Connie Schultz

Connie Schultz, a bi-weekly columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2005. Her other accolades include the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award, the National Headliner Award, the Batten Medal, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for social-justice reporting. Her narrative series “The Burden of Innocence,” which chronicled the life of a man wrongly incarcerated for rape, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. After the series ran, the real rapist turned himself in, and he is now serving a five-year prison sentence. vote. In a more humorous vein, Connie shares her mother’s advice on men (“Don’t marry him until you see how he treats the waitress”) and warns men everywhere against using the dreaded f-word (it’s not the one you think). Along the way, Connie introduces us to the heroic people who populate our world and shows us how just one person can make a difference.

Charming, provocative, funny, and perceptive, Life Happens gives us, for the first time, Connie Schultz’s celebrated commentary in one irresistible volume. Life Happens challenges us to be more open and alive to others and to the world around us.

Connie is married to Ohio’s popular congressman Sherrod Brown.

Books by Connie Schultz

Lola and the Troll

Connie Schultz

A debut picture book by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Connie Schultz, about a young girl named Lola who decides to be brave and stand up to a bully.

The Daughters of Erietown

Connie Schultz

Hidden desires, long-held secrets, and the sacrifices people make for family and to realize their dreams are at the heart of this powerful New York Times bestselling novel about people in a small town. By the popular Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

"A moving, unforgettable story about time, progress, and how the mistakes of one generation get repeated or repaired by the next." --J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints For All Occasions

Life Happens

Connie Schultz

Like Anna Quindlen, Connie Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for her funny and provocative commentary on a wide range of topics about life today -- why men and women drive each other crazy, politics, social mores (or lack thereof), family, who votes and why, and much, much more.