Dan Eggen, a longtime Washington Post reporter and editor who worked on three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects and helped shape the newspaper’s coverage of the White House, Congress and presidential politics, was found dead April 21 at his home in Washington. He was 60.
His death was confirmed by Stephanie Armour, his former wife. The cause of death is pending an autopsy, but police officials indicated to the family that no foul play or violence was suspected.
Mr. Eggen was at the center of much of The Post’s most sensitive and high-profile stories and projects during his nearly three decades at the paper. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for investigations into the network behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and he later was a key editor on the paper’s Pulitzer-winning reporting on Russian election interference in 2016 and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
