Dhaka, April 23 -- Dan Eggen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor who spent nearly three decades at The Washington Post, has died at the age of 60.

The daily, citing his former wife Stephanie Armour, said the veteran journalist was found dead at his home in the US capital on Tuesday.

Authorities told his family that no foul play or violence was suspected, while the cause of death remains pending a postmortem examination, it added.

According to the paper, Eggen was a defining figure in American political journalism, helping steer reporting on the White House, Congress, and numerous presidential campaigns.

He was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for coverage of the 9/11 plotters, and later contributed to projects that secu...