David Burnham

Burnham was born in Boston on January 24, 1933, and raised in New Canaan, Connecticut. He served in the U.S. Army in the 11th Airborne Division and 82nd Airborne Division. He studied history at Harvard University. ==Career==

His career in journalism began in Washington in 1958. He joined The New York Times in 1967, working in New York before returning to Washington. He was also known for writing a series of articles about labor union activist Karen Silkwood, who mysteriously died while en route to meet Burnham to share evidence that the nuclear facility where she worked knew that its workers were exposed to unhealthy levels of plutonium. ==Personal life and death==

Burnham and his first wife, writer Sophy Doub, had two children and later divorced. In 1985, he married journalist Joanne Omang. Burnham owned a vacation home in Spruce Head, Maine. He died there on October 1, 2024, at the age of 91, after choking during a meal. ==Awards and honors==

• 1968: George Polk Award for Community Service • 1972: Newspaper Reporters Association of New York City Schaefer Gold Typewriter Award for Public Service • 1987: Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship • 1990: Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Best Book: A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics, and the IRS • 1992: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy • 2006: National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame Inductee ==Bibliography==