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 1990 for articles exposing how top officials at the [[Saint Paul Fire Department]] were profiting from the arson industry.<ref name="1990 Pulitzer list">{{cite news|title=Winners of the 1990 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism and the Arts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/13/nyregion/winners-of-the-1990-pulitzer-prizes-in-journalism-and-the-arts.html|access-date=9 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=13 April 1990}}</ref> He has also won over a dozen national journalism awards, including the [[George Polk Award]] for National Reporting,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Polk/Previous.aspx#1986|title=Polk Awards|ref=4}}</ref> and the IRE award for [[investigative journalism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ire.org/awards/ire-awards/winners/1989-ire-award-winners/|title=IRE awards|ref=5}}</ref> |
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In 1994, Kilzer returned to the Denver Post as investigations editor,<ref>{{cite web|title=Showdown in Rockies|url=http://ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=1591|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=7}}</ref> followed by five years as investigative reporter where he had begun his career: Rocky Mountain News. Kilzer covered the insider stock trading by Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio and appeared before his stock fraud indictment and conviction. In 2008, Kilzer accepted the job of [[editor-in-chief]] of the [[JoongAng Daily]] in [[Seoul]], South Korea. The JoongAng Daily (now known as the [[Korea JoongAng Daily]]) is published in partnership with the [[International New York Times]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Seoul Rotary Club|url=http://www.seoulrotary.com/main4.php?start=80&cat=SR&search=|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=8}}</ref> Kilzer returned to the United States in 2010, taking a job on the investigative unit of the [[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]].<ref>{{cite web|title=National Press Club award presented to Trib reporter|url=http://triblive.com/home/2223767-74/kilzer-chinese-award-national-china-companies-club-economic-press-reporter#axzz3B5z8sdkM|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=9}}</ref> He retired and moved with his wife, Liz, to Costa Rica where he |
In 1994, Kilzer returned to the Denver Post as investigations editor,<ref>{{cite web|title=Showdown in Rockies|url=http://ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=1591|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=7}}</ref> followed by five years as investigative reporter where he had begun his career: Rocky Mountain News. Kilzer covered the insider stock trading by Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio and appeared before his stock fraud indictment and conviction. In 2008, Kilzer accepted the job of [[editor-in-chief]] of the [[JoongAng Daily]] in [[Seoul]], South Korea. The JoongAng Daily (now known as the [[Korea JoongAng Daily]]) is published in partnership with the [[International New York Times]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Seoul Rotary Club|url=http://www.seoulrotary.com/main4.php?start=80&cat=SR&search=|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=8}}</ref> Kilzer returned to the United States in 2010, taking a job on the investigative unit of the [[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]].<ref>{{cite web|title=National Press Club award presented to Trib reporter|url=http://triblive.com/home/2223767-74/kilzer-chinese-award-national-china-companies-club-economic-press-reporter#axzz3B5z8sdkM|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=9}}</ref> He retired and moved with his wife, Liz, to Costa Rica where he pursued a book writing career.<ref>{{cite web|title=Renown U.S. newsman joins A.M. Costa Rica as consultant|url=http://amcostaricaarchives.com/2014/03/renown-u-s-newsman-joins-a-m-costa-rica-as-consultant/|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=10}}</ref> |
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In 2012 he won the William Brewster Styles Award given by the [[Society of American Business Editors and Writers]] for reporting on international [[money laundering]]. Kilzer won the award, together with fellow reporter Andrew Conte and Investigations Editor [[Jim Wilhelm]] for work published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ahbj.sabew.org/awards/03312013william-brewster-styles-award-for-business-and-economics-journalism/|title = William Brewster Styles Award for Business and Economics Journalism|date = April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=2012 Scripps Howards Winners|url=http://www.shawards.org/winners2012.aspx|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=6}}</ref> |
In 2012 he won the William Brewster Styles Award given by the [[Society of American Business Editors and Writers]] for reporting on international [[money laundering]]. Kilzer won the award, together with fellow reporter Andrew Conte and Investigations Editor [[Jim Wilhelm]] for work published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ahbj.sabew.org/awards/03312013william-brewster-styles-award-for-business-and-economics-journalism/|title = William Brewster Styles Award for Business and Economics Journalism|date = April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=2012 Scripps Howards Winners|url=http://www.shawards.org/winners2012.aspx|access-date=25 November 2014|ref=6}}</ref> |
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His 2000 book ''Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich'' contends that Germany's defeat was largely the result of the [[Red Orchestra (espionage)|Red Orchestra]] spy ring that had penetrated the [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht|German High Command]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://m.recordnet.com/article/20000701/a_life/307019997 | title='Hitler's Traitor' spy story stranger than fiction | work=recordnet | date=Jan 8, 2011 | access-date=April 30, 2016 | author=Howard Lachtman}}</ref> The book contends that [[Martin Bormann]], a top aide to Adolf Hitler, and [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]], head of the Gestapo, were both Soviet agents. ''Publishers Weekly'' said that Kilzer "revisits this arena with an entertaining synthesis of evidence about the activities of these spies, extensive accounts of relevant military history, and informed speculations about causes and effects, motives and behaviors."<ref name="Amazon--Hitlers Traitor">{{cite book|title=Hitler's Traitor : Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich|publisher=Presidio Press|language=en|date=15 June 2000|isbn=0891417109}}</ref> |
His 2000 book ''Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich'' contends that Germany's defeat was largely the result of the [[Red Orchestra (espionage)|Red Orchestra]] spy ring that had penetrated the [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht|German High Command]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://m.recordnet.com/article/20000701/a_life/307019997 | title='Hitler's Traitor' spy story stranger than fiction | work=recordnet | date=Jan 8, 2011 | access-date=April 30, 2016 | author=Howard Lachtman}}</ref> The book contends that [[Martin Bormann]], a top aide to Adolf Hitler, and [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]], head of the Gestapo, were both Soviet agents. ''Publishers Weekly'' said that Kilzer "revisits this arena with an entertaining synthesis of evidence about the activities of these spies, extensive accounts of relevant military history, and informed speculations about causes and effects, motives and behaviors."<ref name="Amazon--Hitlers Traitor">{{cite book|title=Hitler's Traitor : Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich|publisher=Presidio Press|language=en|date=15 June 2000|isbn=0891417109}}</ref> |
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Kilzer's first book of fiction, co-authored with Mark Boyden, a British business consulting executive, is called "Fatal Redemption," published by Enigmas Publishing. "Fatal Redemption" won several national awards including the IRDA in 2015, the crime fiction award category for the Beverly Hills International Book Awards and the general fiction category of the 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival. Kilzer and Boyden |
Kilzer's first book of fiction, co-authored with Mark Boyden, a British business consulting executive, is called "Fatal Redemption," published by Enigmas Publishing. "Fatal Redemption" won several national awards including the IRDA in 2015, the crime fiction award category for the Beverly Hills International Book Awards and the general fiction category of the 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival. Kilzer and Boyden wrote a series centering around a journalist named Sally Will.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Boyden|first1=Mark|last2=Kilzer|first2=Lou|title=Fatal Redemption|ref=15}}</ref> This includes the title, "Fatal Seductions." |
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==Personal life and death== |
==Personal life and death== |
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Kilzer was born in Cody, Wyoming, the son of Robert and Marjorie Kilzer. He and his wife, Liz Kovacs, |
Kilzer was born in Cody, Wyoming, the son of Robert and Marjorie Kilzer. He and his wife, Liz Kovacs, had two grown children. He died from various ongoing illnesses at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on March 27, 2024. He was 73.<ref name="auto"/> |
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==Published works== |
==Published works== |
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Born | Cody, Wyoming, U.S. | February 10, 1951
Died | March 27, 2024 Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. | (aged 73)
Notable works | Churchill's Deception Hitler's Traitor Fatal Redemption Fatal Seductions |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for the Denver Post in 1986 with Diana Griego. Pulitzer Prize Investigative Reporting, 1990. |
Spouse | Liz Kovacs |
Children | Alex, Xanthe |
Lou Kilzer (February 10, 1951 – March 27, 2024) was an American investigative journalist and author and a two time Pulitzer Prize Winner.[1]
Career
Journalism
Kilzer began work as a journalist in 1973 after graduating cum laude in philosophy from Yale University,[2] joining the Rocky Mountain News in December 1977. He covered police, courts and investigations. In 1983, he began a five-year stint on the investigations unit and city desk of the Denver Post, and then seven years on the investigative unit of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
In 1986, Kilzer and two other Denver Post reporters won for that newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series that debunked the notion that millions of small American children were being kidnapped each year by strangers.[3]
Kilzer and another Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 1990 for articles exposing how top officials at the Saint Paul Fire Department were profiting from the arson industry.[4] He has also won over a dozen national journalism awards, including the George Polk Award for National Reporting,[5] and the IRE award for investigative journalism.[6]
In 1994, Kilzer returned to the Denver Post as investigations editor,[7] followed by five years as investigative reporter where he had begun his career: Rocky Mountain News. Kilzer covered the insider stock trading by Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio and appeared before his stock fraud indictment and conviction. In 2008, Kilzer accepted the job of editor-in-chief of the JoongAng Daily in Seoul, South Korea. The JoongAng Daily (now known as the Korea JoongAng Daily) is published in partnership with the International New York Times.[8] Kilzer returned to the United States in 2010, taking a job on the investigative unit of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.[9] He retired and moved with his wife, Liz, to Costa Rica where he pursued a book writing career.[10]
In 2012 he won the William Brewster Styles Award given by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for reporting on international money laundering. Kilzer won the award, together with fellow reporter Andrew Conte and Investigations Editor Jim Wilhelm for work published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.[11][12]
Books
Kilzer's 1994 book, Churchill's Deception, sought to prove that Great Britain tricked Germany into attacking the Soviet Union in 1941. It was published by Simon & Schuster. Kirkus Reviews called the book "an audacious rereading of the diplomatic history" of World War II," in which Kilzer argues "that Winston Churchill deliberately nurtured Hitler's illusion that powerful British factions sought an end to the war on terms favorable to Nazi Germany, and thus outwitted Hitler into starting a war against the Soviets that Germany could not win." The book maintains that Rudolf Hess's 1941 flight to Britain was a British intelligence operation, and that the man who died in Spandau Prison in 1987 was not Hess. Kirkus called the book "an absorbing and cogently argued original contribution to WW II literature."[13] Booklist said historians would give the book "short shrift" because it was primarily derived from existing published works, and Library Journal described the Hess theory as "generally discredited."[14]
His 2000 book Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich contends that Germany's defeat was largely the result of the Red Orchestra spy ring that had penetrated the German High Command.[15] The book contends that Martin Bormann, a top aide to Adolf Hitler, and Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, were both Soviet agents. Publishers Weekly said that Kilzer "revisits this arena with an entertaining synthesis of evidence about the activities of these spies, extensive accounts of relevant military history, and informed speculations about causes and effects, motives and behaviors."[16]
Kilzer's first book of fiction, co-authored with Mark Boyden, a British business consulting executive, is called "Fatal Redemption," published by Enigmas Publishing. "Fatal Redemption" won several national awards including the IRDA in 2015, the crime fiction award category for the Beverly Hills International Book Awards and the general fiction category of the 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival. Kilzer and Boyden wrote a series centering around a journalist named Sally Will.[17] This includes the title, "Fatal Seductions."
Personal life and death
Kilzer was born in Cody, Wyoming, the son of Robert and Marjorie Kilzer. He and his wife, Liz Kovacs, had two grown children. He died from various ongoing illnesses at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on March 27, 2024. He was 73.[1]
Published works
- Kilzer, Lou, and Mark Boyden. Fatal Redemption: A Mystery Thriller. Enigmas Publishing, 2014. ISBN 9780992806804
- Kilzer, Lou, and Mark Boyden. Fatal Seductions: Second in the Sally Will series. Enigmas Publishing, 2015. ISBN 9780992806859
- Kilzer, Lou, and Sarah Huntley. Battered Justice. Denver, CO: Rocky Mountain News, 2005. OCLC 84154064
- Kilzer, Louis C. Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2000. ISBN 0891417109
- Kilzer, Louis C. Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0671767224
References
- ^ a b sage.kelley@denvergazette.com, Sage Kelley (March 29, 2024). "Thunder in his pen: Pulitzer-prize winning Denver journalist Lou Kilzer dies at 73". Denver Gazette.
- ^ "Profiles of Pulitzer Prize Winners". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "WINNERS OF PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM, LETTERS AND THE ARTS". The New York Times. 18 April 1986. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ^ "Winners of the 1990 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism and the Arts". The New York Times. 13 April 1990. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ^ "Polk Awards".
- ^ "IRE awards".
- ^ "Showdown in Rockies". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "Seoul Rotary Club". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "National Press Club award presented to Trib reporter". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "Renown U.S. newsman joins A.M. Costa Rica as consultant". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "William Brewster Styles Award for Business and Economics Journalism". April 2013.
- ^ "2012 Scripps Howards Winners". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "CHURCHILL'S DECEPTION by Louis C. Kilzer". Kirkus Reviews. 1 June 1994. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany. 1994. ISBN 0671767224.
- ^ Howard Lachtman (Jan 8, 2011). "'Hitler's Traitor' spy story stranger than fiction". recordnet. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
- ^ Hitler's Traitor : Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich. Presidio Press. 15 June 2000. ISBN 0891417109.
- ^ Boyden, Mark; Kilzer, Lou. Fatal Redemption.