Jack Nelson was born on 11 October 1929 in Talladega, Alabama, USA. He was married to Barbara Joan Matusow and Virginia Dare Dickinson. He died on 21 October 2009 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Former Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on alleged abuses at Milledgeville Central State Hospital (Milledgeville, GA) in 1960.