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Michael Vitez


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in Washington, D.C., The United States
April 11, 1957

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Michael Vitez is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author whose work celebrates resilience, dignity, and the extraordinary within the everyday. For three decades, he wrote human-interest stories for The Philadelphia Inquirer, including a landmark series on end-of-life care that earned him the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism in 1997. He is the author of several books, among them Final Choices, Rocky Stories, The Road Back, and Great Americans. Today, he directs the Narrative Medicine program at Temple University's Lewis Katz School of Medicine, helping future doctors understand the power of storytelling in healthcare. ...more

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“With a little bit of faith, big miracles can happen.”
― Michael Vitez, The Road Back: A Journey of Grace and Grit
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“Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Michael Vitez, The Road Back: A Journey of Grace and Grit
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“he added again in his own words: “Never lose hope. Never lose faith, no matter how great of a climb the top of a mountain may be.” In closing, he described what he’d been through as not a near-death experience, but a “life-awakening” one, “and today I’m living more than I ever lived before.”
― Michael Vitez, The Road Back: A Journey of Grace and Grit
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