Doug Marlette is Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Atlanta Constitution and also creator of the popular, nationally syndicated comic strip, Kudzu. His editorial cartoons are syndicated to more than 100 newspapers in this country and abroad and are regularly reprinted in Newsweek and other major publications. Kudzu appears in more than 150 newspapers.

Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, he has also received the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award, the First Amendment Award, and First Place, John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition. He won the National Headliner Award for Consistently Outstanding Editorial Cartoons in 1983 and again in 1988.

He was the first and only cartoonist to receive a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. In 1984, he was selected by Esquire Magazine for its Register of Men and Women Under 40 Who Are Changing America. He or his work has appeared on ABC's Nightline, The CBS Morning News, The Today Show and National Public Radio.

He lives in the Atlanta area with his wife, Melinda, and their son, Jackson.