April Saul

April Saulis an American journalist. She specializes in documentary photojournalism.

Saul has photographed and written forThe Philadelphia Inquirersince 1981. In 1997, Saul, along with Inquirer reporterMichael Vitezand photographer Ron Cortes, was awarded thePulitzer Prizein Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles on end-of-life care, telling the stories of terminally-ill patients who wished todie with dignity.

Biography

Saul was born on May 27, 1955, inBrooklyn,New Yorkand grew up inEast Brunswick Township, New Jersey.She received her BA in English fromTufts Universityand her MA in Mass Communication from theUniversity of Minnesota.Saul is the daughter of journalist Louise Saul (1921-2015).

Saul became a photographer atThe Baltimore Sunin 1980, and the following year, joined the staff ofThe Philadelphia Inquirer.She was the first recipient of the Nikon/ NPPA Documentary Sabbatical Grant for her work onHmongrefugees in 1985.

Over the last twenty-five years, she has won numerous honors, including theRobert F. Kennedy Journalism Award,the World Press Photo Budapest Award for Humanistic Photography and on various occasions, been named Photographer of the Year by the Northern Short Course, the Pennsylvania Press Photographers Association and the New Jersey Press Photographers Association.

In January 2006, Saul "vowed to document in words and photos the death of every child by gun in the eight-county Philadelphia region in 2006."The resulting column in the Philadelphia Inquirer was called "Kids, Guns and a Deadly Toll."