Dale Maharidge（デイル・マハリッジ、1956年生まれ）は、アメリカのジャーナリスト、作家。長年にわたり貧困、労働、社会的不平等、アメリカ社会の変化をテーマに取材・執筆を続けている。現場に密着したルポルタージュで高く評価され、写真家 Michael S. Williamson との共同制作でも知られる。1985年刊行の『And Their Children After Them』は、Let Us Now Praise Famous Menの舞台となった家族の半世紀後を追った作品で、1989年のピューリッツァー賞 一般ノンフィクション部門を受賞した。その後もアメリカの労働者階級や若者、退役軍人などをテーマに数多くのノンフィクションを発表している。著書に『And Their Children After Them』『Journey to Nowhere』『Someplace Like America』『The Last Great American Hobo』などがある。
Dale Maharidge (born 1956) is an American journalist and author whose work focuses on poverty, labor, social inequality, and the changing lives of working-class Americans. He is widely recognized for his immersive reporting and for his long-running collaborations with photojournalist Michael S. Williamson. His acclaimed book "And Their Children After Them" revisits the families portrayed in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men nearly fifty years later, documenting the enduring effects of poverty across generations. The book won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. His other notable works include "Journey to Nowhere," "Someplace Like America," and "The Last Great American Hobo," all of which explore the lives of marginalized Americans through deeply reported narrative nonfiction.
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