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  • Comment: Note to AfC reviewers: draft author came into #en-wikipedia-help. I think this person probably just meets NCREATIVE with the award, but to round it off have recommended add a few strong secondary sources on book reviews/body of work etc. I would likely be inclined to accept narrowly as-is, or with two or three more secondary sources. qcne (talk) 21:39, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment: Many sources are his own articles, not reliable. GoldRomean (talk) 14:13, 15 May 2025 (UTC)


Guy Gugliotta
EducationColumbia University BA, MIA
OccupationWriter
Employer(s)Washington Post, Miami Herald, UPI
Notable workGrant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan, Swift Boats at War in Vietnam, Freedom's Cap, Kings of Cocaine
AwardsFreedom’s Cap, Kirkus A Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (2012),

Investigative Reporters and Editors award (1989) w/Jeff Leen, Sigma Delta Chi Award (1989) w/Jeff Leen, Maria Moors Cabot Prize Gold Medal (1987), Penney-Missouri Award (1986),

Nieman Fellow Harvard University (1982)

Guy Gugliotta is an award-winning American journalist and author, based in New York City. He is the author and/or editor of four books: Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan, [1][2]Swift Boats at War in Vietnam,[3] Freedom's Cap:The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War[4] [5]and Kings of Cocaine [6] and was a reporter for The Washington Post, Miami Herald, and United Press International. He has also written for The New York Times and many magazines, including Smithsonian, Wired, Discover, The New Republic, Air & Space/Smithsonian, and National Geographic.

Career

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Gugliotta graduated from Columbia University in 1967.[7] Drafted three months before graduation, he spent two years as a division and watch officer aboard an Atlantic Fleet destroyer and a year as Officer-in-Charge of a river patrol boat (Swift Boat) in the Mekong Delta.[3] He was awarded three Bronze Stars, two with a combat V.[3][8]

After Vietnam, Gugliotta returned to Columbia and earned a master's degree in International Affairs at the Columbia University School of International Affairs.[7] He worked for United Press International for six years: as a reporter and editor for the New York local desk; then as UPI’s Caribbean News Editor based in Puerto Rico; its chief correspondent in Argentina, where he covered the Dirty War; and as news editor for Brazil. In late 1978, he joined the Latin America Desk of the Miami Herald, covering the Sandinista Revolution,[9] Argentina's Falkland Islands War and World Cup Soccer Championships and was the first U.S. correspondent for a major newspaper to report extensively about the Colombian cocaine cartels.[10] He also covered the Iranian Revolution in 1978-1979,[8] the Iran hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

In 1990, Gugliotta joined the National Desk of The Washington Post where he covered the Gulf War,[11] Congress, science and space, agriculture, poverty and urban issues, and wrote a weekly humor column.[12] He was a lead reporter during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton,[13] the House banking scandal, and the resignation of House Speaker Newt Gingrich.[14] On September 11, 2001, he wrote The Post’s front page extra[15] during the first hours after the World Trade Center attacks. He covered NASA following the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster.

As a freelance writer and author since 2006, Gugliotta has traveled in the US, Latin America, and Africa, writing on the challenges of American health care, cheetahs in the Namibian wild,[16] a prehistoric school-bus sized snake in Colombia, and the moons of Saturn.

Awards, fellowships and service

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Personal Life

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Gugliotta is married to Carla Robbins, a university professor and journalist specializing in U.S. defense policy and foreign affairs who has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes [26]. Their daughter Annie Gugliotta is a visual designer.[26][27]

References

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  1. ^ Gugliotta, Guy (2025-04-15). Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820373362.
  2. ^ Bordewich, Fergus (2025-07-07). "'Grant's Enforcer' Review: A 19th-Century War on Terror". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
  3. ^ a b c d Gugliotta, Guy; Yeoman, John; Sullaway, Neva (2017-05-01). Swift Boats at War in Vietnam. Globe Pequot. ISBN 9780811719599.
  4. ^ Gugliotta, Guy (2013-04-09). Freedom's Cap:The United State Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War. Macmillan. ISBN 9780809046836.
  5. ^ Yardley, Jonathan (2012-03-23). ""Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War" by Guy Gugliotta". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
  6. ^ Gugliotta, Guy (2018-06-30). Kings of Cocaine. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-9821-0724-6. Archived from the original on 2024-06-16.
  7. ^ a b c "Cabot Medalist Began Career at Columbia". Vol. 13, no. 11. Columbia University. Columbia University Record. 1987-11-13. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
  8. ^ a b c "The Bob Considine Award 1980". OPC. 1981-04-29. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
  9. ^ Gentile, Bill (2021-06-08). Wait for Me: True Stories of War, Love & Rock and Roll. Bill Gentile. p. Chapter 1, Page 1. ISBN 0578919567.
  10. ^ a b "1987 IRE Award winners - IRE". 2020-04-16. Archived from the original on 2020-04-16. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  11. ^ Gugliotta, Guy (1991-01-15). "Waiting on the Edge". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
  12. ^ Gugliotta, Guy (1994-05-10). "Capital Notebook". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
  13. ^ Gugliotta, Guy; Eilperin, Juliet (1998-11-25). "Perjury Charge Faces Close Vote". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
  14. ^ Gugliotta, Guy; Eilperin, Juliet (1998-11-07). "Gingrich Steps Down as Speaker in Face of House GOP Rebellion". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
  15. ^ Gugliotta, Guy (2001-09-11). "N.Y. Skyscrapers Collapse After Hijacked Planes Hit". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
  16. ^ Gugliotta, Guy (March 2008). "Rare Breed". Smithsonian Media. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
  17. ^ "Journalism Fellowship | Santa Fe Institute". www.santafe.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  18. ^ "Best Nonfiction of 2012". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  19. ^ "Capitol Fellowship Recipients | U.S. Capitol Historical Society". United States Capitol Historical Society. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  20. ^ "Herald wins three awards; Hart coverage is praised". "The Miami Herald". 1988-03-31.
  21. ^ "Reporter wins journalism award posthumously". UPI. 1986-12-04. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
  22. ^ Staff, A. P. F. (1985-01-05). "20th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 1985 - APF Staff". Alicia Patterson Foundation. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  23. ^ "Alphabetical List by Class Year". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  24. ^ "Foreign Reporting Cited By Overseas Press Club". The New York Times. 1981-04-30. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
  25. ^ "Fascell: US to Help Counter Attempts to Limit Press Freedom". The Miami Herald. 1978-10-11.
  26. ^ a b Robbins, Carla (1998-03-15). "Journalist's Trade Response: Narratives and Analysis". Nieman Reports. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
  27. ^ "Anne Luz Gugliotta". Anne Luz Gugliotta. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
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