Stan Grossfeld

Stan Grossfeld is an associate editor at The Boston Globe who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for photojournalism. He was born in New [York City] and graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Professional Photography in 1973. After two years in Newark, New Jersey, at The Star-Ledger he went to work for The Boston Globe. While working there he completed a Master of Journalism at Boston University in 1980. He became chief photographer at the Globe in 1983. Next year he won the Pulitzer Prize for [Spot News Photography] for a "series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon". In 1985 he won the Feature Photography Pulitzer for a "series of photographs of the 1983–85 [famine in Ethiopia|famine in Ethiopia] and for his pictures of illegal aliens on the Mexican border." Named associate editor of the Globe in 1987, Grossfeld photographs many subjects, including sports.