|
Houghton |
Julia Ward Howe |
|
1917 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall |
|
|
New York Tribune |
For an editorial article on the first anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania. |
1917 |
Editorial Writing |
No author named |
|
|
With Americans of Past and Present Days |
|
1917 |
History |
His Excellency J.J. Jusserand |
|
|
New York World |
For articles which appeared October 10, October 15 and from November 4 daily to November 22, 1916, inclusive, entitled, "Inside the German Empire." |
1917 |
Reporting |
Herbert Bayard Swope |
|
Putnam |
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed |
|
1918 |
Biography or Autobiography |
William Cabell Bruce |
|
|
Why Marry? |
|
1918 |
Drama |
Jesse Lynch Williams |
|
|
Louisville Courier Journal |
For the editorial article, "Vae Victis!" and the editorial, "War Has Its Compensation." |
1918 |
Editorial Writing |
No author named |
|
Macmillan |
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 |
|
1918 |
History |
James Ford Rhodes |
|
Macmillan |
His Family |
|
1918 |
Novel |
Ernest Poole |
|
|
Love Songs |
This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society. |
1918 |
Poetry |
Sara Teasdale |
|
|
The New York Times |
For its public service in publishing in full so many official reports, documents and speeches by European statesmen relating to the progress and conduct of the war. |
1918 |
Public Service |
The New York Times |
|
|
New York Evening Post |
For series of articles exposing abuses in and leading to the reform of the New Jersey State prison. |
1918 |
Reporting |
Harold A. Littledale |
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For their history of the services rendered to the public by the American Press during the preceding year. (1918 was the only year in which this particular award was given.) |
1918 |
Newspaper History Award |
Minna Lewinson and Henry Beetle Hough |
|
Houghton |
The Education of Henry Adams |
|
1919 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Henry Adams |
|
Doubleday |
The Magnificent Ambersons |
|
1919 |
Novel |
Booth Tarkington |
|
|
Corn Huskers |
This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society. |
1919 |
Poetry |
Carl Sandburg |
|
|
Old Road to Paradise |
This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society. |
1919 |
Poetry |
Margaret Widdemer |
|
|
The Milwaukee Journal |
For its strong and courageous campaign for Americanism in a constituency where foreign elements made such a policy hazardous from a business point of view. |
1919 |
Public Service |
The Milwaukee Journal |
|
Houghton |
The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. |
|
1920 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Albert J. Beveridge |
|
|
Beyond the Horizon |
|
1920 |
Drama |
Eugene O'Neill |
|
|
Evening World Herald |
For an editorial entitled "Law and the Jungle." |
1920 |
Editorial Writing |
Harvey E. Newbranch |
|
Macmillan |
The War with Mexico, 2 vols. |
|
1920 |
History |
Justin H. Smith |
|
|
New York World |
For the series of articles written during the national coal strike in the winter of 1919. |
1920 |
Reporting |
John J. Leary |
|
Scribner |
The Americanization of Edward Bok |
|
1921 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Edward Bok |
|
|
Miss Lulu Bett |
|
1921 |
Drama |
Zona Gale |
|
Doubleday |
The Victory at Sea |
|
1921 |
History |
William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick |
|
Appleton |
The Age of Innocence |
|
1921 |
Novel |
Edith Wharton |
|
|
The Boston Post |
For its exposure of the operations of Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his arrest. |
1921 |
Public Service |
The Boston Post |
|
|
New York World |
For an interview with President Wilson. |
1921 |
Reporting |
Louis Seibold |
|
Macmillan |
A Daughter of the Middle Border |
|
1922 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Hamlin Garland |
|
|
Anna Christie |
|
1922 |
Drama |
Eugene O'Neill |
|
|
New York World |
For "On the Road to Moscow." |
1922 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Rollin Kirby |
|
|
New York Herald |
For an article entitled, "The Unknown Soldier." |
1922 |
Editorial Writing |
Frank M. O'Brien |
|
Little |
The Founding of New England |
|
1922 |
History |
James Truslow Adams |
|
Doubleday |
Alice Adams |
|
1922 |
Novel |
Booth Tarkington |
|
Macmillan |
Collected Poems |
|
1922 |
Poetry |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
|
|
New York World |
For articles exposing the operations of the Ku Klux Klan, published during September and October, 1921. |
1922 |
Public Service |
New York World |
|
|
Associated Press |
For articles on the burial of "The Unknown Soldier." |
1922 |
Reporting |
Kirke L. Simpson |
|
Houghton |
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
|
1923 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Burton J. Hendrick |
|
|
Icebound |
|
1923 |
Drama |
Owen Davis |
|
|
Emporia (KS) Gazette |
For an editorial entitled "To an Anxious Friend." |
1923 |
Editorial Writing |
William Allen White |
|
Little |
The Supreme Court in United States History |
|
1923 |
History |
Charles Warren |
|
Knopf |
One of Ours |
|
1923 |
Novel |
Willa Cather |
|
Harper |
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany |
|
1923 |
Poetry |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
|
|
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
For its courageous attitude in the publication of cartoons and the handling of news in reference to the operations of the Ku Klux Klan. |
1923 |
Public Service |
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his reports of the proceedings of the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Cambridge Mass., in December, 1922. |
1923 |
Reporting |
Alva Johnston |
|
Scribner |
From Immigrant to Inventor |
|
1924 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Michael Idvorsky Pupin |
|
|
Hell-Bent Fer Heaven |
|
1924 |
Drama |
Hatcher Hughes |
|
|
Des Moines Register & Tribune |
For "In Good Old USA." |
1924 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jay Norwood Darling |
|
|
|
For an editorial entitled "Who Made Coolidge?" |
1924 |
Editorial Writing |
The Boston Herald |
|
Macmillan |
The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation |
|
1924 |
History |
Charles Howard McIlwain |
|
Harper |
The Able McLaughlins |
|
1924 |
Novel |
Margaret Wilson |
|
Holt |
New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes |
|
1924 |
Poetry |
Robert Frost |
|
|
New York World |
For its work in connection with the exposure of the Florida peonage evil. |
1924 |
Public Service |
New York World |
|
|
San Diego Sun |
For his story of the eclipse of the sun. |
1924 |
Reporting |
Magner White |
|
|
New York World |
|
1924 |
Editorial Writing |
Frank I. Cobb |
|
|
New York World |
A special prize of $1000 was awarded to the widow of Frank I. Cobb in recognition of the distinction of her husband's editorial writing and service. |
1924 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Frank I. Cobb |
|
Little |
Barrett Wendell and His Letters |
|
1925 |
Biography or Autobiography |
M. A. Dewolfe Howe |
|
|
They Knew What They Wanted |
|
1925 |
Drama |
Sidney Howard |
|
|
New York World |
For "News from the Outside World." |
1925 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Rollin Kirby |
|
|
Charleston (SC) News and Courier |
For the editorial entitled "Plight of the South." |
1925 |
Editorial Writing |
No author named |
|
Houghton |
History of the American Frontier |
|
1925 |
History |
Frederic L. Paxson |
|
Doubleday |
So Big |
|
1925 |
Novel |
Edna Ferber |
|
Macmillan |
The Man Who Died Twice |
|
1925 |
Poetry |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
|
|
Chicago Daily News |
For their service toward the solution of the murder of Robert Franks, Jr., in Chicago on May 21, 1924, and the bringing to justice of Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb. |
1925 |
Reporting |
James W. Mulroy and Alvin H. Goldstein |
|
Oxford Univ. Press |
The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. |
|
1926 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Harvey Cushing |
|
|
Craig's Wife |
|
1926 |
Drama |
George Kelly |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today." |
1926 |
Editorial Cartooning |
D. R. Fitzpatrick |
|
|
The New York Times |
For the editorial entitled "House of a Hundred Sorrows." |
1926 |
Editorial Writing |
Edward M. Kingsbury |
|
Macmillan |
A History of the United States |
|
1926 |
History |
Edward Channing |
|
Harcourt |
Arrowsmith |
|
1926 |
Novel |
Sinclair Lewis |
|
Houghton |
What's O'Clock |
|
1926 |
Poetry |
Amy Lowell |
|
|
Columbus (GA) Enquirer Sun |
For the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching. |
1926 |
Public Service |
Columbus (GA) Enquirer Sun |
|
|
Louisville Courier-Journal |
For his work in connection with the story of the trapping in Sand Cave, Kentucky, of Floyd Collins. |
1926 |
Reporting |
William Burke Miller |
|
Knopf |
Whitman |
|
1927 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Emory Holloway |
|
|
In Abraham's Bosom |
|
1927 |
Drama |
Paul Green |
|
|
Brooklyn Daily Eagle |
For "May His Shadow Never Grow Less." |
1927 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Nelson Harding |
|
|
Boston Herald |
For the editorial entitled, "We Submit." |
1927 |
Editorial Writing |
F. Lauriston Bullard |
|
Johns Hopkins |
Pinckney's Treaty |
|
1927 |
History |
Samuel Flagg Bemis |
|
Stokes |
Early Autumn |
|
1927 |
Novel |
Louis Bromfield |
|
Knopf |
Fiddler's Farewell |
|
1927 |
Poetry |
Leonora Speyer |
|
|
Canton (Ohio) Daily News |
For its brave, patriotic and effective fight for the ending of a vicious state of affairs brought about by collusion between city authorities and the criminal element, a fight which had a tragic result in the assassination of the editor of the paper, Mr. Don R. Mellett. |
1927 |
Public Service |
Canton (Ohio) Daily News |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For the inquiry leading to the impeachment of Judge George W. English of the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. |
1927 |
Reporting |
John T. Rogers |
|
Doubleday |
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas |
|
1928 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Charles Edward Russell |
|
|
Strange Interlude |
|
1928 |
Drama |
Eugene O'Neill |
|
|
Brooklyn Daily Eagle |
For "May His Shadow Never Grow Less." |
1928 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Nelson Harding |
|
|
Montgomery (AL) Advertiser |
For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance. |
1928 |
Editorial Writing |
Grover Cleveland Hall |
|
Harcourt |
Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. |
|
1928 |
History |
Vernon Louis Parrington |
|
Boni |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
|
1928 |
Novel |
Thornton Wilder |
|
Macmillan |
Tristram |
|
1928 |
Poetry |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
|
|
The Indianapolis Times |
For its work in exposing political corruption to Indiana, prosecuting the guilty and bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil government. |
1928 |
Public Service |
The Indianapolis Times |
|
Houghton |
The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
|
1929 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Burton J. Hendrick |
|
|
Chicago Daily News |
For his coverage of international affairs including the Franco-British Naval Pact and Germany's campaign for revision of the Dawes Plan. |
1929 |
Correspondence |
Paul Scott Mowrer |
|
|
Street Scene |
|
1929 |
Drama |
Elmer L. Rice |
|
|
New York World |
For "Tammany." |
1929 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Rollin Kirby |
|
|
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot |
For his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it. |
1929 |
Editorial Writing |
Louis Isaac Jaffe |
|
A.H. Clark |
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 |
|
1929 |
History |
Fred Albert Shannon |
|
Bobbs |
Scarlet Sister Mary |
|
1929 |
Novel |
Julia Peterkin |
|
Farrar |
John Browns Body |
|
1929 |
Poetry |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
|
|
New York Evening World |
For its effective campaign to correct evils in the administration of justice, including the fight to curb "ambulance chasers," support of the "fence" bill, and measures to simplify procedure, prevent perjury and eliminate politics from municipal courts; a campaign which has been instrumental in securing remedial action. |
1929 |
Public Service |
New York Evening World |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For his highly effective work in bringing to light a situation which resulted in revealing the disposition of Liberty Bonds purchased and distributed by the Continental Trading Company in connection with naval oil leases. |
1929 |
Reporting |
Paul Y. Anderson |
|
|
The Auburn Citizen |
A special prize for his reportorial work in connection with the outbreak at Auburn prison during December, 1929. |
1930 |
|
William O. Dapping |
|
Bobbs |
The Raven |
|
1930 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Marquis James |
|
|
New York Herald Tribune |
For the series of articles covering conferences on reparations and the establishment of the international bank |
1930 |
Correspondence |
Leland Stowe |
|
|
The Green Pastures |
|
1930 |
Drama |
Marc Connelly |
|
|
Brooklyn Daily Eagle |
For "Paying for a Dead Horse." |
1930 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Charles R. Macauley |
|
Houghton |
The War of Independence |
|
1930 |
History |
Claude H. Van Tyne |
|
Houghton |
Laughing Boy |
|
1930 |
Novel |
Oliver Lafarge |
|
Scribner |
Selected Poems |
|
1930 |
Poetry |
Conrad Aiken |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his reports by radio of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. |
1930 |
Reporting |
Russell D. Owen |
|
|
Auburn Citizen |
A special prize for his reportorial work in connection with the outbreak at Auburn prison during December 1929. |
1930 |
Special Awards and Citations |
William O. Dapping |
|
Houghton |
Charles W. Eliot |
|
1931 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Henry James |
|
|
Philadelphia Public Ledger and New York Evening Post |
For a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia. |
1931 |
Correspondence |
H. R. Knickerbocker |
|
|
Alison's House |
|
1931 |
Drama |
Susan Glaspell |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For "An Old Struggle Still Going On." |
1931 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Edmund Duffy |
|
|
Fremont (NE) Tribune |
For the editorial entitled "The Gentlemen from Nebraska." |
1931 |
Editorial Writing |
Charles S. Ryckman |
|
Scribner |
The Coming of the War 1914 |
|
1931 |
History |
Bernadotte E. Schmitt |
|
Houghton |
Years of Grace |
|
1931 |
Novel |
Margaret Ayer Barnes |
|
Holt |
Collected Poems |
|
1931 |
Poetry |
Robert Frost |
|
|
The Atlanta Constitution |
For a successful municipal graft exposure and consequent convictions. |
1931 |
Public Service |
The Atlanta Constitution |
|
|
Kansas City (MO) Star |
For his work in connection with a murder in Amarillo, Texas. |
1931 |
Reporting |
A. B. MacDonald |
|
Harcourt |
Theodore Roosevelt |
|
1932 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Henry F. Pringle |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For his article entitled, "The Country's Plight -- What Can Be Done About It?" -- a discussion of economic situation of the United States. |
1932 |
Correspondence |
Charles G. Ross |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his series of dispatches on Russia especially the working out of the Five Year Plan. |
1932 |
Correspondence |
Walter Duranty |
|
|
Of Thee I Sing |
|
1932 |
Drama |
George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." |
1932 |
Editorial Cartooning |
John T. McCutcheon |
|
Stokes |
My Experiences in the World War |
|
1932 |
History |
John J. Pershing |
|
John Day |
The Good Earth |
|
1932 |
Novel |
Pearl S. Buck |
|
Viking |
The Flowering Stone |
|
1932 |
Poetry |
George Dillon |
|
|
Indianapolis News |
For its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy. |
1932 |
Public Service |
Indianapolis News |
|
|
Detroit Free Press |
For their account of the parade of the America Legion during the 1931 convention in Detroit. |
1932 |
Reporting |
W.C. Richards, D.D. Martin, J.S. Pooler, F.D. Webb and J.N.W. Sloan |
|
Dodd |
Grover Cleveland |
|
1933 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Allan Nevins |
|
|
Chicago Daily News |
For his day-by-day coverage and interpretation of the series of German political crises in 1932, beginning with the presidential election and the struggle of Adolph Hitler for public office. |
1933 |
Correspondence |
Edgar Ansel Mowrer |
|
|
Both Your Houses |
|
1933 |
Drama |
Maxwell Anderson |
|
|
Washington Daily News |
For "The Light of Asia." |
1933 |
Editorial Cartooning |
H. M. Talburt |
|
|
Kansas City (MO) Star |
For its series of editorials on national and international topics. |
1933 |
Editorial Writing |
No author named |
|
Holt |
The Significance of Sections in American History |
|
1933 |
History |
Frederick J. Turner |
|
Doubleday |
The Store |
|
1933 |
Novel |
T. S. Stribling |
|
Houghton |
Conquistador |
|
1933 |
Poetry |
Archibald Macleish |
|
|
New York World-Telegram |
For its series of articles on veterans relief, on the real estate bond evil, the campaign urging voters in the late New York City municipal election to "write in" the name of Joseph V. McKee, and the articles exposing the lottery schemes of various fraternal organizations. |
1933 |
Public Service |
New York World-Telegram |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his prompt, full, skillful and prolonged coverage of news of the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh on March 1, 1932, from the first announcement of the kidnapping until after the discovery of the baby's body nearby the Lindbergh home on May 12. |
1933 |
Reporting |
Francis A. Jamieson |
|
Dodd |
John Hay |
|
1934 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Tyler Dennett |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his correspondence from Europe |
1934 |
Correspondence |
Frederick T. Birchall |
|
|
Men in White |
|
1934 |
Drama |
Sidney Kingsley |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For "California Points with Pride!" |
1934 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Edmund Duffy |
|
|
Atlantic (IA) News-Telegraph |
For an editorial entitled, "Where is Our Money ?" |
1934 |
Editorial Writing |
E. P. Chase |
|
Houghton |
The People's Choice |
|
1934 |
History |
Herbert Agar |
|
Harper |
Lamb in His Bosom |
|
1934 |
Novel |
Caroline Miller |
|
Knopf |
Collected Verse |
|
1934 |
Poetry |
Robert Hillyer |
|
|
Medford (OR) Mail Tribune |
For its campaign against unscrupulous politicians in Jackson County, Oregon. |
1934 |
Public Service |
Medford (OR) Mail Tribune |
|
|
San Francisco Chronicle |
For his account of the lynching of the kidnappers, John M. Holmes and Thomas H. Thurmond in San Jose, Calif., on Nov. 26, 1933 after they had been jailed for abducting Brooke Hart, a merchant's son. |
1934 |
Reporting |
Royce Brier |
|
Scribner |
R. E. Lee |
|
1935 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Douglas S. Freeman |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his Washington dispatches |
1935 |
Correspondence |
Arthur Krock |
|
|
The Old Maid |
|
1935 |
Drama |
Zoe Akins |
|
|
The Milwaukee Journal |
For "Sure, I'll Work for Both Sides." |
1935 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Ross A. Lewis |
|
Yale Univ. Press |
The Colonial Period of American History |
|
1935 |
History |
Charles McLean Andrews |
|
Simon & Schuster |
Now in November |
|
1935 |
Novel |
Josephine Winslow Johnson |
|
John Day |
Bright Ambush |
|
1935 |
Poetry |
Audrey Wurdemann |
|
|
The Sacramento (CA) Bee |
For its campaign against political machine influence in the appointment of two Federal judges in Nevada. |
1935 |
Public Service |
The Sacramento (CA) Bee |
|
|
New York Herald Tribune |
For his series of articles on the international yacht races. |
1935 |
Reporting |
William H. Taylor |
|
Little |
The Thought and Character of William James |
|
1936 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Ralph Barton Perry |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For his reports of the war in Ethiopia. (A posthumous award.) |
1936 |
Correspondence |
Wilfred C. Barber |
|
|
Idiots Delight |
|
1936 |
Drama |
Robert E. Sherwood |
|
|
Washington Post and Scripps-Howard Newspapers |
For distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1936 |
Editorial Writing |
Felix Morley and George B. Parker |
|
Appleton |
A Constitutional History of the United States |
|
1936 |
History |
Andrew C. McLaughlin |
|
Harper |
Honey in the Horn |
|
1936 |
Novel |
Harold L. Davis |
|
Macmillan |
Strange Holiness |
|
1936 |
Poetry |
Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
|
|
Cedar Rapids Gazette |
For its crusade against corruption and misgovernment in the State of Iowa. |
1936 |
Public Service |
Cedar Rapids Gazette |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his exclusive story revealing that the Charles A. Lindbergh family was leaving the United States to live in England. |
1936 |
Reporting |
Lauren D. Lyman |
|
Dodd |
Hamilton Fish |
|
1937 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Allan Nevins |
|
|
New York Times |
For her dispatches and feature articles from Europe in 1936. |
1937 |
Correspondence |
Anne O'Hare McCormick |
|
|
You Can't Take It With You |
|
1937 |
Drama |
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman |
|
|
New York Daily News |
For "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy." |
1937 |
Editorial Cartooning |
C.D. Batchelor |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1937 |
Editorial Writing |
John W. Owens |
|
Dutton |
The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 |
|
1937 |
History |
Van Wyck Brooks |
|
Macmillan |
Gone With the Wind |
|
1937 |
Novel |
Margaret Mitchell |
|
Holt |
A Further Range |
|
1937 |
Poetry |
Robert Frost |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For its exposure of wholesale fraudulent registration in St. Louis. By a coordinated news, editorial and cartoon campaign this newspaper succeeded in invalidating upwards of 40,000 fraudulent ballots in November and brought about the appointment of a new election board. |
1937 |
Public Service |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
|
|
New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times, AP, Universal Service and Scripps-Howard |
For their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University. |
1937 |
Reporting |
John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz |
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Edmonton Journal |
A special bronze plaque for its editorial leadership in defense of the freedom of the press in the province of Alberta, Canada. |
1938 |
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No author named |
|
Bobbs |
Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. |
|
1938 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Marquis James |
|
Little |
Pedlar's Progress |
|
1938 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Odell Shepard |
|
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The New York Times |
For his exclusive authorized interview with the President of the United States on February 27, 1937. |
1938 |
Correspondence |
Arthur Krock |
|
|
Our Town |
|
1938 |
Drama |
Thornton Wilder |
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|
Chicago Daily News |
For "The Road Back." |
1938 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Vaughn Shoemaker |
|
|
Register and Tribune |
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1938 |
Editorial Writing |
William Wesley Waymack |
|
Little |
The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 |
|
1938 |
History |
Paul Herman Buck |
|
Little |
The Late George Apley |
|
1938 |
Novel |
John Phillips Marquand |
|
Macmillan |
Cold Morning Sky |
|
1938 |
Poetry |
Marya Zaturenska |
|
|
Bismarck (ND) Tribune |
For its news reports and editorials entitled, "Self Help in the Dust Bowl." |
1938 |
Public Service |
Bismarck (ND) Tribune |
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|
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
For his series of articles, supported by photostats of the essential documents, exposing the one-time membership of Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan. |
1938 |
Reporting |
Raymond Sprigle |
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A special bronze plaque for its editorial leadership against the Accurate News and Information Act, in defense of the freedom of the press, in the Province of Alberta, Canada. |
1938 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Edmonton Journal |
|
Viking |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
1939 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Carl Van Doren |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his dispatches from Berlin |
1939 |
Correspondence |
Louis P. Lochner |
|
|
Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
|
1939 |
Drama |
Robert E. Sherwood |
|
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Daily Oklahoman |
For "Nomination for 1938." |
1939 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Charles G. Werner |
|
|
The Oregonian |
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee." |
1939 |
Editorial Writing |
Ronald G. Callvert |
|
Harvard Univ. Press |
A History of American Magazines |
|
1939 |
History |
Frank Luther Mott |
|
Scribner |
The Yearling |
|
1939 |
Novel |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
|
Farrar |
Selected Poems |
|
1939 |
Poetry |
John Gould Fletcher |
|
|
Miami Daily News |
For its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission. |
1939 |
Public Service |
Miami Daily News |
|
|
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance |
For his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in The New York World-Telegram. |
1939 |
Reporting |
Thomas Lunsford Stokes |
|
Doubleday |
Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII |
|
1940 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Ray Stannard Baker |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his dispatches from Berlin. |
1940 |
Correspondence |
Otto D. Tolischus |
|
|
The Time of Your Life |
|
1940 |
Drama |
William Saroyan |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For "The Outstretched Hand." |
1940 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Edmund Duffy |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1940 |
Editorial Writing |
Bart Howard |
|
Harcourt |
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years |
|
1940 |
History |
Carl Sandburg |
|
Viking |
The Grapes of Wrath |
|
1940 |
Novel |
John Steinbeck |
|
Holt |
Collected Poems |
|
1940 |
Poetry |
Mark Van Doren |
|
|
Waterbury (CT) Republican & American |
For its campaign exposing municipal graft. |
1940 |
Public Service |
Waterbury (CT) Republican & American |
|
|
New York World-Telegram |
For his expose of the frauds perpetrated by Federal Judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned. |
1940 |
Reporting |
S. Burton Heath |
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|
The New York Times |
For the public educational value of its foreign news report, exemplified by its scope, by excellence of writing and presentation and supplementary background information, illustration, and interpretation. |
1941 |
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No author named |
|
Macmillan |
Jonathan Edward |
|
1941 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Ola Elizabeth Winslow |
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|
In place of an individual Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence, the Trustees approved the recommendation of the Advisory Board that a bronze plaque or scroll be designed and executed to recognize and symbolize the public services and the individual achievements of American news reporters in the war zones of Europe, Asia and Africa from the beginning of the present war. |
1941 |
Correspondence |
Group Award |
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There Shall Be No Night |
|
1941 |
Drama |
Robert E. Sherwood |
|
|
Chicago Times |
For "If I Should Die Before I Wake." |
1941 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jacob Burck |
|
|
New York Daily News |
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1941 |
Editorial Writing |
Reuben Maury |
|
Harvard Univ. Press |
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 |
|
1941 |
History |
Marcus Lee Hansen |
|
Harper |
Sunderland Capture |
|
1941 |
Poetry |
Leonard Bacon |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For its successful campaign against the city smoke nuisance. |
1941 |
Public Service |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
|
|
New York World-Telegram |
For his articles on scandals in the ranks of organized labor, which led to the exposure and conviction of George Scalise, a labor racketeer. |
1941 |
Reporting |
Westbrook Pegler |
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For the public educational value of its foreign news report, exemplified by its scope, by excellence of writing and presentation and supplementary background information, illustration, and interpretation. |
1941 |
Special Awards and Citations |
The New York Times |
|
Lippincott |
Crusader in Crinoline |
|
1942 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Forrest Wilson |
|
|
Philippines Herald |
For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia. |
1942 |
Correspondence |
Carlos P. Romulo |
|
Herblock |
NEA service |
For "British Plane." |
1942 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Herbert Lawrence Block |
|
|
New York Herald Tribune |
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1942 |
Editorial Writing |
Geoffrey Parsons |
|
Harper |
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 |
|
1942 |
History |
Margaret Leech |
|
Harcourt |
In This Our Life |
|
1942 |
Novel |
Ellen Glasgow |
|
|
The Detroit News |
For his photo entitled, "Ford Strikers Riot." |
1942 |
Photography |
Milton Brooks |
|
Dodd |
The Dust Which Is God |
|
1942 |
Poetry |
William Rose Benet |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For its successful campaign which resulted in the clarification and confirmation for all American newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the Constitution. |
1942 |
Public Service |
Los Angeles Times |
|
|
San Francisco Chronicle |
For his articles on the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty ninth state. |
1942 |
Reporting |
Stanton Delaplane |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his stories of the activities of the British Mediterranean Fleet, written as an accredited correspondent attached to the fleet. |
1942 |
|
Laurence Edmund Allen |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his distinguished reporting of important labor stories during the year. |
1942 |
|
Louis Stark |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his stories of the activities of the British Mediterranean Fleet, written as an accredited correspondent attached to the fleet. |
1942 |
Telegraphic Reporting - International |
Laurence Edmund Allen |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his distinguished reporting of important labor stories during the year. |
1942 |
Telegraphic Reporting - National |
Louis Stark |
|
Little |
Admiral of the Ocean Sea |
|
1943 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Samuel Eliot Morison |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his report of his wartime tour of the Southwest Pacific. |
1943 |
Correspondence |
Hanson W. Baldwin |
|
|
The Skin of Our Teeth |
|
1943 |
Drama |
Thornton Wilder |
|
|
Des Moines Register & Tribune |
For "What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign." |
1943 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jay Norwood Darling |
|
|
Register and Tribune |
For his editorials published during the calendar year 1942. |
1943 |
Editorial Writing |
Forrest W. Seymour |
|
Houghton |
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In |
|
1943 |
History |
Esther Forbes |
|
|
Secular Cantata No. 2. A Free Song |
Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York. |
1943 |
Music |
William Schuman |
|
Viking |
Dragon's Teeth |
|
1943 |
Novel |
Upton Sinclair |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his photo entitled, "Water!" serviced by the AP. |
1943 |
Photography |
Frank Noel |
|
Holt |
A Witness Tree |
|
1943 |
Poetry |
Robert Frost |
|
|
Omaha (NE) World-Herald |
For its initiative and originality in planning a state-wide campaign for the collection of scrap metal for the war effort. The Nebraska plan was adopted on a national scale by the daily newspapers, resulting in a united effort which succeeded in supplying our war industries with necessary scrap material. |
1943 |
Public Service |
Omaha (NE) World-Herald |
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Chicago Daily News |
For his graphic story of how a U.S. Navy Pharmacist's Mate under enemy waters in a submarine performed an operation for appendicitis saving a sailor's life. |
1943 |
Reporting |
George Weller |
|
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North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. |
For his series of three articles on the fifth battle of the Solomons. |
1943 |
|
Ira Wolfert |
|
|
North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. |
For his series of three articles on the fifth battle of the Solomons. |
1943 |
Telegraphic Reporting - International |
Ira Wolfert |
|
|
|
For the creation and administration of the newspaper and radio codes.
At the same time, the members of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Journalism deplore certain acts and policies of Army and Navy censorship in the handling of news at the source, and for the unreasonable suppression of information to which the American people are entitled. |
1944 |
|
Byron Price |
|
|
|
A scroll indicating appreciation of Mr. White interest and services during the past seven years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. |
1944 |
|
Mrs. William Allen White |
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|
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A special award for Oklahoma. |
1944 |
|
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
|
Knopf |
The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse |
|
1944 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Carleton Mabee |
|
|
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance |
For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1943 |
1944 |
Correspondence |
Ernest Taylor Pyle |
|
|
The Evening Star |
For "Where Is the Boat Going?" |
1944 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Clifford K. Berryman |
|
|
Kansas City (MO) Star |
For editorials written during the calendar year 1943. |
1944 |
Editorial Writing |
Henry J. Haskell |
|
Harper |
The Growth of American Thought |
|
1944 |
History |
Merle Curti |
|
|
Symphony No. 4. Opus 34 |
Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 3, 1943. |
1944 |
Music |
Howard Hanson |
|
Harper |
Journey in the Dark |
|
1944 |
Novel |
Martin Flavin |
|
|
The World-Herald |
For his photo entitled, "Homecoming." |
1944 |
Photography |
Earle L. Bunker |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his photo entitled, "Tarawa Island," serviced by the AP. |
1944 |
Photography |
Frank Filan |
|
Farrar |
Western Star |
|
1944 |
Poetry |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
|
|
The New York Times |
For its survey of the teaching of American History. |
1944 |
Public Service |
The New York Times |
|
|
New York Journal-American |
For a news story published on August 12, 1943, which saved the life of a two-year-old girl in the Lutheran Hospital of New York City by obtaining penicillin. |
1944 |
Reporting |
Paul Schoenstein and Associates |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943. |
1944 |
|
Daniel De Luce |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943. |
1944 |
|
Dewey L. Fleming |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943. |
1944 |
Telegraphic Reporting - International |
Daniel De Luce |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943. |
1944 |
Telegraphic Reporting - National |
Dewey L. Fleming |
|
|
|
For the creation and administration of the newspaper and radio codes. (Byron Price [1891–1981] was director of the U.S. Office of Censorship during World War II.) |
1944 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Byron Price |
|
|
|
For Oklahoma! |
1944 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
|
|
|
A scroll indicating appreciation of Mr. White's interest and services during the past seven years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. (Presented posthumously to Mrs. William Allen White.) |
1944 |
Special Awards and Citations |
William Allen White |
|
|
|
For maps of the war fronts that have helped notably to clarify and increase public information on the progress of the Armies and Navies engaged. |
1945 |
Public Service |
Cartographers of the American press |
|
Knopf |
George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel |
|
1945 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Russell Blaine Nye |
|
|
Associated Press |
For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1944. |
1945 |
Correspondence |
Harold V. (Hal) Boyle |
|
|
Harvey |
|
1945 |
Drama |
Mary Chase |
|
|
United Feature Syndicate, Inc. |
For distinguished service as a cartoonist, as exemplified by the cartoon entitled, "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners," in the series entitled, "Up Front With Mauldin." |
1945 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Sergeant Bill Mauldin |
|
|
The Providence Journal-Bulletin |
For his editorials published during the calendar year 1944, especially for his editorials on the subject of freedom of the press. |
1945 |
Editorial Writing |
George W. Potter |
|
Doubleday |
Unfinished Business |
|
1945 |
History |
Stephen Bonsal |
|
|
Appalachian Spring |
A ballet written for and presented by Martha Graham and group, commissioned by Mrs. E. S. Coolidge, first presented at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. October, 1944. |
1945 |
Music |
Aaron Copland |
|
Knopf |
A Bell for Adano |
|
1945 |
Novel |
John Hersey |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his photograph of the Marines planting the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. |
1945 |
Photography |
Joe Rosenthal |
|
Reynal |
V-Letter and Other Poems |
|
1945 |
Poetry |
Karl Shapiro |
|
|
Detroit Free Press |
For its investigation of legislative graft and corruption at Lansing, Michigan. |
1945 |
Public Service |
Detroit Free Press |
|
|
San Francisco Call-Bulletin |
For his campaign to encourage blood donations. |
1945 |
Reporting |
Jack S. McDowell |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his news dispatches and interpretive articles on the Dumbarton Oaks security conference. |
1945 |
|
James B. Reston |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For his distinguished reporting during the year 1944 from Washington, London and the fronts in Sicily, Italy, and France. |
1945 |
Telegraphic Reporting - International |
Mark S. Watson |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his news dispatches and interpretive articles on the Dumbarton Oaks security conference. |
1945 |
Telegraphic Reporting - National |
James B. Reston |
|
|
|
For maps of the war fronts that have helped notably to clarify and increase public information on the progress of the Armies and Navies engaged. |
1945 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Cartographers of the American press |
|
Knopf |
Son of the Wilderness |
|
1946 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Linnie Marsh Wolfe |
|
|
The New York Times |
For distinguished correspondence during the year 1945, as exemplified by his reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1946 |
Correspondence |
Arnaldo Cortesi |
|
|
State of the Union |
|
1946 |
Drama |
Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For "Time to Bridge That Gulch." |
1946 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Bruce Alexander Russell |
|
|
The Delta Democrat-Times |
For a group of editorials published during the year 1945 on the subject of racial, religious and economic intolerance, as exemplified by the editorial "Go for Broke." |
1946 |
Editorial Writing |
Hodding Carter |
|
|
The Age of Jackson |
|
1946 |
History |
Arthur Meier Schlesinger |
|
|
The Canticle of the Sun |
Commissioned by the Alice M Ditson Fund, first performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York, April 1945. |
1946 |
Music |
Leo Sowerby |
|
|
The Scranton Times |
For its fifteen-year investigation of judicial practices in the United States District Court for the middle district of Pennsylvania, resulting in removal of the District Judge and indictment of many others. |
1946 |
Public Service |
The Scranton Times |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his eye-witness account of the atom-bombing of Nagasaki and his subsequent ten articles on the development, production, and significance of the atomic bomb. |
1946 |
Reporting |
William Leonard Laurence |
|
|
New York Herald Tribune |
For his distinguished reporting during the year 1945 from the Pacific war theatre. |
1946 |
|
Homer William Bigart |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For his articles on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the nation-wide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy. |
1946 |
|
Edward A. Harris |
|
|
New York Herald Tribune |
For his distinguished reporting during the year 1945 from the Pacific war theatre. |
1946 |
Telegraphic Reporting - International |
Homer William Bigart |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For his articles on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the nation-wide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy. |
1946 |
Telegraphic Reporting - National |
Edward A. Harris |
|
|
|
For their efforts to maintain and advance the high standards governing the Pulitzer Prize awards (Pulitzer centennial year). |
1947 |
|
No author named |
|
Macmillan |
The Autobiography of William Allen White |
|
1947 |
Biography or Autobiography |
William Allen White |
|
|
The New York Times |
For distinguished correspondence during 1946, as exemplified by his series of articles on Russia. |
1947 |
Correspondence |
Brooks Atkinson |
|
|
Chicago Daily News |
For his cartoon, "Still Racing His Shadow." |
1947 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Vaughn Shoemaker |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1947 |
Editorial Writing |
William H. Grimes |
|
Little |
Scientists Against Time |
|
1947 |
History |
James Phinney Baxter 3rd |
|
|
Symphony No. 3 |
First performed by Lou Harrison and Chamber Orchestra in New York, April, 1946. |
1947 |
Music |
Charles Ives |
|
Harcourt |
All the King's Men |
|
1947 |
Novel |
Robert Penn Warren |
|
|
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For his photo of a woman falling from a burning hotel, distributed by the AP. |
1947 |
Photography |
Arnold Hardy |
|
Harcourt |
Lord Weary's Castle |
|
1947 |
Poetry |
Robert Lowell |
|
|
Baltimore Sun |
For its series of articles by Howard M. Norton dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court of 93 persons. |
1947 |
Public Service |
Baltimore Sun |
|
|
New York World-Telegram |
For his articles during 1946 on the infiltration of Communism in the U.S. |
1947 |
Reporting |
Frederick Woltman |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his correspondence from Moscow in 1946. |
1947 |
|
Eddy Gilmore |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his series of articles published during 1946 on the Columbians, Inc.. |
1947 |
|
Edward T. Folliard |
|
|
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For its unswerving adherence to the public and professional ideals of its founder and its constructive leadership in the field of American journalism. |
1947 |
|
No author named |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his correspondence from Moscow in 1946. |
1947 |
Telegraphic Reporting - International |
Eddy Gilmore |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his series of articles published during 1946 on the Columbians, Inc.. |
1947 |
Telegraphic Reporting - National |
Edward T. Folliard |
|
|
|
For its unswerving adherence to the public and professional ideals of its founder and its constructive leadership in the field of American journalism. |
1947 |
Special Awards and Citations |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
|
|
|
For their efforts to maintain and advance the high standards governing the Pulitzer Prize awards. |
1947 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Columbia University and the Graduate School of Journalism |
|
|
|
A scroll indicating appreciation of Dr. Fackenthal's interest and service during the past years. |
1948 |
|
Dr. Frank Diehl Fackenthal |
|
Little |
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow |
|
1948 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Margaret Clapp |
|
|
A Streetcar Named Desire |
|
1948 |
Drama |
Tennessee Williams |
|
|
New York Sun |
For "Peace Today." |
1948 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Reuben L. Goldberg |
|
|
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
For distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1948 |
Editorial Writing |
Virginius Dabney |
|
Macmillan |
Tales of the South Pacific |
|
1948 |
Fiction |
James A. Michener |
|
Houghton |
Across the Wide Missouri |
|
1948 |
History |
Bernard Devoto |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For his series of articles published in 1947 on "Life in the Soviet Union." |
1948 |
International Reporting |
Paul W. Ward |
|
|
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
For his story of the Telfair County vote fraud, published in 1947. |
1948 |
Local Reporting |
George E. Goodwin |
|
|
Symphony, No. 3 |
First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, January, 1948. |
1948 |
Music |
Walter Piston |
|
|
Minneapolis Tribune |
For his stories on the plan of the Truman administration to impose secrecy about the ordinary affairs of federal civilian agencies in peacetime. |
1948 |
National Reporting |
Nat S. Finney |
|
|
New York Herald Tribune |
For his articles on "A State Department Security Case" published in I947. |
1948 |
National Reporting |
Bert Andrews |
|
|
Boston Traveler |
For his photo, "Boy Gunman and Hostage." |
1948 |
Photography |
Frank Cushing |
|
Random |
The Age of Anxiety |
|
1948 |
Poetry |
W. H. Auden |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For the coverage of the Centralia, Illinois, mine disaster and the follow-up which resulted in impressive reforms in mine safety laws and regulations. |
1948 |
Public Service |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
|
|
|
A scroll indicating appreciation of Dr. Fackenthal's interest and service during the past years. |
1948 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Dr. Frank D. Fackenthal |
|
Harper |
Roosevelt and Hopkins |
|
1949 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Robert E. Sherwood |
|
|
Death of a Salesman |
|
1949 |
Drama |
Arthur Miller |
|
|
Newark Evening News |
For "Who Me?" |
1949 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Lute Pease |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1949 |
Editorial Writing |
Herbert Elliston |
|
|
The Boston Herald |
For distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1949 |
Editorial Writing |
John H. Crider |
|
Harcourt |
Guard of Honor |
|
1949 |
Fiction |
James Gould Cozzens |
|
Macmillan |
The Disruption of American Democracy |
|
1949 |
History |
Roy Franklin Nichols |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For his series of 12 articles entitled, "Experiment in Freedom: India and Its First Year of Independence." |
1949 |
International Reporting |
Price Day |
|
|
New York Sun |
For his series of 24 articles entitled "Crime on the Waterfront" in New York City. |
1949 |
Local Reporting |
Malcolm Johnson |
|
|
Music for the film Louisiana Story |
Released in 1948 by Robert Flaherty Productions. |
1949 |
Music |
Virgil Thomson |
|
|
The New York Times |
For consistent excellence covering the national scene from Washington. |
1949 |
National Reporting |
C. P. Trussell |
|
|
New York Herald-Tribune |
For his photo, "Babe Ruth Bows Out." |
1949 |
Photography |
Nathaniel Fein |
|
Scribner |
Terror and Decorum |
|
1949 |
Poetry |
Peter Viereck |
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Nebraska State Journal |
For the campaign establishing the "Nebraska All-Star Primary" presidential preference primary which spotlighted, through a bi-partisan committee, issues early in the presidential campaign. |
1949 |
Public Service |
Nebraska State Journa |
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Knopf |
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy |
|
1950 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Samuel Flagg Bemis |
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South Pacific |
|
1950 |
Drama |
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan |
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The Evening Star |
For "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington." |
1950 |
Editorial Cartooning |
James T. Berryman |
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Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot |
For distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1950 |
Editorial Writing |
Carl M. Saunders |
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Sloane |
The Way West |
|
1950 |
Fiction |
A. B. Guthrie |
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Rinehart |
Art and Life in America |
|
1950 |
History |
Oliver W. Larkin |
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The Christian Science Monitor |
For his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored." |
1950 |
International Reporting |
Edmund Stevens |
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The New York Times |
For his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, N.J. |
1950 |
Local Reporting |
Meyer Berger |
|
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Music in The Consul |
Produced at the Barrymore Theater, New York. |
1950 |
Music |
Gian-Carlo Menotti |
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The Seattle Times |
For his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school. |
1950 |
National Reporting |
Edwin O. Guthman |
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Oakland (CA) Tribune |
For his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show." |
1950 |
Photography |
Bill Crouch |
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Harper |
Annie Allen |
|
1950 |
Poetry |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
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Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll. |
1950 |
Public Service |
Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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The New York Times |
For his exclusive interview with Archbishop Stepinac. |
1951 |
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Cyrus L. Sulzberger |
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The New York Times |
The Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prizes as a policy does not make any award to an individual member of the Board. In 1951, the Board decided that the outstanding instance of National Reporting done in 1950 was the exclusive interview with President Truman obtained by Arthur Krock of The New York Times, while Mr. Krock was a Board member. The Board therefore made no award in the National Reporting category. |
1951 |
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Arthur Krock |
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Houghton |
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait |
|
1951 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Margaret Louise Coit |
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Arizona Republic |
For "Hats." |
1951 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Reg (Reginald W.) Manning |
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New Orleans States |
For his series of editorials analyzing and clarifying a very important constitutional issue, which is described by the general heading of the series, "Government by Treaty." |
1951 |
Editorial Writing |
William Harry Fitzpatrick |
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Knopf |
The Town |
|
1951 |
Fiction |
Conrad Richter |
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Towers |
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 |
|
1951 |
History |
R. Carlyle Buley |
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For their reporting of the Korean War. |
1951 |
International Reporting |
Keyes Beech, Homer Bigart, Marguerite Higgins, Relman Morin, Fred Sparks and Don Whitehead |
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San Francisco Examiner |
For his series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an expose within the Bureau of Internal Revenue. |
1951 |
Local Reporting |
Edward S. Montgomery |
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Music in "Giants in the Earth" |
Produced by Columbia Opera Workshop, March 28, 1951. |
1951 |
Music |
Douglas S. Moore |
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Associated Press |
For his photographic coverage of the Korean War, an outstanding example of which is, "Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea." |
1951 |
Photography |
Max Desfor |
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Harcourt |
Complete Poems |
|
1951 |
Poetry |
Carl Sandburg |
|
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Miami Herald and Brooklyn Eagle |
For their crime reporting during the year. |
1951 |
Public Service |
Miami Herald and Brooklyn Eagle |
|
|
The New York Times |
The Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prizes as a policy does not make any award to an individual member of the Board. In 1951, the Board decided that the outstanding instance of National Reporting done in 1950 was the exclusive interview with President Truman obtained by Arthur Krock of The New York Times, while Mr. Krock was a Board member. The Board therefore made no award in the National Reporting category. |
1951 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Arthur Krock |
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The New York Times |
For his exclusive interview with Archbishop Stepinac. |
1951 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Cyrus L. Sulzberger |
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New York Journal-American |
For his exclusive exposures of bribery and other forms of corruption in the popular American sport of basketball, which exposures tended to restore confidence in the game's integrity. |
1952 |
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Max Kase |
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Kansas City Star |
For the news coverage of the great regional flood of 1951 in Kansas and Northwestern Missouri-a distinguished example of editing and reporting that also gave the advance information that achieved the maximum of public protection. |
1952 |
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No author named |
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Macmillan |
Charles Evans Hughes |
|
1952 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Merlo J. Pusey |
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The Shrike |
|
1952 |
Drama |
Joseph Kramm |
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New York Mirror |
For "Your Editors Ought to Have More Sense Than to Print What I Say!" |
1952 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Fred L. Packer |
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St. Louis Globe Democrat |
For his editorial entitled, "The Low Estate of Public Morals." |
1952 |
Editorial Writing |
Louis LaCoss |
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Doubleday |
The Caine Mutiny |
|
1952 |
Fiction |
Herman Wouk |
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Little |
The Uprooted |
|
1952 |
History |
Oscar Handlin |
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Associated Press |
For the sustained quality of his coverage of news of international affairs during the year. |
1952 |
International Reporting |
John M. Hightower |
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San Francisco Chronicle |
For his stories of a "ransom racket" extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held in Red China. |
1952 |
Local Reporting |
George De Carvalho |
|
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Symphony Concertante |
Performed at Town Hall, January, 7, 1952. |
1952 |
Music |
Gail Kubik |
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The New York Times |
For his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October, 1950. |
1952 |
National Reporting |
Anthony Leviero |
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Des Moines Register and Tribune |
For their sequence of 6 pictures of the Drake-Oklahoma A & M football game of October 20, 1951, in which player Johnny Bright's jaw was broken. |
1952 |
Photography |
John Robinson and Don Ultang |
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Macmillan |
Collected Poems |
|
1952 |
Poetry |
Marianne Moore |
|
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For its investigation and disclosures of wide spread corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau and other departments of the government. |
1952 |
Public Service |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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For the news coverage of the great regional flood of 1951 in Kansas and Northwestern Missouri - a distinguished example of editing and reporting that also gave the advance information that achieved the maximum of public protection. |
1952 |
Special Awards and Citations |
The Kansas City Star |
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New York Journal-American |
For his exclusive exposures of bribery and other forms of corruption in the popular American sport of basketball, which exposures tended to restore confidence in the game's integrity. |
1952 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Max Kase |
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The New York Times |
For the section of its Sunday newspaper edited by Lester Markel and headed, "Review of the Week," which for seventeen years has brought enlightenment and intelligent commentary to its readers. |
1953 |
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No author named |
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Harvard Univ. Press |
Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 |
|
1953 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David J. Mays |
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Picnic |
|
1953 |
Drama |
William Inge |
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Cleveland Plain Dealer |
For "Aftermath." |
1953 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Edward D. Kuekes |
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The Wall Street Journal |
For distinguished editorial writing during the year. |
1953 |
Editorial Writing |
Vermont Connecticut Royster |
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Scribner |
The Old Man and the Sea |
|
1953 |
Fiction |
Ernest Hemingway |
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Harcourt |
The Era of Good Feelings |
|
1953 |
History |
George Dangerfield |
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The Milwaukee Journal |
For a series of articles on Canada. |
1953 |
International Reporting |
Austin Wehrwein |
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Providence (RI) Journal and Evening Bulletin |
For their spontaneous and cooperative coverage of a bank robbery and police chase leading to the capture of the bandit. |
1953 |
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Editorial Staff |
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New York World-Telegram & Sun |
For his reporting of the facts which brought vindication and freedom to Louis Hoffner. |
1953 |
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Edward J. Mowery |
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Associated Press |
For his article called "The Great Deception," dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safety of President-elect Eisenhower was guarded enroute from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea. |
1953 |
National Reporting |
Don Whitehead |
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Flint (MI) Journal |
For a photo of ex-Governor Adlai E. Stevenson with a hole in his shoe taken during the 1952 Presidential campaign. |
1953 |
Photography |
William M. Gallagher |
|
Houghton |
Collected Poems 1917-1952 |
|
1953 |
Poetry |
Archibald MacLeish |
|
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Whiteville News Reporter and Tabor City Tribune |
For their successful campaign against the Ku Klux Klan, waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger, culminating in the conviction of over one hundred Klansmen and an end to terrorism in their communities. |
1953 |
Public Service |
Whiteville News Reporter and Tabor City Tribune |
|
|
Providence (RI) Journal and Evening Bulletin |
For their spontaneous and cooperative coverage of a bank robbery and police chase leading to the capture of the bandit. |
1953 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Editorial Staff |
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New York World-Telegram & Sun |
For his reporting of the facts which brought vindication and freedom to Louis Hoffner. |
1953 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
Edward J. Mowery |
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For the section of its Sunday newspaper edited by Lester Markel and headed, "Review of the Week," which for seventeen years has brought enlightenment and intelligent commentary to its readers. |
1953 |
Special Awards and Citations |
The New York Times |
|
Scribner |
The Spirit of St. Louis |
|
1954 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Charles A. Lindbergh |
|
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The Teahouse of the August Moon |
|
1954 |
Drama |
John Patrick |
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The Washington Post & Times-Herald |
For a cartoon depicting the robed figure of Death saying to Stalin after he died, "You Were Always A Great Friend of Mine, Joseph." |
1954 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Herbert L. Block (Herblock) |
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Boston Herald |
For a series of editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy. |
1954 |
Editorial Writing |
Don Murray |
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Doubleday |
A Stillness at Appomattox |
|
1954 |
History |
Bruce Catton |
|
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Scripps-Howard Newspapers |
For his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent. |
1954 |
International Reporting |
Jim G. Lucas |
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Vicksburg (MS) Sunday Post-Herald |
For its outstanding coverage of the tornado of December 5, 1953, under extraordinary difficulties. |
1954 |
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Staff |
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Kansas City (MO) Star |
For a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman. |
1954 |
|
Alvin Scott McCoy |
|
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Concerto For Two Pianos and Orchestra |
First performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, March 17, 1954. This was one of the works commissioned under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation for new American compositions for orchestra, or soloists and orchestra. |
1954 |
Music |
Quincy Porter |
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Des Moines Register & Tribune |
For his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover. |
1954 |
National Reporting |
Richard Wilson |
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For snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, Calif., the picture being published in The Akron (OH) Beacon Journal and other newspapers and nationally distributed by the AP. |
1954 |
Photography |
Mrs. Walter M. Schau |
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Doubleday |
The Waking |
|
1954 |
Poetry |
Theodore Roethke |
|
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Newsday |
For its expose of New York State's race track scandals and labor racketeering, which led to the extortion indictment, guilty plea and imprisonment of William C. DeKoning, Sr., New York labor racketeer. |
1954 |
Public Service |
Newsday |
|
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Vicksburg (MS) Sunday Post-Herald |
For its outstanding coverage of the tornado of December 5, 1953, under extraordinary difficulties. |
1954 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Staff |
|
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Kansas City (MO) Star |
For a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman. |
1954 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
Alvin Scott McCoy |
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Harper |
The Taft Story |
|
1955 |
Biography or Autobiography |
William S. White |
|
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Cat on A Hot Tin Roof |
|
1955 |
Drama |
Tennessee Williams |
|
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For a cartoon published on June 8,1954 entitled, "How Would Another Mistake Help?" showing Uncle Sam, bayoneted rifle in hand, pondering whether to wade into a black marsh bearing the legend "French Mistakes in Indo-China." The award is also given for distinguished body of the work of Mr. Fitzpatrick in both 1954 and his entire career. |
1955 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick |
|
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Detroit Free Press |
For an editorial on "The Cause of a Strike," impartially and clearly analyzing the responsibility of both labor and management for a local union's unauthorized strike in July, 1954, which rendered 45,000 Chrysler Corporation workers idle and unpaid. By pointing out how and why the parent United Automobile Workers' Union ordered the local strike called off and stating that management let dissatisfaction get out of hand, the editorial made a notable contribution to public understanding of the whole program of the respective responsibilities and relationships of labor and management in this field. |
1955 |
Editorial Writing |
Royce Howes |
|
Random |
A Fable |
|
1955 |
Fiction |
William Faulkner |
|
Rinehart |
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History |
|
1955 |
History |
Paul Horgan |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his distinguished series of articles, "Russia Re-Viewed," based on his six years as a Times correspondent in Russia. The perceptive and well-written Salisbury articles made a valuable contribution to American understanding of what is going on inside Russia. This was principally due to the writer's wide range of subject matter and depth of background plus a number of illuminating photographs which he took. |
1955 |
International Reporting |
Harrison E. Salisbury |
|
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Alice (TX) Daily Echo |
For a series of news stories dealing with the successful attack on one-man political rule in neighboring Duval County, written under unusual pressure both of edition time and difficult, even dangerous, circumstances. Mrs. Brown dug into the facts behind the dramatic daily events, as well, and obtained her stories in spite of the bitterest political opposition, showing professional skill and courage. |
1955 |
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Mrs. Caro Brown |
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Cuero (TX) Record |
For his series of articles exclusively exposing a scandal in the administration of the Veterans' Land Program in Texas. This 32-year-old World War II veteran, a former prisoner of the Japanese, made these irregularities a state-wide and subsequently a national issue, and stimulated state action to rectify conditions in the land program. |
1955 |
|
Roland Kenneth Towery |
|
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The Saint of Bleecker Street |
For an opera first performed at the Broadway Theater, New York, December 27, 1954. |
1955 |
Music |
Gian-Carlo Menotti |
|
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Washington Daily News |
For publishing a series of articles which were adjudged directly responsible for clearing Abraham Chasanow, an employee of the U.S. Navy Department, and bringing about his restoration to duty with an acknowledgment by the Navy Department that it had committed a grave injustice in dismissing him as a security risk. Mr. Lewis received the full support of his newspaper in championing an American citizen, without adequate funds or resources for his defense, against an unjust act by a government department. This is in the best tradition of American journalism. |
1955 |
National Reporting |
Anthony Lewis |
|
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Los Angeles Times |
For a photo that is poignant and profoundly moving, entitled, "Tragedy by the Sea," showing a young couple standing together beside an angry sea in which only a few minutes earlier their year-old son had perished. |
1955 |
Photography |
John L. Gaunt |
|
Knopf |
Collected Poems |
|
1955 |
Poetry |
Wallace Stevens |
|
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Columbus (GA) Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer |
For its complete news coverage and fearless editorial attack on widespread corruption in neighboring Phenix City, Ala., which were effective in destroying a corrupt and racket-ridden city government. The newspaper exhibited an early awareness of the evils of lax law enforcement before the situation in Phenix City erupted into murder. It covered the whole unfolding story of the final prosecution of the wrong-doers with skill, perception, force and courage. |
1955 |
Public Service |
Columbus (GA) Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer |
|
|
Alice (TX) Daily Echo |
For a series of news stories dealing with the successful attack on one-man political rule in neighboring Duval County, written under unusual pressure both of edition time and difficult, even dangerous, circumstances. Mrs. Brown dug into the facts behind the dramatic daily events, as well, and obtained her stories in spite of the bitterest political opposition, showing professional skill and courage. |
1955 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Mrs. Caro Brown |
|
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Cuero (TX) Record |
For his series of articles exclusively exposing a scandal in the administration of the Veterans' Land Program in Texas. This 32-year-old World War II veteran, a former prisoner of the Japanese, made these irregularities a state-wide and subsequently a national issue, and stimulated state action to rectify conditions in the land program. |
1955 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
Roland Kenneth Towery |
|
Oxford Univ. Press |
Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
|
1956 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Talbot Faulkner Hamlin |
|
|
Diary of Anne Frank |
|
1956 |
Drama |
Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich |
|
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Louisville (KY) Times |
For his cartoon, "Achilles" showing a bulging figure of American prosperity tapering to a weak heel labeled "Farm Prices." |
1956 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Robert York |
|
|
Register and Tribune |
For the editorial inviting a farm delegation from the Soviet Union to visit Iowa, which led directly to the Russian farm visit to the U.S.. |
1956 |
Editorial Writing |
Lauren K. Soth |
|
World |
Andersonville |
|
1956 |
Fiction |
MacKinlay Kantor |
|
Knopf |
The Age of Reform |
|
1956 |
History |
Richard Hofstadter |
|
|
International News Service |
For a series of exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union. |
1956 |
International Reporting |
William Randolph Hearst Jr., J. Kingsbury-Smith and Frank Connif |
|
|
Detroit Free Press |
For his aggressive, resourceful and comprehensive front page reporting of the United Automobile Workers' negotiations with Ford and General Motors for a guaranteed annual wage. |
1956 |
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Lee Hills |
|
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The New York Times |
For his outstanding coverage and commentary on the world of sports in his daily column, "Sports of the Times." |
1956 |
|
Arthur Daley |
|
|
Symphony No. 3 |
First performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 2, 1955. |
1956 |
Music |
Ernst Toch |
|
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Chattanooga Times |
For his original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force. |
1956 |
National Reporting |
Charles L. Bartlett |
|
|
New York Daily News |
For its consistently excellent news picture coverage in 1955, an outstanding example of which is its photo, "Bomber Crashes in Street." |
1956 |
Photography |
Staff |
|
Houghton |
Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring |
|
1956 |
Poetry |
Elizabeth Bishop |
|
|
Watsonville (CA) Register-Pajaronian |
For courageous exposure of corruption in public office, which led to the resignation of a district attorney and the conviction of one of his associates. |
1956 |
Public Service |
Watsonville (CA) Register-Pajaronian |
|
|
Detroit Free Press |
For his aggressive, resourceful and comprehensive front page reporting of the United Automobile Workers' negotiations with Ford and General Motors for a guaranteed annual wage. |
1956 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Lee Hills |
|
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The New York Times |
For his outstanding coverage and commentary on the world of sports in his daily column, "Sports of the Times." |
1956 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
Arthur Daley |
|
|
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For his historical novels which have long contributed to the creation of greater interest in our early American history. |
1957 |
|
Kenneth Roberts |
|
Harper |
Profiles in Courage |
|
1957 |
Biography or Autobiography |
John F. Kennedy |
|
|
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
|
1957 |
Drama |
Eugene O'Neill |
|
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The Nashville Tennessean |
For "Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?" Published on January 12, 1956. |
1957 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Tom Little |
|
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Tuscaloosa (AL) News |
For his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on February 7,1956. |
1957 |
Editorial Writing |
Buford Boone |
|
Princeton Univ. Press |
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O |
|
1957 |
History |
George F. Kennan |
|
|
United Press |
For his excellent and sustained coverage of the Hungarian revolt against Communist domination, during which he worked at great personal risk within Russian-held Budapest and gave front-line eyewitness reports of the ruthless Soviet repression of the Hungarian people. |
1957 |
International Reporting |
Russell Jones |
|
|
Salt Lake (UT) Tribune |
For its prompt and efficient coverage of the crash of two air liners over the Grand Canyon, in which 128 persons were killed. This was a team job that surmounted great difficulties in distance, time and terrain. |
1957 |
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Staff |
|
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Meditations on Ecclesiastes |
First performed at the Juilliard School of Music on April 20, 1956. |
1957 |
Music |
Norman Dello Joio |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. |
1957 |
National Reporting |
James Reston |
|
|
Boston Traveler |
For his dramatic and outstanding photographic sequence of the sinking of the liner Andrea Doria, the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet only nine minutes before the ship plunged to the bottom. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.) |
1957 |
Photography |
Harry A. Trask |
|
Harcourt |
Things of This World |
|
1957 |
Poetry |
Richard Wilbur |
|
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Chicago Daily News |
For determined and courageous public service in exposing a $2,500,000 fraud centering in the office of the State Auditor of Illinois, resulting in the indictment and conviction of the State Auditor and others. This led to the reorganization of State procedures to prevent a recurrence of the fraud. |
1957 |
Public Service |
Chicago Daily News |
|
|
Salt Lake (UT) Tribune |
For its prompt and efficient coverage of the crash of two air liners over the Grand Canyon, in which 128 persons were killed. This was a team job that surmounted great difficulties in distance, time and terrain. |
1957 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Staff |
|
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Portland Oregonian |
For their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements. |
1957 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
Wallace Turner and William Lamber |
|
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For his historical novels which have long contributed to the creation of greater interest in our early American history. |
1957 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Kenneth Roberts |
|
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The New York Herald Tribune |
For the wisdom, perception and high sense of responsibility with which he has commented for many years on national and international affairs. |
1958 |
|
Walter Lippmann |
|
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George Washington, Volumes I-VI |
|
1958 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Douglas Southall Freeman |
|
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Look Homeward, Angel |
|
1958 |
Drama |
Ketti Frings |
|
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Buffalo (NY) Evening News |
For "The Thinker," published on August 10, 1957, depicting the dilemma of union membership when confronted by racketeering leaders in some labor unions. |
1958 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Bruce M. Shanks |
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Arkansas Gazette |
For the forcefulness, dispassionate analysis and clarity of his editorials on the school integration conflict in Little Rock. |
1958 |
Editorial Writing |
Harry S. Ashmore |
|
McDowell, Obolensky |
A Death In The Family |
|
1958 |
Fiction |
James Agee |
|
Princeton Univ. Press |
Banks and Politics in America |
|
1958 |
History |
Bray Hammond |
|
|
The New York Times |
For its distinguished coverage of foreign news, which was characterized by admirable initiative, continuity and high quality during the year. |
1958 |
International Reporting |
Staff |
|
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Fargo (ND) Forum |
For its swift, vivid and detailed news and picture coverage of a tornado which struck Fargo on June 20. Proceeding under considerable difficulty and overcoming many handicaps, a small but skilled staff put out a complete tornado edition within five hours after the disaster. |
1958 |
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Staff |
|
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The Evening Star |
For his excellent and thought-provoking series, "Metro, City of Tomorrow," describing in depth the urban problems of Washington, D.C., which stimulated widespread public consideration of these problems and encouraged further studies by both public and private agencies. |
1958 |
|
George Beveridge |
|
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Vanessa |
An opera in four acts, libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. First presented January 15,1958, at the Metropolitan Opera House. |
1958 |
Music |
Samuel Barber |
|
|
Des Moines Register and Tribune |
For his persistent inquiry into labor racketeering, which included investigatory reporting of wide significance. |
1958 |
National Reporting |
Clark Mollenhoff |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his dramatic and incisive eyewitness report of mob violence on September 23, 1957, during the integration crisis at the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
1958 |
National Reporting |
Relman Morin |
|
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Washington (DC) Daily News |
For his photograph "Faith and Confidence," showing a policeman patiently reasoning with two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade. |
1958 |
Photography |
William C. Beall |
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Random |
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 |
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1958 |
Poetry |
Robert Penn Warren |
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Arkansas Gazette |
For demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage in the face of great public tension during the school integration crisis of 1957. The newspaper's fearless and completely objective news coverage, plus its reasoned and moderate policy, did much to restore calmness and order to an overwrought community, reflecting great credit on its editors and its management. |
1958 |
Public Service |
Arkansas Gazette |
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Fargo (ND) Forum |
For its swift, vivid and detailed news and picture coverage of a tornado which struck Fargo on June 20. Proceeding under considerable difficulty and overcoming many handicaps, a small but skilled staff put out a complete tornado edition within five hours after the disaster. |
1958 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Staff |
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The Evening Star |
For his excellent and thought-provoking series, "Metro, City of Tomorrow," describing in depth the urban problems of Washington, D.C., which stimulated widespread public consideration of these problems and encouraged further studies by both public and private agencies. |
1958 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
George Beveridge |
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New York Herald Tribune |
For the wisdom, perception and high sense of responsibility with which he has commented for many years on national and international affairs. |
1958 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Walter Lippmann |
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Longmans |
Woodrow Wilson |
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1959 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Arthur Walworth |
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J. B. |
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1959 |
Drama |
Archibald Macleish |
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime?" Published on October 30, 1958. |
1959 |
Editorial Cartooning |
William H. (Bill) Mauldin |
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The Atlanta (GA) Constitution |
For his distinguished editorial writing during 1958 as exemplified in his editorial "A Church, A School...." and for his long, courageous and effective editorial leadership. |
1959 |
Editorial Writing |
Ralph McGill |
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Doubleday |
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters |
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1959 |
Fiction |
Robert Lewis Taylor |
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The Republican Era: l869-1901 |
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1959 |
History |
Leonard D. White |
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New York Daily News |
For their exclusive series of articles disclosing the brutality of the Batista government in Cuba long before its downfall and forecasting the triumph of the revolutionary party led by Fidel Castro. |
1959 |
International Reporting |
Joseph Martin and Philip Santora |
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The Evening Star |
For her comprehensive year-long coverage of the integration crisis in Virginia which demonstrated admirable qualities of accuracy, speed and the ability to interpret the news under deadline pressure in the course of a difficult and taxing assignment. |
1959 |
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Miss Mary Lou Werner |
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Scranton (PA) Tribune and Scrantonian |
For displaying courage, initiative and resourcefulness in his effective four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his home city, as a result of which ten corrupt union officials were sent to jail and a local union was embolden to clean out racketeering elements. |
1959 |
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John Harold Brislin |
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
First performed in Washington, D.C. by the National Symphony Orchestra on November 25, 1958. |
1959 |
Music |
John LaMontaine |
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The Miami (FL) News |
For a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers. |
1959 |
National Reporting |
Howard Van Smith |
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Minneapolis Star |
For his dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street. |
1959 |
Photography |
William Seaman |
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Little |
Selected Poems 1928-1958 |
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1959 |
Poetry |
Stanley Kunitz |
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Utica (NY) Observer-Dispatch and Utica Daily Press |
For their successful campaign against corruption, gambling and vice in their home city and the achievement of sweeping civic reforms in the face of political pressure and threats of violence. By their stalwart leadership of the forces of good government, these newspapers upheld the best tradition of a free press. |
1959 |
Public Service |
Utica (NY) Observer-Dispatch and Utica Daily Press |
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The Evening Star |
For her comprehensive year-long coverage of the integration crisis in Virginia which demonstrated admirable qualities of accuracy, speed and the ability to interpret the news under deadline pressure in the course of a difficult and taxing assignment. |
1959 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Miss Mary Lou Werner |
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Scranton (PA) Tribune and Scrantonian |
For displaying courage, initiative and resourcefulness in his effective four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his home city, as a result of which ten corrupt union officials were sent to jail and a local union was embolden to clean out racketeering elements. |
1959 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
John Harold Brislin |
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It is a first class history and a literary work of high order. |
1960 |
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Garrett Mattingly |
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Little |
John Paul Jones |
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1960 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Samuel Eliot Morison |
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Fiorello! |
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1960 |
Drama |
Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick |
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Norfolk Virginian-Pilot |
For his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by "The Year the Schools Closed," published January 1, 1959, and "The Year the Schools Opened," published December 31, 1959. |
1960 |
Editorial Writing |
Lenoir Chambers |
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Doubleday |
Advise and Consent |
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1960 |
Fiction |
Allen Drury |
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Harper |
In the Days of McKinley |
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1960 |
History |
Margaret Leech |
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The New York Times |
For his perceptive and authoritative reporting from Poland. Mr. Rosenthal's subsequent expulsion from the country was attributed by Polish government spokesmen to the depth his reporting into Polish affairs, there being no accusation of false reporting. |
1960 |
International Reporting |
A. M. Rosenthal |
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The Atlanta (GA) Constitution |
For the excellent reporting in his series of articles on mental institutions in Georgia. |
1960 |
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Jack Nelson |
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The Evening Star |
For a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers. The series led to new regulations to protect the public and served to alert other communities to such sharp practices. |
1960 |
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Miriam Ottenberg |
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Second String Quartet |
First performed at the Juilliard School of Music, March 25, 1960. |
1960 |
Music |
Elliott Carter |
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Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance |
For a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the Congress of the United States. |
1960 |
National Reporting |
Vance Trimble |
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United Press International |
For his series of four photographs of a corporal, formerly of Dictator Batista's army, who was executed by a Castro firing squad, the principal picture showing the condemned man receiving last rites. |
1960 |
Photography |
Andrew Lopez |
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Knopf |
Heart's Needle |
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1960 |
Poetry |
W. D. Snodgrass |
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Los Angeles Times |
For its thorough, sustained and well-conceived attack on narcotics traffic and the enterprising reporting of Gene Sherman, which led to the opening of negotiations between the United States and Mexico to halt the flow of illegal drugs into southern California and other border states. |
1960 |
Public Service |
Los Angeles Times |
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The Atlanta (GA) Constitution |
For the excellent reporting in his series of articles on mental institutions in Georgia. |
1960 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Jack Nelson |
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The Evening Star |
For a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers. The series led to new regulations to protect the public and served to alert other communities to such sharp practices. |
1960 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
Miriam Ottenberg |
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A first class history and a literary work of high order. |
1960 |
Special Awards and Citations |
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly |
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American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War |
A distinguished example of American book publishing. |
1961 |
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No author named |
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Knopf |
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War |
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1961 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David Donald |
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All The Way Home |
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1961 |
Drama |
Tad Mosel |
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Chicago Tribune |
For "The Kindly Tiger," published on October 8, 1960. |
1961 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Carey Orr |
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San Juan (Puerto Rico) Star |
For his editorials on clerical interference in the 1960 gubernatorial election in Puerto Rico. |
1961 |
Editorial Writing |
William J. Dorvillier |
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Lippincott |
To Kill A Mockingbird |
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1961 |
Fiction |
Harper Lee |
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Princeton Univ. Press |
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference |
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1961 |
History |
Herbert Feis |
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Associated Press |
For his reporting under extraordinarily difficult conditions of the early stages of the Congo crisis and his keen analysis of events in other parts of Africa. |
1961 |
International Reporting |
Lynn Heinzerling |
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New York Herald Tribune |
For his moving account of the death of Leonard Warren on the Metropolitan Opera stage. |
1961 |
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Sanche De Gramont |
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Buffalo (NY) Evening News |
For his series of articles on New York State's public welfare services entitled, "Our Costly Dilemma," based in part on his three-month employment as a State case worker. The series brought about reforms that attracted nation-wide attention. |
1961 |
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Edgar May |
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Symphony No. 7 |
First performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. |
1961 |
Music |
Walter Piston |
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to the problems of business ethics. |
1961 |
National Reporting |
Edward R. Cony |
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Mainichi |
For his photograph, "Tokyo Stabbing," distributed by United Press International and widely printed in American newspapers. |
1961 |
Photography |
Yasushi Nagao |
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Viking |
Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades |
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1961 |
Poetry |
Phyllis McGinley |
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Amarillo (TX) Globe-Times |
For exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate. The newspaper thus exerted its civic leadership in the finest tradition of journalism. |
1961 |
Public Service |
Amarillo (TX) Globe-Times |
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New York Herald Tribune |
For his moving account of the death of Leonard Warren on the Metropolitan Opera stage. |
1961 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Sanche De Gramont |
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Buffalo (NY) Evening News |
For his series of articles on New York State's public welfare services entitled, "Our Costly Dilemma," based in part on his three-month employment as a State case worker. The series brought about reforms that attracted nation-wide attention. |
1961 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
Edgar May |
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A distinguished example of American book publishing. |
1961 |
Special Awards and Citations |
American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War |
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How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying |
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1962 |
Drama |
Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows |
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The Hartford Times |
For "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine," published on August 31, 1961. |
1962 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Edmund S. Valtman |
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Santa Barbara (CA) News-Press |
For his forceful editorials calling public attention to the activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch Society. |
1962 |
Editorial Writing |
Thomas M. Storke |
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Little |
The Edge of Sadness |
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1962 |
Fiction |
Edwin O'Connor |
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Atheneum |
The Making of the President 1960 |
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1962 |
General Nonfiction |
Theodore H. White |
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Knopf |
The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 |
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1962 |
History |
Lawrence H. Gipson |
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New York Herald Tribune Syndicate |
For his 1961 interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, as illustrative of Lippmann's long and distinguished contribution to American journalism. |
1962 |
International Reporting |
Walter Lippmann |
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Deseret News |
For his resourceful coverage of a murder and kidnapping at Dead Horse Point, Utah. |
1962 |
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Robert D. Mulllins |
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Chicago Tribune |
For his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action. |
1962 |
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George Bliss |
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The Crucible |
For an opera in three acts, libretto by Bernard Stambler, based on the play by Arthur Miller. First performed at New York City Center, on October 26, 1961 by the New York City Opera Company. |
1962 |
Music |
Robert Ward |
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Nashville Tennessean |
For their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers. |
1962 |
National Reporting |
Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham |
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Associated Press |
For the photograph, "Serious Steps," published April 22, 1961. |
1962 |
Photography |
Paul Vathis |
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Yale Univ. Press |
Poems |
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1962 |
Poetry |
Alan Dugan |
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Panama City (FL) News-Herald |
For its three-year campaign against entrenched power and corruption, with resultant reforms in Panama City and Bay County. |
1962 |
Public Service |
Panama City (FL) News-Herald |
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Deseret News |
For his resourceful coverage of a murder and kidnapping at Dead Horse Point, Utah. |
1962 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Robert D. Mulllins |
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Chicago Tribune |
For his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action. |
1962 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
George Bliss |
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Lippincott |
Henry James |
|
1963 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Leon Edel |
|
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Des Moines Register |
For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!" |
1963 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Frank Miller |
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Pascagoula (MS) Chronicle |
For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962. |
1963 |
Editorial Writing |
Ira B. Harkey |
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Random |
The Reivers |
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1963 |
Fiction |
William Faulkner |
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Macmillan |
The Guns of August |
|
1963 |
General Nonfiction |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Princeton Univ. Press |
Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 |
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1963 |
History |
Constance McLaughlin Green |
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The Miami (FL) News |
For his persistent reporting which revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing missile launching pads in Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft. |
1963 |
International Reporting |
Hal Hendrix |
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New York World-Telegram and Sun |
For their reporting of an air crash in Jamaica Bay, killing 95 persons on March 1, 1962. |
1963 |
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Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood |
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Pecos (TX) Independent and Enterprise |
Who as editor initiated the exposure of the Billie Sol Estes scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes. |
1963 |
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Oscar Griffin, Jr. |
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Piano Concerto No. 1 |
Premiered with the Boston Symphony at Philharmonic Hall on September 24, 1962. |
1963 |
Music |
Samuel Barber |
|
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The New York Times |
For his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union. |
1963 |
National Reporting |
Anthony Lewis |
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La Republica |
For his remarkable picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 Venezuelan insurrection: "Aid From The Padre." The photograph was distributed by the Associated Press. |
1963 |
Photography |
Hector Rondon |
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New Directions |
Pictures from Brueghel |
|
1963 |
Poetry |
William Carlos Williams |
|
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Chicago Daily News |
For calling public attention to the issue of providing birth control services in the public health programs in its area. |
1963 |
Public Service |
Chicago Daily News |
|
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New York World-Telegram and Sun |
For their reporting of an air crash in Jamaica Bay, killing 95 persons on March 1, 1962. |
1963 |
Local Reporting - Edition time |
Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood |
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Pecos (TX) Independent and Enterprise |
Who as editor initiated the exposure of the Billie Sol Estes scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes. |
1963 |
Local Reporting - No edition time |
Oscar Griffin, Jr. |
|
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Gannett Newspapers |
A special citation for their program, "The Road To Integration," a distinguished example of the use of a newspaper group's resources to complement the work of its individual newspapers. |
1964 |
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No author named |
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Harvard Univ. Press |
John Keats |
|
1964 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Walter Jackson Bate |
|
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The Denver Post |
For his editorial cartooning during the past year |
1964 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Paul Conrad |
|
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Lexington (MS) Advertiser |
For steadfast adherence to her editorial duty in the face of great pressure and opposition. |
1964 |
Editorial Writing |
Hazel Brannon Smith |
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Random |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life |
|
1964 |
General Nonfiction |
Richard Hofstadter |
|
Wesleyan Univ. Press |
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town |
|
1964 |
History |
Sumner Chilton Powell |
|
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Associated Press and The New York Times |
For their individual reporting of the Viet Nam war and the overthrow of the Diem regime. |
1964 |
International Reporting |
Malcolm W. Browne and David Halberstam |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his comprehensive account of a multi-million dollar vegetable oil swindle in New Jersey. |
1964 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Norman C. Miller |
|
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The Philadelphia Bulletin |
For their expose of numbers racket operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department. |
1964 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi and Frederick Meyer |
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United Press International |
For his outstanding coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. |
1964 |
National Reporting |
Merriman Smith |
|
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Dallas Times-Herald |
For his photograph of the murder of Lee Oswald by Jack Ruby. |
1964 |
Photography |
Robert H. Jackson |
|
Wesleyan Univ. Press |
At The End Of The Open Road |
|
1964 |
Poetry |
Louis Simpson |
|
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St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
For its aggressive investigation of the Florida Turnpike Authority which disclosed widespread illegal acts and resulted in a major reorganization of the State's road construction program. |
1964 |
Public Service |
St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
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A special citation for their program, "The Road To Integration," a distinguished example of the use of a newspaper group's resources to complement the work of its individual newspapers. |
1964 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Gannett Newspapers |
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Harvard Univ. Press |
Henry Adams, three volumes |
|
1965 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Ernest Samuels |
|
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The Subject Was Roses |
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1965 |
Drama |
Frank D. Gilroy |
|
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Gainesville (FL) Sun |
For his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city. |
1965 |
Editorial Writing |
John R. Harrison |
|
Random |
The Keepers Of The House |
|
1965 |
Fiction |
Shirley Ann Grau |
|
Viking |
O Strange New World |
|
1965 |
General Nonfiction |
Howard Mumford Jones |
|
Princeton Univ. Press |
The Greenback Era |
|
1965 |
History |
Irwin Unger |
|
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Philadelphia Bulletin |
For his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West. |
1965 |
International Reporting |
J. A. Livingston |
|
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Hungry Horse News |
For his daring and resourceful coverage of a disastrous flood that threatened his community, an individual effort in the finest tradition of spot news reporting. |
1965 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Melvin H. Ruder |
|
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Houston Post |
For his expose of government corruption Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms. |
1965 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Gene Goltz |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family. |
1965 |
National Reporting |
Louis M. Kohlmeier |
|
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Associated Press |
For his combat photography of the war in South Viet Nam during 1964. |
1965 |
Photography |
Horst Faas |
|
Farrar |
77 Dream Songs |
|
1965 |
Poetry |
John Berryman |
|
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Hutchinson (KS) News |
For its courageous and constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more equitable reapportionment of the Kansas Legislature, despite powerful opposition in its own community. |
1965 |
Public Service |
Hutchinson (KS) News |
|
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A Thousand Days |
|
1966 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Arthur M. Schlesinger |
|
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The Miami News |
For "You Mean You Were Bluffing?" |
1966 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Don Wright |
|
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For his distinguished editorial writing in 1965. |
1966 |
Editorial Writing |
Robert Lasch |
|
Harcourt |
Collected Stories |
|
1966 |
Fiction |
Katherine Anne Porter |
|
Dodd |
Wandering Through Winter |
|
1966 |
General Nonfiction |
Edwin Way Teale |
|
Harcourt |
The Life of the Mind in America |
|
1966 |
History |
Perry Miller |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his coverage of the war in Vietnam. |
1966 |
International Reporting |
Peter Arnett |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For its coverage of the Watts riots. |
1966 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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Tampa (FL) Tribune |
For his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man. |
1966 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
John Anthony Frasca |
|
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Variations for Orchestra |
First performed in the United States by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on October 22, 1965. |
1966 |
Music |
Leslie Bassett |
|
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Washington Evening Star |
For his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Ala., and particularly his reporting of its aftermath. |
1966 |
National Reporting |
Haynes Johnson |
|
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United Press International |
For his combat photography of the war in Vietnam during 1965. |
1966 |
Photography |
Kyoichi Sawada |
|
New Directions |
Selected Poems |
|
1966 |
Poetry |
Richard Eberhart |
|
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The Boston Globe |
For its campaign to prevent confirmation of Francis X Morrissey as a Federal District Judge in Massachusetts. |
1966 |
Public Service |
The Boston Globe |
|
Simon & Schuster |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
|
1967 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Justin Kaplan |
|
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A Delicate Balance |
|
1967 |
Drama |
Edward Albee |
|
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The Denver Post |
For "They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table...Will They?" Published February 1, 1966. |
1967 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Patrick B. Oliphant |
|
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The Atlanta Constitution |
For his editorials during the year. |
1967 |
Editorial Writing |
Eugene Patterson |
|
Farrar |
The Fixer |
|
1967 |
Fiction |
Bernard Malamud |
|
Cornell Univ. Press |
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture |
|
1967 |
General Nonfiction |
David Brion Davis |
|
Knopf |
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West |
|
1967 |
History |
William H. Goetzmann |
|
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The Christian Science Monitor |
For his thorough reporting of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66. |
1967 |
International Reporting |
R. John Hughes |
|
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Chambersburg (Pennsylvania) Public Opinion |
For his vivid deadline reporting of a mountain manhunt that ended with the killing of a deranged sniper who had terrorized the community. |
1967 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Robert V. Cox |
|
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Miami Herald |
Whose initiative and investigative reporting helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder. |
1967 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Gene Miller |
|
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Quartet No. 3 |
First performed by the Beaux Arts Quartet in Town Hall, January 27, 1967. |
1967 |
Music |
Leon Kirchner |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas. |
1967 |
National Reporting |
Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his picture of the shooting of James Meredith in Mississippi by a roadside rifleman. |
1967 |
Photography |
Jack R. Thornell |
|
Houghton |
Live or Die |
|
1967 |
Poetry |
Anne Sexton |
|
|
Milwaukee Journal |
For its successful campaign to stiffen the law against water pollution in Wisconsin, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources. |
1967 |
Public Service |
Milwaukee Journal |
|
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Louisville Courier-Journal |
For its successful campaign to control the Kentucky strip mining industry, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources. |
1967 |
Public Service |
Staff |
|
Little |
Memoirs |
|
1968 |
Biography or Autobiography |
George F. Kennan |
|
|
The Charlotte Observer |
For his editorial cartooning in 1967. |
1968 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Eugene Gray Payne |
|
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Knight Newspapers |
For his distinguished editorial writing. |
1968 |
Editorial Writing |
John S. Knight |
|
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United Press International |
For his Vietnam War combat photograph, "Dreams of Better Times." |
1968 |
Feature Photography |
Toshio Sakai |
|
Random |
The Confessions of Nat Turner |
|
1968 |
Fiction |
William Styron |
|
Simon & Schuster |
Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization |
|
1968 |
General Nonfiction |
Will and Ariel Durant |
|
Harvard Univ. Press |
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
|
1968 |
History |
Bernard Bailyn |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his coverage of the Middle East War of 1967. |
1968 |
International Reporting |
Alfred Friendly |
|
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Detroit Free Press |
For its coverage of the Detroit riots of 1967, recognizing both the brilliance of its detailed spot news staff work and its swift and accurate investigation into the underlying causes of the tragedy. |
1968 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
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The New York Times |
For the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick. |
1968 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
J. Anthony Lukas |
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|
Echoes of Time and the River |
An orchestral suite first performed on May 26, 1967 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Mandel Hall, University of Chicago, having been commissioned by the University in connection with the celebration of its 75th anniversary. |
1968 |
Music |
George Crumb |
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Des Moines Register and Minneapolis Tribune |
For his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967. |
1968 |
National Reporting |
Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz |
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The Christian Science Monitor |
For his series of articles, "Crisis in the Courts." |
1968 |
National Reporting |
Howard James |
|
Atheneum |
The Hard Hours |
|
1968 |
Poetry |
Anthony Hecht |
|
|
Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise |
For its expose of corruption in the courts in connection with the handling of the property and estates of an Indian tribe in California, and its successful efforts to punish the culprits. |
1968 |
Public Service |
Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise |
|
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Jacksonville Journal |
For his photograph, "The Kiss of Life." |
1968 |
Spot News Photography |
Rocco Morabito |
|
Oxford Univ. Press |
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends |
|
1969 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Benjamin Lawrence Reid |
|
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The Great White Hope |
|
1969 |
Drama |
Howard Sackler |
|
|
Chicago Daily News |
For his editorial cartooning in 1968. |
1969 |
Editorial Cartooning |
John Fischetti |
|
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Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial |
For his editorials during 1968. |
1969 |
Editorial Writing |
Paul Greenberg |
|
|
Ebony Magazine |
For his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow and child, taken at Dr. King's funeral. |
1969 |
Feature Photography |
Moneta Sleet Jr. |
|
Harper |
House Made of Dawn |
|
1969 |
Fiction |
N. Scott Momaday |
|
World |
The Armies Of The Night |
|
1969 |
General Nonfiction |
Norman Mailer |
|
Scribner |
So Human An Animal |
|
1969 |
General Nonfiction |
Rene Jules Dubos |
|
Oxford Univ. Press |
Origins of the Fifth Amendment |
|
1969 |
History |
Leonard W. Levy |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his Vietnam War correspondence in 1968. |
1969 |
International Reporting |
William Tuohy |
|
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Louisville Times and Courier-Journal |
For his article, "Pfc. Gibson Comes Home," the story of an American soldier whose body was returned to his native town from Vietnam for burial. |
1969 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
John Fetterman |
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
For their campaign against fraud and abuse of power within the St. Louis Steamfitters Union, Local 562. |
1969 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Albert L. Delugach and Denny Walsh |
|
|
String Quartet No. 3 |
First performed at the Goodman Theater, Chicago, on October 14, 1968 by the Fine Arts Quartet. |
1969 |
Music |
Karel Husa |
|
|
The Christian Science Monitor |
For his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them. |
1969 |
National Reporting |
Robert Cahn |
|
New Directions |
Of Being Numerous |
|
1969 |
Poetry |
George Oppen |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For its expose of wrongdoing within the Los Angeles City Government Commissions, resulting in resignations or criminal convictions of certain members, as well as widespread reforms. |
1969 |
Public Service |
Los Angeles Times |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his photograph, "Saigon Execution." |
1969 |
Spot News Photography |
Edward T. Adams |
|
Knopf |
Huey Long |
|
1970 |
Biography or Autobiography |
T. Harry Williams |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For distinguished commentary during 1969. |
1970 |
Commentary |
Marquis W. Childs |
|
|
The New York Times |
For distinguished criticism during 1969. |
1970 |
Criticism |
Ada Louise Huxtable |
|
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No Place To Be Somebody |
|
1970 |
Drama |
Charles Gordone |
|
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Newsday |
For his editorial cartooning during 1969. |
1970 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Thomas F. Darcy |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his editorials during 1969. |
1970 |
Editorial Writing |
Philip L. Geyelin |
|
|
Palm Beach Post |
For his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, "Migration to Misery." |
1970 |
Feature Photography |
Dallas Kinney |
|
Farrar |
Collected Stories |
|
1970 |
Fiction |
Jean Stafford |
|
Norton |
Gandhi's Truth |
|
1970 |
General Nonfiction |
Erik H. Erikson |
|
Norton |
Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department |
|
1970 |
History |
Dean Acheson |
|
|
Dispatch News Service |
For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai. |
1970 |
International Reporting |
Seymour M. Hersh |
|
|
Chicago Sun-Times |
For his article about the violence of youthful radicals in Chicago, "A Wild Night's Ride With SDS." |
1970 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Thomas Fitzpatrick |
|
|
Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal |
For his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and obtaining blood plasma from them. |
1970 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Harold Eugene Martin |
|
|
Time's Encomium |
Premiered in its entirety at the Berkshire Music Festival on August 16, 1969. |
1970 |
Music |
Charles Wuorinen |
|
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Chicago Daily News |
For disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F. Haynesworth Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States Supreme Court. |
1970 |
National Reporting |
William J. Eaton |
|
Atheneum |
Untitled Subjects |
|
1970 |
Poetry |
Richard Howard |
|
|
Newsday |
For its three-year investigation and exposure of secret land deals in eastern Long Island, which led to a series of criminal convictions, discharges and resignations among public and political officeholders in the area. |
1970 |
Public Service |
Newsday |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his news photo taken at Cornell University, "Campus Guns." |
1970 |
Spot News Photography |
Steve Starr |
|
Holt |
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 |
|
1971 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Lawrance Thompson |
|
|
The Record |
For his commentary in his daily column. |
1971 |
Commentary |
William A. Caldwell |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his music criticism during 1970. |
1971 |
Criticism |
Harold C. Schonberg |
|
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds |
|
1971 |
Drama |
Paul Zindel |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his editorial cartooning during 1970. |
1971 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Paul Conrad |
|
|
The Gainesville (FL) Sun |
For his editorials in support of the peaceful desegregation of Florida's schools. |
1971 |
Editorial Writing |
Horance G. Davis Jr. |
|
|
Chicago Sun-Times |
For his dramatic and sensitive photographs at the Lincoln and Dixon State Schools for the Retarded in Illinois. |
1971 |
Feature Photography |
Jack Dykinga |
|
Random |
The Rising Sun |
|
1971 |
General Nonfiction |
John Toland |
|
Harcourt |
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom |
|
1971 |
History |
James MacGregor Burns |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his coverage of the struggle against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa. |
1971 |
International Reporting |
Jimmie Lee Hoagland |
|
|
Akron (OH) Beacon Journal |
For its coverage of the Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970. |
1971 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For exposing collusion between police and some of Chicago's largest private ambulance companies to restrict service in low income areas, leading to major reforms. |
1971 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
William Jones |
|
|
Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sound (1970) |
Premiered August 19, 1970 at the Berkshire Music Festival. |
1971 |
Music |
Mario Davidovsky |
|
|
United Press International |
For their documentary on the life and death of a 28-year-old revolutionary Diana Oughton: "The Making of a Terrorist." |
1971 |
National Reporting |
Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers |
|
Atheneum |
The Carrier of Ladders |
|
1971 |
Poetry |
William S. Merwin |
|
|
Winston-Salem (NC) Journal and Sentinel |
For coverage of environmental problems, as exemplified by a successful campaign to block strip mining operation that would have caused irreparable damage to the hill country of northwest North Carolina. |
1971 |
Public Service |
Winston-Salem (NC) Journal and Sentinel |
|
|
Valley Daily News and Daily Dispatch |
For his pictorial coverage of the Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970. |
1971 |
Spot News Photography |
John Paul Filo |
|
Norton |
Eleanor and Franklin |
|
1972 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Joseph P. Lash |
|
|
Chicago Daily News |
For his columns during 1971. |
1972 |
Commentary |
Mike Royko |
|
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For his music criticism during 1971. |
1972 |
Criticism |
Frank Peters Jr. |
|
|
Richmond News-Leader |
For his editorial cartooning during 1971. |
1972 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jeffrey K. MacNelly |
|
|
Bethlehem (PA) Globe-Times |
For his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem. |
1972 |
Editorial Writing |
John Strohmeyer |
|
|
United Press International |
For his dramatic photographs of the Vietnam War in 1971. |
1972 |
Feature Photography |
Dave Kennerly |
|
Doubleday |
Angle of Repose |
|
1972 |
Fiction |
Wallace Stegner |
|
Macmillan |
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 |
|
1972 |
General Nonfiction |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
|
Macmillan |
Neither Black Nor White |
|
1972 |
History |
Carl N. Degler |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For his coverage of the Indo Pakistan War of 1971. |
1972 |
International Reporting |
Peter R. Kann |
|
|
Rochester (NY) Times-Union |
For their coverage of the Attica, New York prison riot. |
1972 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Richard Cooper and John Machacek |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For their exposure of widespread corruption in Somerville, Massachusetts. |
1972 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian and Ann Desantis |
|
|
Windows |
Premiered by the Chicago Symphony on March 16, 1972 at Orchestra Hall, Chicago. |
1972 |
Music |
Jacob Druckman |
|
|
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For his reporting of American policy decision-making during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. |
1972 |
National Reporting |
Jack Anderson |
|
Wesleyan Univ. Press |
Collected Poems |
|
1972 |
Poetry |
James Wright |
|
|
The New York Times |
For the publication of the Pentagon Papers. |
1972 |
Public Service |
The New York Times |
|
|
Associated Press |
For their picture series, "Death in Dacca." |
1972 |
Spot News Photography |
Horst Faas and Michel Laurent |
|
|
|
A special citation. |
1973 |
|
James Thomas Flexner |
|
Scribner |
Luce and His Empire |
|
1973 |
Biography or Autobiography |
W. A. Swanberg |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his columns during 1972. |
1973 |
Commentary |
David S. Broder |
|
|
Chicago Sun-Times |
For his critical writing about television during 1972. |
1973 |
Criticism |
Ronald Powers |
|
|
That Championship Season |
|
1973 |
Drama |
Jason Miller |
|
|
Berkshire Eagle |
For his editorials during 1972. |
1973 |
Editorial Writing |
Roger B. Linscott |
|
|
Topeka Capital-Journal |
For his sequence on child birth, as exemplified by his photograph, "Moment of Life." |
1973 |
Feature Photography |
Brian Lanker |
|
Random |
The Optimist's Daughter |
|
1973 |
Fiction |
Eudora Welty |
|
Little |
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam |
|
1973 |
General Nonfiction |
Frances Fitzgerald |
|
Little |
Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III |
|
1973 |
General Nonfiction |
Robert Coles |
|
Knopf |
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization |
|
1973 |
History |
Michael Kammen |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his coverage of President Nixon's visit to China in 1972. |
1973 |
International Reporting |
Max Frankel |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For uncovering flagrant violations of voting procedures in the primary election of March 21, 1972. |
1973 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The Sun Newspapers of Omaha |
For uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, Nebraska, leading to reforms in this charitable organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public. |
1973 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
String Quartet No. 3 |
Premiered by the Juilliard String Quartet at Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, on January 23, 1973. |
1973 |
Music |
Elliott Carter |
|
|
Knight Newspapers |
For their disclosure of Senator Thomas Eagleton's history of psychiatric therapy, resulting in his withdrawal as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1972. |
1973 |
National Reporting |
Robert Boyd and Clark Hoyt |
|
Harper |
Up Country |
|
1973 |
Poetry |
Maxine Kumin |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For its investigation of the Watergate case. |
1973 |
Public Service |
The Washington Post |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his photograph, "The Terror of War," depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing. |
1973 |
Spot News Photography |
Huynh Cong Ut |
|
|
|
For George Washington, Vols. I-IV. |
1973 |
Special Awards and Citations |
James Thomas Flexner |
|
|
|
For his life's work as a distinguished American composer. |
1974 |
|
Roger Sessions |
|
Little |
O'Neill, Son and Artist |
|
1974 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Louis Sheaffer |
|
|
National Observer |
For his commentary on public affairs during 1973. |
1974 |
Commentary |
Edwin A. Roberts Jr. |
|
|
Newsday Syndicate |
For her critical writing about art and artists. |
1974 |
Criticism |
Emily Genauer |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For his editorial cartooning during 1973. |
1974 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Paul Szep |
|
|
The Trentonian |
For his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government. |
1974 |
Editorial Writing |
F. Gilman Spencer |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his picture of the return of an American prisoner of war from captivity in North Vietnam. |
1974 |
Feature Photography |
Slava Veder |
|
Free Press/Macmillan |
The Denial of Death |
|
1974 |
General Nonfiction |
Ernest Becker |
|
Random |
The Americans: The Democratic Experience |
|
1974 |
History |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his coverage of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1973. |
1974 |
International Reporting |
Hedrick Smith |
|
|
Chicago Sun-Times |
For uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder of Valerie Percy. |
1974 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Arthur M. Petacque and Hugh F. Hough |
|
|
New York Daily News |
For his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program. |
1974 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
William Sherman |
|
|
Notturno |
A chamber music piece commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and first performed May 15, 1973 a Alice Tully Hall, New York City, by Speculum Musicae. |
1974 |
Music |
Donald Martino |
|
|
Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin |
For his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971. |
1974 |
National Reporting |
Jack White |
|
|
Washington Star-News |
For his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972. |
1974 |
National Reporting |
James R. Polk |
|
Farrar |
The Dolphin |
|
1974 |
Poetry |
Robert Lowell |
|
|
Newsday |
For its definitive report on the illicit narcotic traffic in the United States and abroad, entitled, "The Heroin Trail." |
1974 |
Public Service |
Newsday |
|
|
|
For his picture series, "Fatal Hollywood Drama," in which an alleged kidnapper was killed. |
1974 |
Spot News Photography |
Anthony K. Roberts |
|
|
|
For his life's work as a distinguished American composer. |
1974 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Roger Sessions |
|
Knopf |
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York |
|
1975 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Robert Caro |
|
|
The Washington Star |
For her commentary on public affairs during 1974. |
1975 |
Commentary |
Mary McGrory |
|
|
Chicago Sun-Times |
For his film criticism during 1974. |
1975 |
Criticism |
Roger Ebert |
|
|
Seascape |
|
1975 |
Drama |
Edward Albee |
|
|
Universal Press Syndicate |
For his cartoon strip Doonesbury. |
1975 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Garry Trudeau |
|
|
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail |
For his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook controversy. |
1975 |
Editorial Writing |
John Daniell Maurice |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his photographs in color and black and white. |
1975 |
Feature Photography |
Matthew Lewis |
|
McKay |
The Killer Angels |
|
1975 |
Fiction |
Michael Shaara |
|
Harper's Magazine Press |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
|
1975 |
General Nonfiction |
Annie Dillard |
|
Little |
Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V |
|
1975 |
History |
Dumas Malone |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For their coverage of famine in Africa and India. |
1975 |
International Reporting |
William Mullen and Ovie Carter |
|
|
Xenia (OH) Daily Gazette |
For its coverage, under enormous difficulties, of the tornado that wrecked the city on April 3, 1974. |
1975 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
Indianapolis Star |
For its disclosures of local police corruption and dilatory law enforcement, resulting in a cleanup of both the Police Department and the office of the County Prosecutor. |
1975 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf |
For medium voice and piano, commissioned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, and premiered January 5, 1975 in Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis. |
1975 |
Music |
Dominick Argento |
|
|
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For their series "Auditing the Internal Revenue Service," which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws. |
1975 |
National Reporting |
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele |
|
New Directions |
Turtle Island |
|
1975 |
Poetry |
Gary Snyder |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For its massive and balanced coverage of the Boston school desegregation crisis. |
1975 |
Public Service |
The Boston Globe |
|
|
The Seattle Times |
For his photograph of four exhausted firemen, "Lull in the Battle." |
1975 |
Spot News Photography |
Gerald H. Gay |
|
|
|
A special citation and an antique plaque inscribed by all the members of the Advisory Board, expressing appreciation for his services for 22 years as Administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and for his achievements as teacher and journalist. |
1976 |
|
Professor John Hohenberg |
|
|
|
Bestowed posthumously in this Bicentennial Year, for his contributions to American music. |
1976 |
|
Scott Joplin |
|
Harper |
Edith Wharton: A Biography |
|
1976 |
Biography or Autobiography |
R. W. B. Lewis |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his commentary on sports in 1975 and for many other years. |
1976 |
Commentary |
Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his critical writing about the dance during 1975. |
1976 |
Criticism |
Alan M. Kriegsman |
|
|
A Chorus Line |
|
1976 |
Drama |
Michael Bennett |
|
|
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For "O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain," published on July 22, 1975. |
1976 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Tony Auth |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his editorials against government secrecy and judicial censorship. |
1976 |
Editorial Writing |
Philip P. Kerby |
|
|
Louisville Courier-Journal and Times |
For a comprehensive pictorial report on busing in Louisville's schools. |
1976 |
Feature Photography |
Photographic Staff |
|
Viking |
Humboldt's Gift |
|
1976 |
Fiction |
Saul Bellow |
|
Harper |
Why Survive? Being Old In America |
|
1976 |
General Nonfiction |
Robert N. Butler |
|
Farrar |
Lamy of Santa Fe |
|
1976 |
History |
Paul Horgan |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his coverage of the Communist takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after the fall of Pnom Penh. |
1976 |
International Reporting |
Sydney H. Schanberg |
|
|
Miami Herald |
For his persistent and courageous reporting over eight and one-half years that led to the exoneration and release of two men who had twice been tried for murder and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Florida. |
1976 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Gene Miller |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For uncovering widespread abuses in Federal housing programs in Chicago and exposing shocking conditions at two private Chicago hospitals. |
1976 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
Air Music |
First performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on December 5, 1975. It is subtitled "Ten Etudes of Orchestra." |
1976 |
Music |
Ned Rorem |
|
|
Des Moines Register |
For disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade. |
1976 |
National Reporting |
James Risser |
|
Viking |
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
|
1976 |
Poetry |
John Ashbery |
|
|
Anchorage Daily News |
For its disclosures of the impact and influence of the Teamsters Union on Alaska's economy and politics. |
1976 |
Public Service |
Anchorage Daily News |
|
|
Boston Herald American |
For his sequence of photographs of a fire in Boston on July 22, 1975. |
1976 |
Spot News Photography |
Stanley Forman |
|
|
|
A special award is bestowed posthumously on Scott Joplin, in this Bicentennial Year, for his contributions to American music. |
1976 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Scott Joplin |
|
|
|
A special citation and an antique plaque inscribed by all the members of the Advisory Board, expressing appreciation for his services for 22 years as Administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and for his achievements as teacher and journalist. |
1976 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Professor John Hohenberg |
|
|
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A special award for Roots, the story of a black family from its origins in Africa through seven generations to the present day in America. |
1977 |
|
Alex Haley |
|
Little |
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence |
|
1977 |
Biography or Autobiography |
John E. Mack |
|
|
The Washington Post Writers Group |
For distinguished commentary on a variety of topics. |
1977 |
Commentary |
George F. Will |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his contribution to "Book World." |
1977 |
Criticism |
William McPherson |
|
|
The Shadow Box |
|
1977 |
Drama |
Michael Cristofer |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
|
1977 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Paul Szep |
|
|
Reno (Nev.) Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal |
For editorials challenging the power of a local brothel keeper. |
1977 |
Editorial Writing |
Warren L. Lerude, Foster Church and Norman F. Cardoza |
|
|
Chattanooga News-Free Press |
For his photograph of a disabled veteran and his child at an Armed Forces Day parade. |
1977 |
Feature Photography |
Robin Hood |
|
Atlantic Little Brown |
Beautiful Swimmers |
|
1977 |
General Nonfiction |
William W. Warner |
|
Harper |
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, a posthumous publication. (Manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacker |
|
1977 |
History |
David M. Potter |
|
|
The Milwaukee Journal |
For her reports on the elderly and the process of aging. |
1977 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Margo Huston |
|
|
the Philadelphia Inquirer |
For their reports on conditions in the Farview (Pa.) State Hospital for the mentally ill. |
1977 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Acel Moore and Wendell Rawls Jr. |
|
|
Visions of Terror and Wonder |
For mezzo-soprano and orchestra, premiered at the Aspen Music Festival, July 19, 1976. It was commissioned by the Festival's Conference on Contemporary Music, with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
1977 |
Music |
Richard Wernick |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his coverage of the 1976 Presidential campaign. |
1977 |
National Reporting |
Walter Mears |
|
Atheneum |
Divine Comedies |
|
1977 |
Poetry |
James Merrill |
|
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Lufkin (TX) News |
For an obituary of a local man who died in Marine training camp, which grew into an investigation of that death and a fundamental reform in the recruiting and training practices of the United States Marine Corps. |
1977 |
Public Service |
Lufkin (TX) News |
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Boston Herald American |
For his photograph of a youth using the flag as a lance in street disorders. |
1977 |
Spot News Photography |
Stanley Forman |
|
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Associated Press |
For a series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok. |
1977 |
Spot News Photography |
Neal Ulevich |
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For Roots, the story of a black family from its origins in Africa through seven generations to the present day in America. |
1977 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Alex Haley |
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For distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and contributor to The New Republic. |
1978 |
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Richard Lee Strout |
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For his letters, essays and the full body of his work. |
1978 |
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E.B. White |
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Harcourt |
Samuel Johnson |
|
1978 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Walter Jackson Bate |
|
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The New York Times |
For commentary on the Bert Lance affair. |
1978 |
Commentary |
William Safire |
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The New York Times |
For articles on the theater in 1977 and throughout his long career. |
1978 |
Criticism |
Walter Kerr |
|
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The Gin Game |
|
1978 |
Drama |
Donald L. Coburn |
|
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Richmond (VA) News Leader |
|
1978 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jeffrey K. MacNelly |
|
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The Washington Post |
For selected samples of her work. |
1978 |
Editorial Writing |
Meg Greenfield |
|
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Associated Press |
For three photographs from guerrilla areas in Rhodesia. |
1978 |
Feature Photography |
J. Ross Baughman |
|
Atlantic Monthly Press |
Elbow Room |
|
1978 |
Fiction |
James Alan McPherson |
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Random House |
The Dragons of Eden |
|
1978 |
General Nonfiction |
Carl Sagan |
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business |
|
1978 |
History |
Alfred D. Chandler |
|
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The New York Times |
For his stories on the refugees, "boat people," from Indochina. |
1978 |
International Reporting |
Henry Kamm |
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Louisville Courier-Journal |
For his coverage of a fire that took 164 lives at the Beverly Hills Supper Club at Southgate, Ky., and subsequent investigation of the lack of enforcement of state fire codes. |
1978 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Richard Whitt |
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The Stamford (CT) Advocate |
For a series on municipal corruption. |
1978 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Anthony R. Dolan |
|
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Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra |
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered by that orchestra October 20, 1977. |
1978 |
Music |
Michael Colgrass |
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Los Angeles Times |
For a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams. |
1978 |
National Reporting |
Gaylord D. Shaw |
|
Univ. of Chicago |
Collected Poems |
|
1978 |
Poetry |
Howard Nemerov |
|
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For a series of articles showing abuses of power by the police in its home city. |
1978 |
Public Service |
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
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United Press International |
For a photograph of an Indianapolis broker being held hostage at gunpoint. |
1978 |
Spot News Photography |
John H. Blair |
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For distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and contributor to The New Republic. |
1978 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Richard Lee Strout |
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For his letters, essays and the full body of his work. |
1978 |
Special Awards and Citations |
E.B. White |
|
Macmillan |
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews |
|
1979 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Leonard Baker |
|
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The New York Times |
|
1979 |
Commentary |
Russell Baker |
|
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Chicago Tribune |
|
1979 |
Criticism |
Paul Gapp |
|
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Buried Child |
|
1979 |
Drama |
Sam Shepard |
|
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The Washington Post |
For the body of his work. |
1979 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Herbert L. Block |
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The Washington Star |
|
1979 |
Editorial Writing |
Edwin M. Yoder Jr. |
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Boston Herald American |
For photographic coverage of the blizzard of 1978. |
1979 |
Feature Photography |
Staff Photographers |
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Baltimore Evening Sun |
For an account of brain surgery. |
1979 |
Feature Writing |
Jon D. Franklin |
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Knopf |
The Stories of John Cheever |
|
1979 |
Fiction |
John Cheever |
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Harvard Univ. Press |
On Human Nature |
|
1979 |
General Nonfiction |
Edward O. Wilson |
|
Oxford Univ. Press |
The Dred Scott Case |
|
1979 |
History |
Don E. Fehrenbacher |
|
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For reports from the Middle East. |
1979 |
International Reporting |
Richard Ben Cramer |
|
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San Diego (CA) Evening Tribune |
For its coverage of the collision of a Pacific Southwest air liner with a small plane over its city. |
1979 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
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Pottsville (PA) Republican |
For stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime. |
1979 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin |
|
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Aftertones of Infinity |
First performed by the American Composers Orchestra on January 29, 1979 in Alice Tully Hall New York City. |
1979 |
Music |
Joseph Schwantner |
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Des Moines Register |
For a series on farming damage to the environment. |
1979 |
National Reporting |
James Risser |
|
Random |
Now and Then |
|
1979 |
Poetry |
Robert Penn Warren |
|
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Point Reyes Light |
For its investigation of Synanon. |
1979 |
Public Service |
Point Reyes Light |
|
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Pottstown (PA) Mercury |
For a series called "Tragedy on Sanatoga Road." |
1979 |
Spot News Photography |
Thomas J. Kelly III |
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Coward |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
|
1980 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Edmund Morris |
|
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The Boston Globe |
|
1980 |
Commentary |
Ellen H. Goodman |
|
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The Boston Globe |
For critical writing about television. |
1980 |
Criticism |
William A. Henry III |
|
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Talley's Folly |
|
1980 |
Drama |
Lanford Wilson |
|
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The Miami News |
|
1980 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Don Wright |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
|
1980 |
Editorial Writing |
Robert L. Bartley |
|
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Dallas Times Herald |
For a series on the Western cowboy. |
1980 |
Feature Photography |
Erwin H. Hagler |
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The Miami Herald |
For "Zepp's Last Stand." |
1980 |
Feature Writing |
Madeleine Blais |
|
Little |
The Executioner's Song |
|
1980 |
Fiction |
Norman Mailer |
|
Basic Books |
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid |
|
1980 |
General Nonfiction |
Douglas R. Hofstadter |
|
Knopf |
Been in the Storm So Long |
|
1980 |
History |
Leon F. Litwack |
|
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Louisville Courier-Journal |
For stories from Cambodia. |
1980 |
International Reporting |
Joel Brinkley and Jay Mather |
|
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For coverage of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. |
1980 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The Boston Globe |
For articles on Boston's transit system. |
1980 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield |
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In Memory of a Summer Day |
A work for soprano solo and orchestra, commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony for its 100th anniversary and premiered by that orchestra on February 23, 1980. |
1980 |
Music |
David Del Tredici |
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St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
For their investigation of the Church of Scientology. |
1980 |
National Reporting |
Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford |
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Atheneum |
Selected Poems |
|
1980 |
Poetry |
Donald Justice |
|
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Gannett News Service |
For its series on financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers. |
1980 |
Public Service |
Gannett News Service |
|
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Ettela'at |
For the photograph "Firing Squad in Iran" that was distributed by United Press International. The photographer remained anonymous until his identity was revealed, with his consent, by Josh Prager of The Wall Street Journal in 2006. |
1980 |
Spot News Photography |
Jahangir Razmi |
|
Knopf |
Peter the Great: His Life and World |
|
1981 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Robert K. Massie |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his commentary on sports. |
1981 |
Commentary |
Dave Anderson |
|
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The Washington Star |
For his book reviews. |
1981 |
Criticism |
Jonathan Yardley |
|
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Crimes of the Heart |
|
1981 |
Drama |
Beth Henley |
|
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Dayton (OH) Daily News |
|
1981 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Mike Peters |
|
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Detroit Free Press |
For his photographs of Jackson (Mich.) State Prison. |
1981 |
Feature Photography |
Taro M. Yamasaki |
|
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The Village Voice |
(The prize was first awarded to Janet Cooke of The Washington Post, but it was returned two days later after The Post learned that the winning story was fabricated.) |
1981 |
Feature Writing |
Teresa Carpenter |
|
Louisiana State U. Press |
A Confederacy of Dunces |
|
1981 |
Fiction |
John Kennedy Toole |
|
Knopf |
Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture |
|
1981 |
General Nonfiction |
Carl E. Schorske |
|
Harper & Row |
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 |
|
1981 |
History |
Lawrence A. Cremin |
|
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The Miami Herald |
For her dispatches from Central America. |
1981 |
International Reporting |
Shirley Christian |
|
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Longview (WA) Daily News |
For its coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story, including the photographs by Roger A. Werth. |
1981 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The Arizona Daily Star |
For their investigation of the University of Arizona Athletic Department. |
1981 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Clark Hallas and Robert B. Lowe |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration. |
1981 |
National Reporting |
John M. Crewdson |
|
Farrar |
The Morning of the Poem |
|
1981 |
Poetry |
James Schuyler |
|
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Charlotte (NC) Observer |
For its series on "Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect." |
1981 |
Public Service |
Charlotte (NC) Observer |
|
|
Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram |
For his photographs from Liberia. |
1981 |
Spot News Photography |
Larry C. Price |
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|
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For his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer. |
1982 |
|
Milton Babbitt |
|
Norton |
Grant: A Biography |
|
1982 |
Biography or Autobiography |
William McFeely |
|
|
Los Angeles Times Syndicate |
|
1982 |
Commentary |
Art Buchwald |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For classical music criticism. |
1982 |
Criticism |
Martin Bernheimer |
|
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A Soldier's Play |
|
1982 |
Drama |
Charles Fuller |
|
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Austin (TX) American-Statesman |
|
1982 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Ben Sargent |
|
|
The New York Times |
|
1982 |
Editorial Writing |
Jack Rosenthal |
|
|
Chicago Sun-Times |
For consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects. |
1982 |
Feature Photography |
John H. White |
|
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Associated Press |
For an article profiling the federal bureaucracy. |
1982 |
Feature Writing |
Saul Pett |
|
Knopf |
Rabbit Is Rich |
|
1982 |
Fiction |
John Updike |
|
Atlanti'Little |
The Soul of A New Machine |
|
1982 |
General Nonfiction |
Tracy Kidder |
|
Yale U. Press |
Mary Chesnut's Civil War |
|
1982 |
History |
C. Vann Woodward |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his reporting from Poland. |
1982 |
International Reporting |
John Darnton |
|
|
Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times |
For coverage of the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster and identification of its causes. |
1982 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The Seattle Times |
For reporting which proved the innocence of a man convicted of rape. |
1982 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Paul Henderson |
|
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Concerto for Orchestra |
First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 23, 1981, Seiji Ozawa, conductor. |
1982 |
Music |
Roger Sessions |
|
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The Kansas City Times |
For the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import. |
1982 |
National Reporting |
Rick Atkinson |
|
Harper & Row |
The Collected Poems |
|
1982 |
Poetry |
Sylvia Plath |
|
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The Detroit News |
For a series by Sydney P. Freedberg and David Ashenfelter which exposed the U.S. Navy's cover-up of circumstances surrounding the deaths of seamen aboard ship and which led to significant reforms in naval procedures. |
1982 |
Public Service |
The Detroit News |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his coverage of the Reagan assassination attempt. |
1982 |
Spot News Photography |
Ron Edmonds |
|
|
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For his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer. |
1982 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Milton Babbitt |
|
Congdon & Weed |
Growing Up |
|
1983 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Russell Baker |
|
|
Raleigh (NC) News & Observer |
|
1983 |
Commentary |
Claude Sitton |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For her wide-ranging criticism on the arts and other subjects. |
1983 |
Criticism |
Manuela Hoelterhoff |
|
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Night, Mother |
|
1983 |
Drama |
Marsha Norman |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
|
1983 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Richard Locher |
|
|
The Miami Herald |
For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials. |
1983 |
Editorial Writing |
Miami Herald Editorial Board |
|
|
Dallas Times Herald |
For his telling photographs of life and death in El Salvador. |
1983 |
Feature Photography |
James B. Dickman |
|
|
The New York Times |
For her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with toxic shock syndrome. |
1983 |
Feature Writing |
Nan Robertson |
|
Harcourt Brace |
The Color Purple |
|
1983 |
Fiction |
Alice Walker |
|
Houghton Mifflin |
Is There No Place On Earth For Me? |
|
1983 |
General Nonfiction |
Susan Sheehan |
|
U. North Carolina Press |
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 |
|
1983 |
History |
Rhys L. Isaac |
|
|
The New York Times and The Washington Post |
For their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath. |
1983 |
International Reporting |
Thomas L. Friedman and Loren Jenkins |
|
|
Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel |
For its courageous and resourceful coverage of a devastating flood in March 1982. |
1983 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Editorial Staff |
|
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The Washington Post |
For her investigation of rape and sexual assault in the Prince George's County, Maryland, Detention Center. |
1983 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Loretta Tofani |
|
|
Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) |
Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982 in Alice Tully Hall, New York City. |
1983 |
Music |
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich |
|
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The Boston Globe |
For its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race. |
1983 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
|
Houghton Mifflin |
Selected Poems |
|
1983 |
Poetry |
Galway Kinnell |
|
|
Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger |
For its successful campaign supporting Governor Winter in his legislative battle for reform of Mississippi's public education system. |
1983 |
Public Service |
Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his moving series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the Sabra Camp in Beirut. |
1983 |
Spot News Photography |
Bill Foley |
|
|
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For his special contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents. |
1984 |
|
Theodor Seuss Geisel |
|
Oxford U. Press |
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 |
|
1984 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Louis R. Harlan |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
|
1984 |
Commentary |
Vermont Royster |
|
|
The New York Times |
For architectural criticism. |
1984 |
Criticism |
Paul Goldberger |
|
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Glengarry Glen Ross |
|
1984 |
Drama |
David Mamet |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
|
1984 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Paul Conrad |
|
|
Georgia Gazette |
For his series of editorials on various local and state matters. |
1984 |
Editorial Writing |
Albert Scardino |
|
|
The Denver Post |
For a series of photographs which depict the tragic effects of starvation in Ethiopia and for a single photograph of a woman at her husband's gravesite on Memorial Day. |
1984 |
Feature Photography |
Anthony Suau |
|
|
The Seattle Times |
For "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner. |
1984 |
Feature Writing |
Peter Mark Rinearson |
|
Viking |
Ironweed |
|
1984 |
Fiction |
William Kennedy |
|
Basic Books |
The Social Transformation Of American Medicine |
|
1984 |
General Nonfiction |
Paul Starr |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan. |
1984 |
International Reporting |
Karen Elliott House |
|
|
Newsday |
For their enterprising and comprehensive coverage of the Baby Jane Doe case and its far-reaching social and political implications. |
1984 |
Local General or Spot News Reporting |
Newsday team of reporters |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city's most honored institutions including The Globe itself. |
1984 |
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting |
Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary Mc Millan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel |
|
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"Canti del Sole" for Tenor and Orchestra |
Premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on June 8, 1983. |
1984 |
Music |
Bernard Rands |
|
|
The New York Times |
For reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import. |
1984 |
National Reporting |
John Noble Wilford |
|
Atlanti'Little |
American Primitive |
|
1984 |
Poetry |
Mary Oliver |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For an in-depth examination of southern California's growing Latino community by a team of editors and reporters. |
1984 |
Public Service |
Los Angeles Times |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For his series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon. |
1984 |
Spot News Photography |
Stan Grossfeld |
|
|
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For his special contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents. |
1984 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) |
|
|
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For more than half a century of contribution to American music as composer and educational leader. |
1985 |
|
William Schuman |
|
Harper & Row |
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather |
|
1985 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Kenneth Silverman |
|
|
Newsday |
For witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career. |
1985 |
Commentary |
Murray Kempton |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his television criticism. |
1985 |
Criticism |
Howard Rosenberg |
|
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Sunday in the Park With George |
|
1985 |
Drama |
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
|
1985 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jeff MacNelly |
|
|
The Philadelphia Daily News |
For his editorials on a variety of subjects. |
1985 |
Editorial Writing |
Richard Aregood |
|
|
The Baltimore Evening Sun |
For his seven-part series "The Mind Fixers," about the new science of molecular psychiatry. |
1985 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Jon Franklin |
|
|
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his series of photographs from Angola and El Salvador depicting their war-torn inhabitants. |
1985 |
Feature Photography |
Larry C. Price |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For his series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and for his pictures of illegal aliens on the Mexican border. |
1985 |
Feature Photography |
Stan Grossfeld |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For her account of a blind boy's world, "A Boy of Unusual Vision." |
1985 |
Feature Writing |
Alice Steinbach |
|
Random House |
Foreign Affairs |
|
1985 |
Fiction |
Alison Lurie |
|
|
Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star |
For City Hall coverage which exposed the corruption of a local economic development official. |
1985 |
General News Reporting |
Thomas Turcol |
|
Pantheon |
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two |
|
1985 |
General Nonfiction |
Studs Terkel |
|
Belknap/Harvard |
Prophets of Regulation |
|
1985 |
History |
Thomas K. McCraw |
|
|
Newsday |
For their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa. |
1985 |
International Reporting |
Josh Friedman, Dennis Bell, and Ozier Muhammad |
|
|
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his revelation that city police dogs had attacked more than 350 people -- an expose that led to investigations of the K-9 unit and the removal of a dozen officers from it. |
1985 |
Investigative Reporting |
William K. Marimow |
|
|
St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
For their thorough reporting on Pasco County Sheriff John Short, which revealed his department's corruption and led to his removal from office by voters. |
1985 |
Investigative Reporting |
Lucy Morgan and Jack Reed |
|
|
Symphony, RiverRun |
Premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra on January 17, 1985. |
1985 |
Music |
Stephen Albert |
|
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Des Moines Register |
For his series of articles that examined the dangers of farming as an occupation. |
1985 |
National Reporting |
Thomas J. Knudson |
|
BOA Editions |
Yin |
|
1985 |
Poetry |
Carolyn Kizer |
|
|
Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram |
For reporting by Mark J. Thompson which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by Bell Helicopter -a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification. |
1985 |
Public Service |
Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram |
|
|
Macon (GA) Telegraph and News |
For their in-depth examination of academics and athletics at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology. |
1985 |
Specialized Reporting |
Randall Savage and Jackie Crosby |
|
|
The Register |
For their exceptional coverage of the Olympic games. |
1985 |
Spot News Photography |
Photography Staff |
|
|
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For more than half a century of contribution to American music as composer and educational leader. |
1985 |
Special Awards and Citations |
William Schuman |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Louise Bogan: A Portrait |
|
1986 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Elizabeth Frank |
|
|
New York Daily News |
For columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens |
1986 |
Commentary |
Jimmy Breslin |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his music criticism. |
1986 |
Criticism |
Donal Henahan |
|
|
The Village Voice |
|
1986 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jules Feiffer |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For his editorials on constitutional issues. |
1986 |
Editorial Writing |
Jack Fuller |
|
|
The New York Times |
For a six-part comprehensive series on the Strategic Defense Initiative, which explored the scientific, political and foreign policy issues involved in "Star Wars." |
1986 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Staff |
|
|
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his series of photographs of Philadelphia's homeless. |
1986 |
Feature Photography |
Tom Gralish |
|
|
St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch |
For his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression. |
1986 |
Feature Writing |
John Camp |
|
Simon & Schuster |
Lonesome Dove |
|
1986 |
Fiction |
Larry McMurtry |
|
|
The Miami Herald |
For her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting. |
1986 |
General News Reporting |
Edna Buchanan |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
|
1986 |
General Nonfiction |
J. Anthony Lukas |
|
Times Books |
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White |
|
1986 |
General Nonfiction |
Joseph Lelyveld |
|
Basic Books |
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age |
|
1986 |
History |
Walter A. McDougall |
|
|
San Jose (CA) Mercury News |
For their June 1985 series that documented massive transfers of wealth abroad by President Marcos and his associates and had a direct impact on subsequent political developments in the Philippines and the United States. |
1986 |
International Reporting |
Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Ellison |
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Lexington (KY) Herald Leader |
For their series "Playing Above the Rules," which exposed cash payoffs to University of Kentucky basketball players in violation of NCAA regulations and led to significant reforms. |
1986 |
Investigative Reporting |
Jeffrey A. Marx and Michael M. York |
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Wind Quintet IV |
Premiered on October 2, 1985 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. |
1986 |
Music |
George Perle |
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The Dallas Morning News |
For their investigation into subsidized housing in East Texas, which uncovered patterns of racial discrimination and segregation in public housing across the United States and led to significant reforms. |
1986 |
National Reporting |
Craig Flournoy and George Rodrigue |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his enterprising and indefatigable reporting on massive deficiencies in IRS processing of tax returns-reporting that eventually inspired major changes in IRS procedures and prompted the agency to make a public apology to U.S. taxpayers. |
1986 |
National Reporting |
Arthur Howe |
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Louisiana State University Press |
The Flying Change |
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1986 |
Poetry |
Henry Taylor |
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The Denver Post |
For its in-depth study of "missing children," which revealed that most are involved in custody disputes or are runaways, and which helped mitigate national fears stirred by exaggerated statistics. |
1986 |
Public Service |
The Denver Post |
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Pittsburgh Press |
For their investigation of violations and failures in the organ transplantation system in the United States. |
1986 |
Specialized Reporting |
Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty |
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The Miami Herald |
For their photographs of the devastation caused by the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia. |
1986 |
Spot News Photography |
Carol Guzy and Michel du Cille |
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For his extraordinary services to American journalism and letters during his 31 years as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board and for his accomplishments as an editor and publisher. |
1987 |
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Joseph Pulitzer Jr. |
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William Morrow |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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1987 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David J. Garrow |
|
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The Washington Post Writers Group |
For his witty and insightful columns on national issues. |
1987 |
Commentary |
Charles Krauthammer |
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Los Angeles Times |
For his book reviews. |
1987 |
Criticism |
Richard Eder |
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Fences |
|
1987 |
Drama |
August Wilson |
|
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The Washington Post Writers Group |
|
1987 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Berke Breathed |
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The Tribune |
For his editorials urging passage of the first major immigration reform act in 34 years. |
1987 |
Editorial Writing |
Jonathan Freedman |
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Chicago Tribune |
For their series on the promises of gene therapy, which examined the implications of this revolutionary medical treatment. |
1987 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Jeff Lyon and Peter Gorner |
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Des Moines Register |
For his photographs depicting the shattered dreams of American farmers. |
1987 |
Feature Photography |
David Peterson |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier. |
1987 |
Feature Writing |
Steve Twomey |
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Alfred A. Knopf |
A Summons to Memphis |
|
1987 |
Fiction |
Peter Taylor |
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Akron Beacon Journal |
For its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. by a European financier. |
1987 |
General News Reporting |
Staff |
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Times Books |
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land |
|
1987 |
General Nonfiction |
David K. Shipler |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution |
|
1987 |
History |
Bernard Bailyn |
|
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Los Angeles Times |
For his balanced and comprehensive coverage of South Africa. |
1987 |
International Reporting |
Michael Parks |
|
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For outstanding prison beat reporting, which included proving the innocence of a man convicted of murder. |
1987 |
Investigative Reporting |
John Woestendiek |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For their series "Disorder in the Court," which revealed transgressions of justice in the Philadelphia court system and led to federal and state investigations. |
1987 |
Investigative Reporting |
Daniel R. Biddle, H. G. Bissinger and Fredric N. Tulsky |
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The Flight Into Egypt |
Premiered by the Cantata Singers and Ensemble on November 21, 1986, at the New England Conservatory in Boston. |
1987 |
Music |
John Harbison |
|
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Miami Herald |
For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S. -- Iran-Contra connection. |
1987 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The New York Times |
For coverage of the aftermath of the Challenger explosion, which included stories that identified serious flaws in the shuttle's design and in the administration of America's space program. |
1987 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
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Carnegie-Mellon University Press |
Thomas and Beulah |
|
1987 |
Poetry |
Rita Dove |
|
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The Pittsburgh Press |
For reporting by Andrew Schneider and Matthew Brelis, which revealed the inadequacy of the FAA's medical screening of airline pilots and led to significant reforms. |
1987 |
Public Service |
The Pittsburgh Press |
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The New York Times |
For "The Fall of the House of Bingham," a skillful and sensitive report of a powerful newspaper family's bickering and how it led to the sale of a famed media empire. |
1987 |
Specialized Reporting |
Alex S. Jones |
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San Francisco Examiner |
For his photographic coverage of the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. |
1987 |
Spot News Photography |
Kim Komenich |
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For his extraordinary services to American journalism and letters during his 31 years as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board and for his accomplishments as an editor and publisher. |
1987 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. |
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Little |
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe |
|
1988 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David Herbert Donald |
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The Miami Herald |
For his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns. |
1988 |
Commentary |
Dave Barry |
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The Washington Post |
For his television criticism. |
1988 |
Criticism |
Tom Shales |
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Driving Miss Daisy |
|
1988 |
Drama |
Alfred Uhry |
|
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The Atlanta Constitution and Charlotte Observer |
|
1988 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Doug Marlette |
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Orlando Sentinel |
For her series of editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange County. |
1988 |
Editorial Writing |
Jane Healy |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For their stories about an investment banker charged with insider trading and the critical day that followed the October 19, 1987, stock market crash. |
1988 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Daniel Hertzberg and James B. Stewart |
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The Miami Herald |
For photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack. |
1988 |
Feature Photography |
Michel du Cille |
|
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St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch |
For her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community. |
1988 |
Feature Writing |
Jacqui Banaszynski |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Beloved |
|
1988 |
Fiction |
Toni Morrison |
|
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Lawrence (MA) Eagle-Tribune |
For an investigation that revealed serious flaws in the Massachusetts prison furlough system and led to significant statewide reforms. |
1988 |
General News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The Alabama Journal |
For its compelling investigation of the state's unusually high infant-mortality rate, which prompted legislation to combat the problem. |
1988 |
General News Reporting |
Staff |
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Simon and Schuster |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
|
1988 |
General Nonfiction |
Richard Rhodes |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 |
|
1988 |
History |
Robert V. Bruce |
|
|
The New York Times |
For balanced and informed coverage of Israel. |
1988 |
International Reporting |
Thomas L. Friedman |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For their detailed reporting on the self-interest and waste that plague Chicago's City Council. |
1988 |
Investigative Reporting |
Dean Baquet, William Gaines and Ann Marie Lipinski |
|
|
12 New Etudes for Piano |
First complete performance by Marc-Andre Hamelin, pianist, on March 30, 1987 at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. |
1988 |
Music |
William Bolcom |
|
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget used by the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup. |
1988 |
National Reporting |
Tim Weiner |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems |
|
1988 |
Poetry |
William Meredith |
|
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The Charlotte Observer |
For revealing misuse of funds by the PTL television ministry through persistent coverage conducted in the face of a massive campaign by PTL to discredit the newspaper. |
1988 |
Public Service |
The Charlotte Observer |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his chilling series of reports on faulty testing by American medical laboratories. |
1988 |
Specialized Reporting |
Walt Bogdanich |
|
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Odessa (TX) American |
For his photograph of the child Jessica McClure being rescued from the well into which she had fallen. |
1988 |
Spot News Photography |
Scott Shaw |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Oscar Wilde |
|
1989 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Richard Ellmann |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For his provocative columns on local and national affairs. |
1989 |
Commentary |
Clarence Page |
|
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News and Observer |
For his writing about books and other literary topics. |
1989 |
Criticism |
Michael Skube |
|
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The Heidi Chronicles |
|
1989 |
Drama |
Wendy Wasserstein |
|
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Chicago Sun-Times |
|
1989 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jack Higgins |
|
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Chicago Tribune |
For her editorials on a variety of local issues. |
1989 |
Editorial Writing |
Lois Wille |
|
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The Dallas Morning News |
For their special report on a 1986 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety. |
1989 |
Explanatory Journalism |
David Hanners, William Snyder, and Karen Blessen |
|
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Detroit Free Press |
For his series of photographs. depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit. |
1989 |
Feature Photography |
Manny Crisostomo |
|
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa." |
1989 |
Feature Writing |
David Zucchino |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Breathing Lessons |
|
1989 |
Fiction |
Anne Tyler |
|
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Louisville Courier-Journal |
For its exemplary initial coverage of a bus crash that claimed 27 lives and its subsequent thorough and effective examination of the causes and implications of the tragedy. |
1989 |
General News Reporting |
Staff |
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Random House |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
|
1989 |
General Nonfiction |
Neil Sheehan |
|
Oxford University Press |
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era |
|
1989 |
History |
James M. McPherson |
|
Simon and Schuster |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 |
|
1989 |
History |
Taylor Branch |
|
|
The New York Times |
For resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R. |
1989 |
International Reporting |
Bill Keller |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East. |
1989 |
International Reporting |
Glenn Frankel |
|
|
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution |
For his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies. |
1989 |
Investigative Reporting |
Bill Dedman |
|
|
Whispers Out of Time |
Premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts. |
1989 |
Music |
Roger Reynolds |
|
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses. |
1989 |
National Reporting |
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele |
|
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
New and Collected Poems |
|
1989 |
Poetry |
Richard Wilbur |
|
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Anchorage Daily News |
For reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on their despair and resulted in various reforms. |
1989 |
Public Service |
Anchorage Daily News |
|
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Orange County Register |
For his in-depth reporting on the military establishment in Southern California. |
1989 |
Specialized Reporting |
Edward Humes |
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For a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building. |
1989 |
Spot News Photography |
Ron Olshwanger |
|
Princeton University Press |
Machiavelli in Hell |
|
1990 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Sebastian de Grazia |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his sports columns. |
1990 |
Commentary |
Jim Murray |
|
|
San Francisco Chronicle |
For his architecture criticism. |
1990 |
Criticism |
Allan Temko |
|
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The Piano Lesson |
|
1990 |
Drama |
August Wilson |
|
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The Buffalo News |
For his work during the year as exemplified by the cartoon "First Amendment." |
1990 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Tom Toles |
|
|
The Pottstown (PA) Mercury |
For his editorials about a local bond issue for the preservation of farmland and other open space in rural Pennsylvania. |
1990 |
Editorial Writing |
Thomas J. Hylton |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For stories scrutinizing the Securities and Exchange Commission and the way it has been affected by the policies of its former chairman, John Shad. |
1990 |
Explanatory Journalism |
David A. Vise and Steve Coll |
|
|
Detroit Free Press |
For photographs of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe. |
1990 |
Feature Photography |
David C. Turnley |
|
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Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph |
For a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home. |
1990 |
Feature Writing |
Dave Curtin |
|
Farrar |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
|
1990 |
Fiction |
Oscar Hijuelos |
|
|
San Jose (CA) Mercury News |
For its detailed coverage of the October 17, 1989, Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath. |
1990 |
General News Reporting |
Staff |
|
Pantheon |
And Their Children After Them |
|
1990 |
General Nonfiction |
Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson |
|
Random House |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines |
|
1990 |
History |
Stanley Karnow |
|
|
The New York Times |
For knowledgeable reporting from China on the mass movement for democracy and its subsequent suppression. |
1990 |
International Reporting |
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn |
|
|
Star Tribune |
For reporting that exposed a network of local citizens who had links to members of the St. Paul fire department and who profited from fires, including some described by the fire department itself as being of suspicious origin. |
1990 |
Investigative Reporting |
Lou Kilzer and Chris Ison |
|
|
"Duplicates": A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra |
Premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on January 26, 1990. |
1990 |
Music |
Mel Powell |
|
|
The Seattle Times |
For coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath. |
1990 |
National Reporting |
Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn and Eric Nalder |
|
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
The World Doesn't End |
|
1990 |
Poetry |
Charles Simic |
|
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Washington (NC) Daily News |
For revealing that the city's water supply was contaminated with carcinogens, a problem that the local government had neither disclosed nor corrected over a period of eight years. |
1990 |
Public Service |
Washington (NC) Daily News |
|
|
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For reporting by Gilbert M. Gaul that disclosed how the American blood industry operates with little government regulation or supervision. |
1990 |
Public Service |
Staff |
|
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Albuquerque Journal |
For persistent reporting that linked a rare blood disorder to an over-the-counter dietary supplement, L-Tryptophan, and led to a national recall of the product. |
1990 |
Specialized Reporting |
Tamar Stieber |
|
|
The Tribune |
For photographs of devastation caused by the Bay Area earthquake of October 17, 1989. |
1990 |
Spot News Photography |
Photo Staff |
|
|
The New York Times |
For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics. |
1991 |
Beat Reporting |
Natalie Angier |
|
Clarkson N. Potter |
Jackson Pollock |
|
1991 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
1991 |
Commentary |
Jim Hoagland |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case. |
1991 |
Criticism |
David Shaw |
|
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Lost in Yonkers |
|
1991 |
Drama |
Neil Simon |
|
|
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
|
1991 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jim Borgman |
|
|
The Birmingham (AL) News |
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms. |
1991 |
Editorial Writing |
Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., that revealed the human costs of high finance. |
1991 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Susan C. Faludi |
|
|
The Dallas Morning News |
For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania. |
1991 |
Feature Photography |
William Snyder |
|
|
St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others. |
1991 |
Feature Writing |
Sheryl James |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Rabbit At Rest |
|
1991 |
Fiction |
John Updike |
|
Belknap/Harvard University Press |
The Ants |
|
1991 |
General Nonfiction |
Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
A Midwife's Tale |
|
1991 |
History |
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his coverage of the reunification of Germany. |
1991 |
International Reporting |
Serge Schmemann |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities. |
1991 |
International Reporting |
Caryle Murphy |
|
|
The Indianapolis Star |
For their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state. |
1991 |
Investigative Reporting |
Joseph T. Hallinan and Susan M. Headden |
|
|
Symphony |
Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990. |
1991 |
Music |
Shulamit Ran |
|
|
Gannett News Service |
For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners. |
1991 |
National Reporting |
Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Near Changes |
|
1991 |
Poetry |
Mona Van Duyn |
|
|
Des Moines Register |
For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped --which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims. |
1991 |
Public Service |
Des Moines Register |
|
|
Associated Press |
For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy. |
1991 |
Spot News Photography |
Greg Marinovich |
|
|
The Miami Herald |
For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders. |
1991 |
Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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For "Maus". |
1992 |
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Art Spiegelman |
|
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The Sacramento (CA) Bee |
For her series, "The Monkey Wars," which explored the complex ethical and moral questions surrounding primate research. |
1992 |
Beat Reporting |
Deborah Blum |
|
|
Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet |
|
1992 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Lewis B. Puller |
|
|
The New York Times |
For her compelling columns on a wide range of personal and political topics. |
1992 |
Commentary |
Anna Quindlen |
|
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The Kentucky Cycle |
|
1992 |
Drama |
Robert Schenkkan |
|
|
The Philadelphia Daily News |
|
1992 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Signe Wilkinson |
|
|
Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader |
For her editorials about battered women in Kentucky, which focused statewide attention on the problem and prompted significant reforms. |
1992 |
Editorial Writing |
Maria Henson |
|
|
Hartford (CT) Courant |
For a series about the flawed Hubble Space Telescope that illustrated many of the problems plaguing America's space program. |
1992 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Robert S. Capers and Eric Lipton |
|
|
Block Newspapers |
For his photographs depicting the diverse lifestyles of seven 21-year-olds across the United States. |
1992 |
Feature Photography |
John Kaplan |
|
|
The New York Times |
For "Grady's Gift," an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship. |
1992 |
Feature Writing |
Howell Raines |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
A Thousand Acres |
|
1992 |
Fiction |
Jane Smiley |
|
Simon & Schuster |
The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power |
|
1992 |
General Nonfiction |
Daniel Yergin |
|
|
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties |
|
1992 |
History |
Mark E. Neely |
|
|
Newsday |
For his reporting on the Persian Gulf War, conducted after the war was over, which revealed new details of American battlefield tactics and "friendly fire" incidents. |
1992 |
International Reporting |
Patrick J. Sloyan |
|
|
Dallas Morning News |
For reporting that charged Texas police with extensive misconduct and abuses of power. |
1992 |
Investigative Reporting |
Lorraine Adams and Dan Malone |
|
|
The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark |
Premiered on October 17, 1991, by the San Francisco Symphony. |
1992 |
Music |
Wayne Peterson |
|
|
Kansas City Star |
For their critical examination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
1992 |
National Reporting |
Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw |
|
Wesleyan University Press |
Selected Poems |
|
1992 |
Poetry |
James Tate |
|
|
The Sacramento (CA) Bee |
For "The Sierra in Peril," reporting by Tom Knudson that examined environmental threats and damage to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. |
1992 |
Public Service |
The Sacramento (CA) Bee |
|
|
Associated Press |
For photographs of the attempted coup in Russia and the subsequent collapse of the Communist regime. |
1992 |
Spot News Photography |
Staff |
|
|
Newsday |
For coverage of a midnight subway derailment in Manhattan that left five passengers dead and more than 200 injured. |
1992 |
Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
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No award |
1992 |
Criticism |
No award |
|
|
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For Maus. |
1992 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Art Spiegelman |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For often exclusive coverage of General Motors' management turmoil. |
1993 |
Beat Reporting |
Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White |
|
Simon & Schuster |
Truman |
|
1993 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David McCullough |
|
|
The Miami Herald |
For her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami. |
1993 |
Commentary |
Liz Balmaseda |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his book reviews. |
1993 |
Criticism |
Michael Dirda |
|
|
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches |
|
1993 |
Drama |
Tony Kushner |
|
|
The Arizona Republic |
|
1993 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Stephen R. Benson |
|
|
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
For "When Bugs Fight Back," a series that explored the diminishing effectiveness of antibiotics and pesticides. |
1993 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Mike Toner |
|
|
Associated Press |
For its portfolio of images drawn from the 1992 presidential campaign. |
1993 |
Feature Photography |
Staff |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system. |
1993 |
Feature Writing |
George Lardner Jr. |
|
Henry Holt |
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain |
|
1993 |
Fiction |
Robert Olen Butler |
|
Simon & Schuster |
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America |
|
1993 |
General Nonfiction |
Garry Wills |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution |
|
1993 |
History |
Gordon S. Wood |
|
|
Newsday |
For his courageous and persistent reporting that disclosed atrocities and other human rights violations in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
1993 |
International Reporting |
Roy Gutman |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his courageous and thorough coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
1993 |
International Reporting |
John F. Burns |
|
|
Orlando (FL) Sentinel |
For exposing the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from motorists --most of them minorities-- by a sheriff's drug squad. |
1993 |
Investigative Reporting |
Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry |
|
|
Trombone Concerto |
Premiered December 30, 1992, in New York by the New York Philharmonic. |
1993 |
Music |
Christopher Rouse |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his revealing articles on the life and political record of candidate Bill Clinton. |
1993 |
National Reporting |
David Maraniss |
|
The Ecco Press |
The Wild Iris |
|
1993 |
Poetry |
Louise Gluck |
|
|
The Miami Herald |
For coverage that not only helped readers cope with Hurricane Andrew's devastation but also showed how lax zoning, inspection and building codes had contributed to the destruction. |
1993 |
Public Service |
The Miami Herald |
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The Dallas Morning News |
For their dramatic photographs of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. |
1993 |
Spot News Photography |
Ken Geiger and William Snyder |
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Los Angeles Times |
For balanced, comprehensive, penetrating coverage under deadline pressure of the second, most destructive day of the Los Angeles riots. |
1993 |
Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
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The Detroit News |
For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency. |
1994 |
Beat Reporting |
Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld |
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Henry Holt |
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 |
|
1994 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David Levering Lewis |
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The Washington Post |
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics. |
1994 |
Commentary |
William Raspberry |
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The Boston Phoenix |
For his skillful and resonant classical music criticism. |
1994 |
Criticism |
Lloyd Schwartz |
|
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Three Tall Women |
|
1994 |
Drama |
Edward Albee |
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Commercial Appeal |
For his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues. |
1994 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Michael P. Ramirez |
|
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Chicago Tribune |
For his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system. |
1994 |
Editorial Writing |
R. Bruce Dold |
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Chicago Tribune |
For his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science. |
1994 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Ronald Kotulak |
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For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby. |
1994 |
Feature Photography |
Kevin Carter |
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The New York Times |
For her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993. |
1994 |
Feature Writing |
Isabel Wilkerson |
|
Charles Scribner's Sons |
The Shipping News |
|
1994 |
Fiction |
E. Annie Proulx |
|
Random House |
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire |
|
1994 |
General Nonfiction |
David Remnick |
|
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The Dallas Morning News |
For its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations. |
1994 |
International Reporting |
Dallas Morning News Team |
|
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Providence Journal-Bulletin |
For thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the Rhode Island court system. |
1994 |
Investigative Reporting |
Staff |
|
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Of Reminiscences and Reflections |
Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Ky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra. |
1994 |
Music |
Gunther Schuller |
|
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Albuquerque Tribune |
For stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago. |
1994 |
National Reporting |
Eileen Welsome |
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Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England |
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems |
|
1994 |
Poetry |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
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Akron Beacon Journal |
For its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community. |
1994 |
Public Service |
Akron Beacon Journal |
|
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The Toronto Star |
For his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis. |
1994 |
Spot News Photography |
Paul Watson |
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The New York Times |
For its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center. |
1994 |
Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The Boston Globe |
For his analytical reporting on Washington developments and the national scene. |
1995 |
Beat Reporting |
David Shribman |
|
Oxford University Press |
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life |
|
1995 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Joan D. Hedrick |
|
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Newsday |
For his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City. |
1995 |
Commentary |
Jim Dwyer |
|
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The New York Times |
For her book reviews and other cultural criticism. |
1995 |
Criticism |
Margo Jefferson |
|
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The Young Man From Atlanta |
|
1995 |
Drama |
Horton Foote |
|
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The Atlanta Constitution |
|
1995 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Mike Luckovich |
|
|
The St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
For his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates. |
1995 |
Editorial Writing |
Jeffrey Good |
|
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The Washington Post |
For their profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with destructive cycles of poverty, illiteracy, crime and drug abuse. |
1995 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Leon Dash and Lucian Perkins |
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Associated Press |
For its portfolio of photographs chronicling the horror and devastation in Rwanda. |
1995 |
Feature Photography |
Staff |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper. |
1995 |
Feature Writing |
Ron Suskind |
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Viking |
The Stone Diaries |
|
1995 |
Fiction |
Carol Shields |
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Alfred A. Knopf |
The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time |
|
1995 |
General Nonfiction |
Jonathan Weiner |
|
Simon & Schuster |
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II |
|
1995 |
History |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
|
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Associated Press |
For his reporting on the ethnic violence and slaughter in Rwanda. |
1995 |
International Reporting |
Mark Fritz |
|
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Newsday |
For their stories that revealed disability pension abuses by local police. |
1995 |
Investigative Reporting |
Brian Donovan and Stephanie Saul |
|
|
Stringmusic |
Premiered on March 10, 1994, by the National Symphony Orchestra at The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.. |
1995 |
Music |
Morton Gould |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For stories about working conditions in low-wage America. |
1995 |
National Reporting |
Tony Horwitz |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Simple Truth |
|
1995 |
Poetry |
Philip Levine |
|
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The Virgin Islands Daily News |
For its disclosure of the links between the region's rampant crime rate and corruption in the local criminal justice system. The reporting, largely the work of Melvin Claxton, initiated political reforms. |
1995 |
Public Service |
The Virgin Islands Daily News |
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The Washington Post |
For her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath. |
1995 |
Spot News Photography |
Carol Guzy |
|
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Los Angeles Times |
For its reporting on January 17, 1994, of the chaos and devastation in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake. |
1995 |
Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
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The San Francisco Chronicle |
For his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city. |
1996 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Herb Caen |
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Newsday |
For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners. |
1996 |
Beat Reporting |
Bob Keeler |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
God: A Biography |
|
1996 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Jack Miles |
|
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New York Daily News |
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues. |
1996 |
Commentary |
E.R. Shipp |
|
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The Boston Globe |
For his knowledgeable writing on architecture. |
1996 |
Criticism |
Robert Campbell |
|
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Rent |
|
1996 |
Drama |
Jonathan Larson |
|
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The Miami Herald |
|
1996 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Jim Morin |
|
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The New York Times |
For his editorials on environmental issues. |
1996 |
Editorial Writing |
Robert B. Semple |
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Newsday |
For her courageous reporting from Zaire on the Ebola virus outbreak there. (The winner was entered and nominated in the International Reporting category and was moved by the Pulitzer Prize Board to Explanatory Journalism.) |
1996 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Laurie Garrett |
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For her shocking sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a female circumcision rite in Kenya. |
1996 |
Feature Photography |
Stephanie Welsh |
|
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The New York Times |
For his elegantly written stories about contemporary America. |
1996 |
Feature Writing |
Rick Bragg |
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Alfred A. Knopf |
Independence Day |
|
1996 |
Fiction |
Richard Ford |
|
Random House |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism |
|
1996 |
General Nonfiction |
Tina Rosenberg |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic |
|
1996 |
History |
Alan Taylor |
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The Christian Science Monitor |
For his persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. |
1996 |
International Reporting |
David Rohde |
|
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The Orange County Register |
For reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms. |
1996 |
Investigative Reporting |
Staff |
|
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Lilacs, for voice and orchestra |
Premiered on February 1, 1996, in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was commissioned by that orchestra. |
1996 |
Music |
George Walker |
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The Wall Street Journal |
For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency. |
1996 |
National Reporting |
Alix M. Freedman |
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The Ecco Press |
The Dream of the Unified Field |
|
1996 |
Poetry |
Jorie Graham |
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on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's growing hog industry. |
1996 |
Public Service |
The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), for the work of Melanie Sill, Pat Stith and Joby Warrick |
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For his haunting photographs, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing and distributed by the Associated Press, showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a local fireman. |
1996 |
Spot News Photography |
Charles Porter IV |
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The New York Times |
For his highly skilled writing and reporting on deadline during the year. |
1996 |
Spot News Reporting |
Robert D. McFadden |
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The Seattle Times |
For his coverage of the aerospace industry, notably an exhaustive investigation of rudder control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA requirements for major improvements. |
1997 |
Beat Reporting |
Byron Acohido |
|
Scribner |
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir |
|
1997 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Frank McCourt |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues. |
1997 |
Commentary |
Eileen McNamara |
|
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The Washington Post |
For his lucid and illuminating music criticism. |
1997 |
Criticism |
Tim Page |
|
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Times-Picayune |
|
1997 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Walt Handelsman |
|
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The Daily Tribune |
For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community. |
1997 |
Editorial Writing |
Michael Gartner |
|
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For a series on the choices that confronted critically-ill patients who sought to die with dignity. |
1997 |
Explanatory Journalism |
Michael Vitez, April Saul and Ron Cortes |
|
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Associated Press |
For his photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election. (Moved by the Board from the Spot News Photography category.) |
1997 |
Feature Photography |
Alexander Zemlianichenko |
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The Baltimore Sun |
For her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease. |
1997 |
Feature Writing |
Lisa Pollak |
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Crown |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer |
|
1997 |
Fiction |
Steven Millhauser |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris |
|
1997 |
General Nonfiction |
Richard Kluger |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution |
|
1997 |
History |
Jack N. Rakove |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban. |
1997 |
International Reporting |
John F. Burns |
|
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The Seattle Times |
For their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms. |
1997 |
Investigative Reporting |
Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson and Alex Tizon |
|
|
Blood on the Fields |
Premiered on January 28, 1997 at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. |
1997 |
Music |
Wynton Marsalis |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease. |
1997 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
|
Louisiana State University Press |
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems |
|
1997 |
Poetry |
Lisel Mueller |
|
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The Times-Picayune |
For its comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish. |
1997 |
Public Service |
The Times-Picayune |
|
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The Press Democrat |
For her dramatic photograph of a local firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters. |
1997 |
Spot News Photography |
Annie Wells |
|
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Newsday |
For its enterprising coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and its aftermath. |
1997 |
Spot News Reporting |
Staff |
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No award. |
1997 |
Drama |
No award |
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Awarded posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music. |
1998 |
Special Awards and Citations |
George Gershwin |
|
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The New York Times |
For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court. |
1998 |
Beat Reporting |
Linda Greenhouse |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Personal History |
|
1998 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Katharine Graham |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood. |
1998 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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New York Daily News |
For his coverage of the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse. |
1998 |
Commentary |
Mike McAlary |
|
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The New York Times |
For her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature. |
1998 |
Criticism |
Michiko Kakutani |
|
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How I Learned to Drive |
|
1998 |
Drama |
Paula Vogel |
|
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Asbury Park Press |
|
1998 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Stephen P. Breen |
|
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The Riverdale (NY) Press |
For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents. |
1998 |
Editorial Writing |
Bernard L. Stein |
|
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Chicago Tribune |
For his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people. |
1998 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Paul F. Salopek |
|
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Los Angeles Times |
For his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs. |
1998 |
Feature Photography |
Clarence Williams |
|
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St. Petersburg Times |
For his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders. |
1998 |
Feature Writing |
Thomas French |
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Houghton Mifflin |
American Pastoral |
|
1998 |
Fiction |
Philip Roth |
|
W.W. Norton |
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
|
1998 |
General Nonfiction |
Jared Diamond |
|
BasicBooks |
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion |
|
1998 |
History |
Edward J. Larson |
|
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The New York Times |
For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. |
1998 |
International Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The Baltimore Sun |
For their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled. |
1998 |
Investigative Reporting |
Gary Cohn and Will Englund |
|
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String Quartet #2 (musica instrumentalis) |
Premiered on January 10, 1998, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet. |
1998 |
Music |
Aaron Jay Kernis |
|
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Dayton Daily News |
For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms. |
1998 |
National Reporting |
Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith |
|
Farrar |
Black Zodiac |
|
1998 |
Poetry |
Charles Wright |
|
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Grand Forks (ND) Herald |
For its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself. |
1998 |
Public Service |
Grand Forks (ND) Herald |
|
|
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
For her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi. |
1998 |
Spot News Photography |
Martha Rial |
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Bestowed posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture. |
1999 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Duke Ellington |
|
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Los Angeles Times |
For their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, including a charity sham sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, illegal detoxification programs for wealthy celebrities, and a resurgence of radio payola. |
1999 |
Beat Reporting |
Chuck Philips and Michael A. Hiltzik |
|
G.P. Putnam's Sons |
Lindbergh |
|
1999 |
Biography or Autobiography |
A. Scott Berg |
|
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Hartford (CT) Courant |
For its clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself. |
1999 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The New York Times |
For her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. |
1999 |
Commentary |
Maureen Dowd |
|
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Chicago Tribune |
For his lucid coverage of city architecture, including an influential series supporting the development of Chicago's lakefront area. |
1999 |
Criticism |
Blair Kamin |
|
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Wit |
|
1999 |
Drama |
Margaret Edson |
|
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
1999 |
Editorial Cartooning |
David Horsey |
|
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Daily News |
For its effective campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theatre from the financial mismanagement that threatened the landmark's survival. |
1999 |
Editorial Writing |
New York Daily News Editorial Board |
|
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The Oregonian |
For vividly illustrating the domestic impact of the Asian economic crisis by profiling the local industry that exports frozen french fries. |
1999 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Richard Read |
|
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Associated Press |
For its striking collection of photographs of the key players and events stemming from President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and the ensuing impeachment hearings. |
1999 |
Feature Photography |
Photo Staff |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime. |
1999 |
Feature Writing |
Angelo B. Henderson |
|
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
The Hours |
|
1999 |
Fiction |
Michael Cunningham |
|
Farrar |
Annals of the Former World |
|
1999 |
General Nonfiction |
John McPhee |
|
Oxford University Press |
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 |
|
1999 |
History |
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For its in-depth, analytical coverage of the Russian financial crisis. |
1999 |
International Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The Miami Herald |
For its detailed reporting that revealed pervasive voter fraud in a city mayoral election, that was subsequently overturned. |
1999 |
Investigative Reporting |
Staff |
|
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Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion |
Premiered on May 30, 1998 by the Westchester Philharmonic in Purchase, New York, and commissioned by that orchestra for Paul Lustig Dunkel. |
1999 |
Music |
Melinda Wagner |
|
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The New York Times |
For a series of articles that disclosed the corporate sale of American technology to China, with U.S. government approval despite national security risks, prompting investigations and significant changes in policy. |
1999 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Blizzard of One |
|
1999 |
Poetry |
Mark Strand |
|
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The Washington Post |
For its series that identified and analyzed patterns of reckless gunplay by city police officers who had little training or supervision. |
1999 |
Public Service |
The Washington Post |
|
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Associated Press |
For its portfolio of images following the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that illustrates both the horror and the humanity triggered by the event. |
1999 |
Spot News Photography |
Photo Staff |
|
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St. Paul Pioneer Press |
For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota. |
2000 |
Beat Reporting |
George Dohrmann |
|
Random House |
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
|
2000 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Stacy Schiff |
|
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Rocky Mountain News |
For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School. |
2000 |
Breaking News Photography |
Photo Staff |
|
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The Denver Post |
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School. |
2000 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government. |
2000 |
Commentary |
Paul A. Gigot |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his fresh and authoritative writing on photography. |
2000 |
Criticism |
Henry Allen |
|
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Dinner With Friends |
|
2000 |
Drama |
Donald Margulies |
|
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Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader |
|
2000 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Joel Pett |
|
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The Orlando Sentinel |
For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations. |
2000 |
Editorial Writing |
John C. Bersia |
|
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Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune |
For his vivid examination of alcohol abuse and the problems it creates in the community. |
2000 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Eric Newhouse |
|
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The Washington Post |
For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees. |
2000 |
Feature Photography |
Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson and Lucian Perkins |
|
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Los Angeles Times |
For his portrait of Gee’s Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it. |
2000 |
Feature Writing |
J.R. Moehringer |
|
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin |
Interpreter of Maladies |
|
2000 |
Fiction |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
|
W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
|
2000 |
General Nonfiction |
John W. Dower |
|
Oxford University Press |
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
|
2000 |
History |
David M. Kennedy |
|
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The Village Voice |
For his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa. |
2000 |
International Reporting |
Mark Schoofs |
|
|
Associated Press |
For revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge. |
2000 |
Investigative Reporting |
Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza |
|
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Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version |
Premiered on January 28, 2000 by Dinosaur Annex in Amherst, MA. Libretto by James Maraniss. |
2000 |
Music |
Lewis Spratlan |
|
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The Wall Street Journal |
For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future. |
2000 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
|
Farrar |
Repair |
|
2000 |
Poetry |
C.K. Williams |
|
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that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city's group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms. |
2000 |
Public Service |
The Washington Post, notably for the work of Katherine Boo |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms. |
2001 |
Beat Reporting |
David Cay Johnston |
|
Henry Holt and Company |
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 |
|
2001 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David Levering Lewis |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home. |
2001 |
Breaking News Photography |
Alan Diaz |
|
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The Miami Herald |
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father. |
2001 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For her articles on American society and culture. |
2001 |
Commentary |
Dorothy Rabinowitz |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For her insightful observations on contemporary life and literature. |
2001 |
Criticism |
Gail Caldwell |
|
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Proof |
|
2001 |
Drama |
David Auburn |
|
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Tribune Media Services |
|
2001 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Ann Telnaes |
|
|
Rutland (VT) Herald |
For his even-handed and influential series of editorials commenting on the divisive issues arising from civil unions for same-sex couples. |
2001 |
Editorial Writing |
David Moats |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For "Gateway to Gridlock," its clear and compelling profile of the chaotic American air traffic system. |
2001 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Staff |
|
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The Star-Ledger |
For his emotional photographs that illustrate the care and recovery of two students critically burned in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University. |
2001 |
Feature Photography |
Matt Rainey |
|
|
The Oregonian |
For his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance. |
2001 |
Feature Writing |
Tom Hallman Jr. |
|
Random House |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
|
2001 |
Fiction |
Michael Chabon |
|
HarperCollins |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
|
2001 |
General Nonfiction |
Herbert P. Bix |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation |
|
2001 |
History |
Joseph J. Ellis |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For his revealing stories from China about victims of the government's often brutal suppression of the Falun Gong movement and the implications of that campaign for the future. |
2001 |
International Reporting |
Ian Johnson |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For his reporting on the political strife and disease epidemics ravaging Africa, witnessed firsthand as he traveled, sometimes by canoe, through rebel-controlled regions of the Congo. |
2001 |
International Reporting |
Paul Salopek |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his pioneering exposé of seven unsafe prescription drugs that had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency's effectiveness. |
2001 |
Investigative Reporting |
David Willman |
|
G. Schirmer |
Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra |
Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 30, 2000 at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA. |
2001 |
Music |
John Corigliano |
|
|
The New York Times |
For its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America. |
2001 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
|
W.W. Norton & Company |
Different Hours |
|
2001 |
Poetry |
Stephen Dunn |
|
|
The Oregonian |
For its detailed and unflinching examination of systematic problems within the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, including harsh treatment of foreign nationals and other widespread abuses, which prompted various reforms. |
2001 |
Public Service |
The Oregonian |
|
|
The New York Times |
For her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage. |
2002 |
Beat Reporting |
Gretchen Morgenson |
|
Simon & Schuster |
John Adams |
|
2002 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David McCullough |
|
|
The New York Times |
For its consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath. |
2002 |
Breaking News Photography |
Staff |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future. |
2002 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. |
2002 |
Commentary |
Thomas Friedman |
|
|
Newsday |
For his crisp coverage of classical music that captures its essence. |
2002 |
Criticism |
Justin Davidson |
|
|
Topdog/Underdog |
|
2002 |
Drama |
Suzan-Lori Parks |
|
|
The Christian Science Monitor |
|
2002 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Clay Bennett |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets. |
2002 |
Editorial Writing |
Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen |
|
|
The New York Times |
For its informed and detailed reporting, before and after the September 11th attacks on America, that profiled the global terrorism network and the threats it posed. |
2002 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The New York Times |
For its photographs chronicling the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
2002 |
Feature Photography |
Staff |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case. |
2002 |
Feature Writing |
Barry Siegel |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Empire Falls |
|
2002 |
Fiction |
Richard Russo |
|
Simon & Schuster |
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution |
|
2002 |
General Nonfiction |
Diane McWhorter |
|
Farrar |
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America |
|
2002 |
History |
Louis Menand |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his deeply affecting and illuminating coverage of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan. |
2002 |
International Reporting |
Barry Bearak |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For a series that exposed the District of Columbia's role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the city's child welfare system. |
2002 |
Investigative Reporting |
Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Sarah Cohen |
|
|
Ice Field |
Premiered on December 12, 2001 at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California. |
2002 |
Music |
Henry Brant |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For its comprehensive coverage of America's war on terrorism, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments. |
2002 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
|
Penguin Books |
Practical Gods |
|
2002 |
Poetry |
Carl Dennis |
|
|
The New York Times |
For "A Nation Challenged," a special section published regularly after the September 11th terrorist attacks on America, which coherently and comprehensively covered the tragic events, profiled the victims, and tracked the developing story, locally and globally. |
2002 |
Public Service |
The New York Times |
|
|
The Baltimore Sun |
For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people. |
2003 |
Beat Reporting |
Diana K. Sugg |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Master of the Senate |
|
2003 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Robert A. Caro |
|
|
Rocky Mountain News |
For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires. |
2003 |
Breaking News Photography |
Photography Staff |
|
|
The Eagle-Tribune |
For its detailed, well-crafted stories on the accidental drowning of four boys in the Merrimack River. |
2003 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom. |
2003 |
Commentary |
Colbert I. King |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his authoritative film criticism that is both intellectually rewarding and a pleasure to read. |
2003 |
Criticism |
Stephen Hunter |
|
|
Anna in the Tropics |
|
2003 |
Drama |
Nilo Cruz |
|
|
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
For his perceptive cartoons executed with a distinctive style and sense of humor. |
2003 |
Editorial Cartooning |
David Horsey |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For her powerful, freshly challenging editorials on reform of the death penalty. |
2003 |
Editorial Writing |
Cornelia Grumman |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For its clear, concise and comprehensive stories that illuminated the roots, significance and impact of corporate scandals in America. (Moved by the jury from the Public Service category.) |
2003 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States. |
2003 |
Feature Photography |
Don Bartletti |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States. |
2003 |
Feature Writing |
Sonia Nazario |
|
Farrar |
Middlesex |
|
2003 |
Fiction |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
|
Basic Books |
"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide |
|
2003 |
General Nonfiction |
Samantha Power |
|
Henry Holt and Company |
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 |
|
2003 |
History |
Rick Atkinson |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For their exposure of horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people. |
2003 |
International Reporting |
Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his vivid, brilliantly written series "Broken Homes" that exposed the abuse of mentally ill adults in state-regulated homes. |
2003 |
Investigative Reporting |
Clifford J. Levy |
|
Boosey & Hawkes |
On the Transmigration of Souls |
Premiered by the New York Philharmonic on September 19, 2002 at Avery Fisher Hall. |
2003 |
Music |
John Adams |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed "The Widow Maker," that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category to the National Reporting category, where it was also entered.) |
2003 |
National Reporting |
Alan Miller and Kevin Sack |
|
Farrar |
Moy Sand and Gravel |
|
2003 |
Poetry |
Paul Muldoon |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For its courageous, comprehensive coverage of sexual abuse by priests, an effort that pierced secrecy, stirred local, national and international reaction and produced changes in the Roman Catholic Church. |
2003 |
Public Service |
The Boston Globe |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities. |
2004 |
Beat Reporting |
Daniel Golden |
|
W.W. Norton |
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
|
2004 |
Biography or Autobiography |
William Taubman |
|
|
The Dallas Morning News |
For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq. |
2004 |
Breaking News Photography |
David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California. |
2004 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The Miami Herald |
For his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues. |
2004 |
Commentary |
Leonard Pitts Jr. |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his one-of-a-kind reviews of automobiles, blending technical expertise with offbeat humor and astute cultural observations. |
2004 |
Criticism |
Dan Neil |
|
|
I Am My Own Wife |
|
2004 |
Drama |
Doug Wright |
|
|
The Journal News |
For his piercing cartoons on an array of topics, drawn with a fresh, original style. |
2004 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Matt Davies |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues. |
2004 |
Editorial Writing |
William R. Stall |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For their groundbreaking examination of aneurysms, an often overlooked medical condition that kills thousands of Americans each year. |
2004 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Kevin Helliker and Thomas M. Burton |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For her cohesive, behind-the-scenes look at the effects of civil war in Liberia, with special attention to innocent citizens caught in the conflict. |
2004 |
Feature Photography |
Carolyn Cole |
|
Amistad/ HarperCollins |
The Known World |
|
2004 |
Fiction |
Edward P. Jones |
|
Doubleday |
Gulag: A History |
|
2004 |
General Nonfiction |
Anne Applebaum |
|
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration |
|
2004 |
History |
Steven Hahn |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended. |
2004 |
International Reporting |
Anthony Shadid |
|
|
The Blade |
For their powerful series on atrocities by Tiger Force, an elite U.S. Army platoon, during the Vietnam War. |
2004 |
Investigative Reporting |
Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr |
|
|
Tempest Fantasy |
Premiered by the Trio Solisti and clarinet soloist David Krakauer on May 2, 2003 at the Morgan Library, New York City. |
2004 |
Music |
Paul Moravec |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries. |
2004 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
Walking to Martha's Vineyard |
|
2004 |
Poetry |
Franz Wright |
|
|
|
that relentlessly examined death and injury among American workers and exposed employers who break basic safety rules. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category, where it was also entered.) |
2004 |
Public Service |
The New York Times, for the work of David Barstow and Lowell Bergman |
|
|
|
No award |
2004 |
Feature Writing |
No award |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For her masterful stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors. |
2005 |
Beat Reporting |
Amy Dockser Marcus |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
de Kooning: An American Master |
|
2005 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan |
|
|
Associated Press |
For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities. |
2005 |
Breaking News Photography |
Staff |
|
|
The Star-Ledger |
For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover. |
2005 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The Plain Dealer |
For her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged. |
2005 |
Commentary |
Connie Schultz |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For his reviews that elucidated the strengths and weaknesses of film with rare insight, authority and wit. |
2005 |
Criticism |
Joe Morgenstern |
|
|
Doubt, a parable |
|
2005 |
Drama |
John Patrick Shanley |
|
|
The Courier-Journal |
For his unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages. |
2005 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Nick Anderson |
|
|
The Sacramento Bee |
For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California's flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action. |
2005 |
Editorial Writing |
Tom Philp |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For explaining, with clarity and humanity, the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research. |
2005 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Gareth Cook |
|
|
San Francisco Chronicle |
For her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion. |
2005 |
Feature Photography |
Deanne Fitzmaurice |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Illinois. |
2005 |
Feature Writing |
Julia Keller |
|
Farrar |
Gilead |
|
2005 |
Fiction |
Marilynne Robinson |
|
The Penguin Press |
Ghost Wars |
|
2005 |
General Nonfiction |
Steve Coll |
|
Oxford University Press |
Washington's Crossing |
|
2005 |
History |
David Hackett Fischer |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work. |
2005 |
International Reporting |
Kim Murphy |
|
|
Newsday |
For his fresh, haunting look at Rwanda a decade after rape and genocidal slaughter had ravaged the Tutsi tribe. |
2005 |
International Reporting |
Dele Olojede |
|
|
Willamette Week |
For his investigation exposing a former governor's long concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl. |
2005 |
Investigative Reporting |
Nigel Jaquiss |
|
Theodore Presser Company |
Second Concerto for Orchestra |
Premiered March 12, 2004 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. (Theodore Presser Company) |
2005 |
Music |
Steven Stucky |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings. |
2005 |
National Reporting |
Walt Bogdanich |
|
Copper Canyon Press |
Delights & Shadows |
|
2005 |
Poetry |
Ted Kooser |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital. |
2005 |
Public Service |
Los Angeles Times |
|
|
The Times-Picayune |
For its heroic, multi-faceted coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, making exceptional use of the newspaper's resources to serve an inundated city even after evacuation of the newspaper plant. (Selected by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was entered.) |
2006 |
Public Service |
The Times-Picayune |
|
|
Sun Herald |
For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need. |
2006 |
Public Service |
Sun Herald |
|
Viking |
March |
|
2006 |
Fiction |
Geraldine Brooks |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts. |
2006 |
Investigative Reporting |
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith |
|
|
|
For a creative and deeply influential body of work as an American historian that spans the last half century. |
2006 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Edmund S. Morgan |
|
|
|
A posthumous Special Citation to the American composer for a body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz. |
2006 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Thelonious Monk |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For her persistent, painstaking reports on secret "black site" prisons and other controversial features of the government's counterterrorism campaign. |
2006 |
Beat Reporting |
Dana Priest |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
|
2006 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin |
|
|
The Dallas Morning News |
For its vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans. |
2006 |
Breaking News Photography |
Staff |
|
|
The Times-Picayune |
For its courageous and aggressive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, overcoming desperate conditions facing the city and the newspaper. |
2006 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The New York Times |
For his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world. |
2006 |
Commentary |
Nicholas D. Kristof |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For her witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism. |
2006 |
Criticism |
Robin Givhan |
|
|
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
For his powerful cartoons on an array of issues, drawn with a simple but piercing style. |
2006 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Mike Luckovich |
|
|
The Oregonian |
For their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital. |
2006 |
Editorial Writing |
Rick Attig and Doug Bates |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For his ambitious, clear-eyed case study of the United States government's attempt to bring democracy to Yemen. |
2006 |
Explanatory Reporting |
David Finkel |
|
|
Rocky Mountain News |
For his haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets. |
2006 |
Feature Photography |
Todd Heisler |
|
|
Rocky Mountain News |
For his poignant story on a Marine major who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice. |
2006 |
Feature Writing |
Jim Sheeler |
|
Henry Holt |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya |
|
2006 |
General Nonfiction |
Caroline Elkins |
|
Oxford University Press |
Polio: An American Story |
|
2006 |
History |
David M. Oshinsky |
|
|
The New York Times |
For their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation's legal system evolves. |
2006 |
International Reporting |
Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley |
|
Associated Music Publishers |
Piano Concerto: 'Chiavi in Mano' |
Premiered February 17, 2005 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (Associated Music Publishers, Inc.) |
2006 |
Music |
Yehudi Wyner |
|
|
The New York Times |
For their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty. |
2006 |
National Reporting |
James Risen and Eric Lichtblau |
|
|
The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service |
For their disclosure of bribe-taking that sent former Rep. Randy Cunningham to prison in disgrace. |
2006 |
National Reporting |
Staffs |
|
Louisiana State University Press |
Late Wife |
|
2006 |
Poetry |
Claudia Emerson |
|
|
|
No award. |
2006 |
Drama |
No Award |
|
|
|
For a creative and deeply influential body of work as an American historian that spans the last half century. |
2006 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Edmund S. Morgan |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For its creative and comprehensive probe into backdated stock options for business executives that triggered investigations, the ouster of top officials and widespread change in corporate America. |
2007 |
Public Service |
The Wall Street Journal |
|
|
The Oregonian |
For its skillful and tenacious coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains, telling the tragic story both in print and online. |
2007 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
Los Angeles Times |
For their richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials. |
2007 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, and Rick Loomis |
|
|
The Sacramento Bee |
For her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer. |
2007 |
Feature Photography |
Renée C. Byer |
|
Doubleday |
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher |
|
2007 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Debby Applegate |
|
|
Associated Press |
For his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank. |
2007 |
Breaking News Photography |
Oded Balilty |
|
|
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
For her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community. |
2007 |
Commentary |
Cynthia Tucker |
|
|
LA Weekly |
For his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater. |
2007 |
Criticism |
Jonathan Gold |
|
|
Rabbit Hole |
|
2007 |
Drama |
David Lindsay-Abaire |
|
|
Newsday |
For his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation. |
2007 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Walt Handelsman |
|
|
New York Daily News |
For their compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation. |
2007 |
Editorial Writing |
Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans |
|
|
The New York Times |
For her intimate, richly textured portrait of an immigrant imam striving to find his way and serve his faithful in America. |
2007 |
Feature Writing |
Andrea Elliott |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Road |
|
2007 |
Fiction |
Cormac McCarthy |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 |
|
2007 |
General Nonfiction |
Lawrence Wright |
|
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation |
|
2007 |
History |
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff |
|
|
The Wall Street Journal |
For its sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution. |
2007 |
International Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The Birmingham (AL) News |
For his exposure of cronyism and corruption in the state's two-year college system, resulting in the dismissal of the chancellor and other corrective action. (Moved by the Board from the Public Service category.) |
2007 |
Investigative Reporting |
Brett Blackledge |
|
|
The Miami Herald |
For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions. |
2007 |
Local Reporting |
Debbie Cenziper |
|
|
Sound Grammar |
Recording released September 12, 2006. |
2007 |
Music |
Ornette Coleman |
|
|
The Boston Globe |
For his revelations that President Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws. |
2007 |
National Reporting |
Charlie Savage |
|
Houghton Mifflin |
Native Guard |
|
2007 |
Poetry |
Natasha Trethewey |
|
|
|
A posthumous special citation to the composer for his masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz. |
2007 |
Special Awards and Citations |
John Coltrane |
|
|
|
A special citation to Ray Bradbury for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy. |
2007 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
The Washington Post |
in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials. |
2008 |
Public Service |
Staff |
|
|
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures. |
2008 |
Local Reporting |
David Umhoefer |
|
|
"The Little Match Girl Passion" |
Co-commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation and The Perth Theater and Concert Hall, and premiered October 25, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City (G. Schirmer, Inc.). |
2008 |
Music |
David Lang |
|
|
The Washington Post |
For its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online. |
2008 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The New York Times |
For their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials. |
2008 |
Investigative Reporting |
Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker |
|
|
Chicago Tribune |
For its exposure of faulty governmental regulation of toys, car seats and cribs, resulting in the extensive recall of hazardous products and congressional action to tighten supervision. |
2008 |
Investigative Reporting |
Staff |
|
|
The New York Times |
For her striking examination of the dilemmas and ethical issues that accompany DNA testing, using human stories to sharpen her reports. |
2008 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Amy Harmon |
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The Washington Post |
For their lucid exploration of Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy. |
2008 |
National Reporting |
Jo Becker and Barton Gellman |
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The Washington Post |
For his heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces. |
2008 |
International Reporting |
Steve Fainaru |
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The Washington Post |
For his chronicling of a world-class violinist who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters. |
2008 |
Feature Writing |
Gene Weingarten |
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The Washington Post |
For his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity. |
2008 |
Commentary |
Steven Pearlstein |
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The Boston Globe |
For his penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting. |
2008 |
Criticism |
Mark Feeney |
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Investor's Business Daily |
For his provocative cartoons that rely on originality, humor and detailed artistry. |
2008 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Michael Ramirez |
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Reuters |
For his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar. |
2008 |
Breaking News Photography |
Adrees Latif |
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Concord (NH) Monitor |
For her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent's terminal illness. |
2008 |
Feature Photography |
Preston Gannaway |
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Riverhead Books |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
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2008 |
Fiction |
Junot Diaz |
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August: Osage County |
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2008 |
Drama |
Tracy Letts |
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Oxford University Press |
"What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" |
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2008 |
History |
Daniel Walker Howe |
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W.W. Norton |
"Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father" |
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2008 |
Biography or Autobiography |
John Matteson |
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Ecco/HarperCollins |
Time and Materials |
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2008 |
Poetry |
Robert Hass |
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Harcourt |
Failure |
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2008 |
Poetry |
Philip Schultz |
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HarperCollins |
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 |
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2008 |
General Nonfiction |
Saul Friedländer |
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For his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power. |
2008 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Bob Dylan |
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No award. |
2008 |
Editorial Writing |
No award |
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The Miami Herald |
For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti. |
2009 |
Breaking News Photography |
Patrick Farrell |
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Copper Canyon Press |
The Shadow of Sirius |
A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory. |
2009 |
Poetry |
W.S. Merwin |
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For the exposure of the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip amid lax enforcement of regulations, leading to changes in policy and improved safety conditions. |
2009 |
Public Service |
Las Vegas Sun, and notably the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon |
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The New York Times |
For its swift and sweeping coverage of a sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, breaking the story on its Web site and then developing it with authoritative, rapid-fire reports. |
2009 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
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The New York Times |
For his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended. |
2009 |
Investigative Reporting |
David Barstow |
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Los Angeles Times |
For their fresh and painstaking exploration into the cost and effectiveness of attempts to combat the growing menace of wildfires across the western United States. |
2009 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart |
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For their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials. |
2009 |
Local Reporting |
Detroit Free Press Staff, and notably Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick |
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St. Petersburg Times |
For "PolitiFact," its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category.) |
2009 |
National Reporting |
Staff |
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The New York Times |
For its masterful, groundbreaking coverage of America's deepening military and political challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, reporting frequently done under perilous condition |
2009 |
International Reporting |
Staff |
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St. Petersburg Times |
For her moving, richly detailed story of a neglected little girl, found in a roach-infested room, unable to talk or feed herself, who was adopted by a new family committed to her nurturing. |
2009 |
Feature Writing |
Lane DeGregory |
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The Washington Post |
For his eloquent columns on the 2008 presidential campaign that focus on the election of the first African-American president, showcasing graceful writing and grasp of the larger historic picture. |
2009 |
Commentary |
Eugene Robinson |
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The New York Times |
The New York Times |
For his wide ranging reviews of art, from Manhattan to China, marked by acute observation, luminous writing and dramatic storytelling. |
2009 |
Criticism |
Holland Cotter |
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The Post-Star |
For his relentless, down-to-earth editorials on the perils of local government secrecy, effectively admonishing citizens to uphold their right to know. |
2009 |
Editorial Writing |
Mark Mahoney |
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The San Diego Union-Tribune |
For his agile use of a classic style to produce wide ranging cartoons that engage readers with power, clarity and humor. |
2009 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Steve Breen |
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The New York Times |
For his memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. |
2009 |
Feature Photography |
Damon Winter |
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Random House |
Olive Kitteridge |
A collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine that packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating. |
2009 |
Fiction |
Elizabeth Strout |
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Ruined |
A searing drama set in chaotic Congo that compels audiences to face the horror of wartime rape and brutality while still finding affirmation of life and hope amid hopelessness. |
2009 |
Drama |
Lynn Nottage |
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W.W. Norton & Company |
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family |
A painstaking exploration of a sprawling multi-generation slave family that casts provocative new light on the relationship between Sally Hemings and her master, Thomas Jefferson. |
2009 |
History |
Annette Gordon-Reed |
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Random House |
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House |
An unflinching portrait of a not always admirable democrat but a pivotal president, written with an agile prose that brings the Jackson saga to life. |
2009 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Jon Meacham |
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Doubleday |
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II |
A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity. |
2009 |
General Nonfiction |
Douglas A. Blackmon |
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Boosey & Hawkes |
Double Sextet |
A major work that displays an ability to channel an initial burst of energy into a large-scale musical event, built with masterful control and consistently intriguing to the ear. |
2009 |
Music |
Steve Reich |
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East Valley Tribune |
For their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff's focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety. |
2009 |
Local Reporting |
Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin |
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Bellevue Literary Press |
Tinkers |
A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality. |
2010 |
Fiction |
Paul Harding |
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For his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life. |
2010 |
Special Awards and Citations |
Hank Williams |
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The Penguin Press |
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World |
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader. |
2010 |
History |
Liaquat Ahamed |
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Wesleyan University Press |
Versed |
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading. |
2010 |
Poetry |
Rae Armantrout |
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Alfred A. Knopf |
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
A penetrating portrait of a complex, self-made titan who revolutionized transportation, amassed vast wealth and shaped the economic world in ways still felt today. |
2010 |
Biography or Autobiography |
T.J. Stiles |
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Doubleday |
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy |
A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind. |
2010 |
General Nonfiction |
David E. Hoffman |
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Lawdon Press |
Violin Concerto |
Premiered on February 6, 2009, in Indianapolis, IN, a deeply engaging piece that combines flowing lyricism with dazzling virtuosity (Lawdon Press). |
2010 |
Music |
Jennifer Higdon |
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Bristol (VA) Herald Courier |
For the work of Daniel Gilbert in illuminating the murky mismanagement of natural-gas royalties owed to thousands of land owners in southwest Virginia, spurring remedial action by state lawmakers. |
2010 |
Public Service |
Bristol (VA) Herald Courier |
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
For her penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers. |
2010 |
Local Reporting |
Raquel Rutledge |
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The Seattle Times |
For its comprehensive coverage, in print and online, of the shooting deaths of four police officers in a coffee house and the 40-hour manhunt for the suspect. |
2010 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
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Philadelphia Daily News |
For their resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal. |
2010 |
Investigative Reporting |
Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman |
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ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine |
For a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. |
2010 |
Investigative Reporting |
Sheri Fink |
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The New York Times |
For relentless reporting on contaminated hamburger and other food safety issues that, in print and online, spotlighted defects in federal regulation and led to improved practices. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category.) |
2010 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Michael Moss and members of the Staff |
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The New York Times |
For incisive work, in print and online, on the hazardous use of cell phones, computers and other devices while operating cars and trucks, stimulating widespread efforts to curb distracted driving. |
2010 |
National Reporting |
Matt Richtel and members of the Staff |
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The Washington Post |
For his rich, beautifully written series on Iraq as the United States departs and its people and leaders struggle to deal with the legacy of war and to shape the nation's future. |
2010 |
International Reporting |
Anthony Shadid |
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The Washington Post |
For his haunting story about parents, from varying walks of life, who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars. |
2010 |
Feature Writing |
Gene Weingarten |
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The Washington Post |
For her perceptive, often witty columns on an array of political and moral issues, gracefully sharing the experiences and values that lead her to unpredictable conclusions. |
2010 |
Commentary |
Kathleen Parker |
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The Washington Post |
For her refreshingly imaginative approach to dance criticism, illuminating a range of issues and topics with provocative comments and original insights. |
2010 |
Criticism |
Sarah Kaufman |
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The Dallas Morning News |
For their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city's better-off northern half and distressed southern half. |
2010 |
Editorial Writing |
Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie |
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For his animated cartoons appearing on SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle Web site, where his biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary. |
2010 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Mark Fiore |
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The Des Moines Register |
For her photograph of the heart-stopping moment when a rescuer dangling in a makeshift harness tries to save a woman trapped in the foaming water beneath a dam. |
2010 |
Breaking News Photography |
Mary Chind |
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The Denver Post |
For his intimate portrait of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq, poignantly searching for meaning and manhood. |
2010 |
Feature Photography |
Craig F. Walker |
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Next to Normal |
A powerful rock musical that grapples with mental illness in a suburban family and expands the scope of subject matter for musicals. |
2010 |
Drama |
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey |
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Alfred A.. Knopf |
A Visit from the Goon Squad |
An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed. |
2011 |
Fiction |
Jennifer Egan |
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The Penguin Press |
Washington : A Life |
A sweeping, authoritative portrait of an iconic leader learning to master his private feelings in order to fulfill his public duties. |
2011 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Ron Chernow |
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The Denver Post |
For his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages. |
2011 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Mike Keefe |
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Grove/Atlantic |
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems |
A body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind. |
2011 |
Poetry |
Kay Ryan |
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W.W. Norton & Company |
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery |
For "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery," (W.W. Norton & Company), a well orchestrated examination of Lincoln's changing views of slavery, bringing unforeseeable twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story. |
2011 |
History |
Eric Foner |
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Clybourne Park |
For "Clybourne Park," a powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and perceptive ways to America's sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness. |
2011 |
Drama |
Bruce Norris |
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Scribner |
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer |
An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science. |
2011 |
General Nonfiction |
Siddhartha Mukherjee |
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Oxford University Press |
Madame White Snake |
Premiered on February 26, 2010 by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, a deeply expressive opera that draws on a Chinese folk tale to blend the musical traditions of the East and the West. Libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs (Oxford University Press). |
2011 |
Music |
Zhou Long |
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Los Angeles Times |
For its exposure of corruption in the small California city of Bell where officials tapped the treasury to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, resulting in arrests and reforms. |
2011 |
Public Service |
Los Angeles Times |
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No award |
2011 |
Breaking News Reporting |
No award |
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
For her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action. |
2011 |
Investigative Reporting |
Paige St. John |
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
For their lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images. |
2011 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood |
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Chicago Sun-Times |
For their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions. |
2011 |
Local Reporting |
Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim |
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ProPublica |
For their exposure of questionable practices on Wall Street that contributed to the nation's economic meltdown, using digital tools to help explain the complex subject to lay readers. |
2011 |
National Reporting |
Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein |
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The New York Times |
For their dogged reporting that put a human face on the faltering justice system in Russia, remarkably influencing the discussion inside the country. |
2011 |
International Reporting |
Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry |
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The Star-Ledger |
For her deeply probing story of the mysterious sinking of a commercial fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean that drowned six men. |
2011 |
Feature Writing |
Amy Ellis Nutt |
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The New York Times |
For his graceful penetration of America's complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform. |
2011 |
Commentary |
David Leonhardt |
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The Boston Globe |
For his vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation. |
2011 |
Criticism |
Sebastian Smee |
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama. |
2011 |
Editorial Writing |
Joseph Rago |
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The Washington Post |
For their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti. |
2011 |
Breaking News Photography |
Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti |
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Los Angeles Times |
For her intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city's crossfire of deadly gang violence. |
2011 |
Feature Photography |
Barbara Davidson |
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No award |
2012 |
Fiction |
No award |
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Viking |
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention |
An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic. |
2012 |
History |
Manning Marable |
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The Penguin Press |
George F. Kennan: An American Life |
An engaging portrait of a globetrotting diplomat whose complicated life was interwoven with the Cold War and America's emergence as the world's dominant power. |
2012 |
Biography or Autobiography |
John Lewis Gaddis |
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Graywolf Press |
Life on Mars |
A collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain. |
2012 |
Poetry |
Tracy K. Smith |
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Aperto Press |
Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts |
A stirring opera that recounts the true story of a spontaneous cease-fire among Scottish, French and Germans during World War I, displaying versatility of style and cutting straight to the heart. Libretto by Mark Campbell (Aperto Press). |
2012 |
Music |
Kevin Puts |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For its exploration of pervasive violence in the city's schools, using powerful print narratives and videos to illuminate crimes committed by children against children and to stir reforms to improve safety for teachers and students. |
2012 |
Public Service |
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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The Tuscaloosa News |
For its enterprising coverage of a deadly tornado, using social media as well as traditional reporting to provide real-time updates, help locate missing people and produce in-depth print accounts even after power disruption forced the paper to publish at another plant 50 miles away. |
2012 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
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Water by the Spoonful |
An imaginative play about the search for meaning by a returning Iraq war veteran working in a sandwich shop in his hometown of Philadelphia. |
2012 |
Drama |
Quiara Alegría Hudes |
|
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the Associated Press |
For their spotlighting of the New York Police Department's clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities, resulting in congressional calls for a federal investigation, and a debate over the proper role of domestic intelligence gathering. |
2012 |
Investigative Reporting |
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley |
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The Seattle Times |
For their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings. |
2012 |
Investigative Reporting |
Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong |
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The New York Times |
For his lucid series that penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation's wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided taxes. |
2012 |
Explanatory Reporting |
David Kocieniewski |
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For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky. |
2012 |
Local Reporting |
Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff |
|
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The Huffington Post |
For his riveting exploration of the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan during a decade of war. |
2012 |
National Reporting |
David Wood |
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The New York Times |
For his vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa, a neglected but increasingly strategic part of the world. |
2012 |
International Reporting |
Jeffrey Gettleman |
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The Stranger |
For his haunting story of a woman who survived a brutal attack that took the life of her partner, using the woman's brave courtroom testimony and the details of the crime to construct a moving narrative. |
2012 |
Feature Writing |
Eli Sanders |
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the Chicago Tribune |
For her wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city. |
2012 |
Commentary |
Mary Schmich |
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The Boston Globe |
For his smart, inventive film criticism, distinguished by pinpoint prose and an easy traverse between the art house and the big-screen box office. |
2012 |
Criticism |
Wesley Morris |
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POLITICO |
For his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington. |
2012 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Matt Wuerker |
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Agence France-Presse |
For his heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber's attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul. |
2012 |
Breaking News Photography |
Massoud Hossaini |
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The Denver Post |
For his compassionate chronicle of an honorably discharged veteran, home from Iraq and struggling with a severe case of post-traumatic stress, images that enable viewers to better grasp a national issue. |
2012 |
Feature Photography |
Craig F. Walker |
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No award |
2012 |
Editorial Writing |
No award |
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W.W. Norton & Company |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
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2012 |
General Nonfiction |
Stephen Greenblatt |
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Random House |
The Orphan Master's Son |
An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart. |
2013 |
Fiction |
Adam Johnson |
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Disgraced |
A moving play that depicts a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage. |
2013 |
Drama |
Ayad Akhtar |
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Alfred A. Knopf |
Stag's Leap |
A book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge. |
2013 |
Poetry |
Sharon Olds |
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New Amsterdam Records |
Partita for 8 Voices |
A highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects (New Amsterdam Records). |
2013 |
Music |
Caroline Shaw |
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Random House |
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam |
A balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war. |
2013 |
History |
Fredrik Logevall |
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Crown |
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo |
A compelling story of a forgotten swashbuckling hero of mixed race whose bold exploits were captured by his son, Alexander Dumas, in famous 19th century novels. |
2013 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Tom Reiss |
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Harper |
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America |
A richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle. |
2013 |
General Nonfiction |
Gilbert King |
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The Wall Street Journal |
For his incisive columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist. |
2013 |
Commentary |
Bret Stephens |
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Sun Sentinel |
For its well documented investigation of off-duty police officers who recklessly speed and endanger the lives of citizens, leading to disciplinary action and other steps to curtail a deadly hazard. |
2013 |
Public Service |
Sun Sentinel |
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The Denver Post |
For its comprehensive coverage of the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 and injured 58, using journalistic tools, from Twitter and Facebook to video and written reports, both to capture a breaking story and provide context. |
2013 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
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The New York Times |
For their reports on how Wal-Mart used widespread bribery to dominate the market in Mexico, resulting in changes in company practices. |
2013 |
Investigative Reporting |
David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab |
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Agence France-Presse |
For his extraordinary picture, distributed by Agence France-Presse, of two Syrian rebel soldiers tensely guarding their position as beams of light stream through bullet holes in a nearby metal wall. |
2013 |
Feature Photography |
Javier Manzano |
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The New York Times |
For its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers. |
2013 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Staff |
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Star Tribune |
For his diverse collection of cartoons, using an original style and clever ideas to drive home his unmistakable point of view. |
2013 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Steve Sack |
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Star Tribune |
For their powerful reports on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated day-care homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules. |
2013 |
Local Reporting |
Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt |
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InsideClimate News |
For their rigorous reports on flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or "dilbit"), a controversial form of oil. |
2013 |
National Reporting |
Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer |
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The New York Times |
For his striking exposure of corruption at high levels of the Chinese government, including billions in secret wealth owned by relatives of the prime minister, well documented work published in the face of heavy pressure from the Chinese officials. |
2013 |
International Reporting |
David Barboza |
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The New York Times |
For his evocative narrative about skiers killed in an avalanche and the science that explains such disasters, a project enhanced by its deft integration of multimedia elements. |
2013 |
Feature Writing |
John Branch |
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The Washington Post |
For his eloquent and passionate essays on art and the social forces that underlie it, a critic who always strives to make his topics and targets relevant to readers. |
2013 |
Criticism |
Philip Kennicott |
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Tampa Bay Times |
For their diligent campaign that helped reverse a decision to end fluoridation of the water supply for the 700,000 residents of the newspaper's home county |
2013 |
Editorial Writing |
Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth |
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Associated Press |
For their compelling coverage of the civil war in Syria, producing memorable images under extreme hazard. |
2013 |
Breaking News Photography |
Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen |
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Little, Brown |
The Goldfinch |
A beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters that follows a grieving boy's entanglement with a small famous painting that has eluded destruction, a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart. |
2014 |
Fiction |
Donna Tartt |
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The Flick |
A thoughtful drama with well-crafted characters that focuses on three employees of a Massachusetts art-house movie theater, rendering lives rarely seen on the stage. |
2014 |
Drama |
Annie Baker |
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W.W. Norton |
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 |
A meticulous and insightful account of why runaway slaves in the colonial era were drawn to the British side as potential liberators. |
2014 |
History |
Alan Taylor |
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life |
A richly researched book that tells the remarkable story of a 19th century author, journalist, critic and pioneering advocate of women's rights who died in a shipwreck. |
2014 |
Biography or Autobiography |
Megan Marshall |
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Graywolf Press |
3 Sections |
A compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless. |
2014 |
Poetry |
Vijay Seshadri |
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Bantam Books |
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation |
A book that deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town's cluster of childhood cancers linked to water and air pollution. |
2014 |
General Nonfiction |
Dan Fagin |
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Taiga Press/Theodore Front Musical Literature |
Become Ocean |
A haunting orchestral work that suggests a relentless tidal surge, evoking thoughts of melting polar ice and rising sea levels. |
2014 |
Music |
John Luther Adams |
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The Guardian US |
For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, helping through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy. |
2014 |
Public Service |
The Guardian US |
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The Washington Post |
For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security. |
2014 |
Public Service |
The Washington Post |
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The Boston Globe |
For its exhaustive and empathetic coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the ensuing manhunt that enveloped the city, using photography and a range of digital tools to capture the full impact of the tragedy. |
2014 |
Breaking News Reporting |
Staff |
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The Center for Public Integrity |
For his reports on how some lawyers and doctors rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners stricken with black lung disease, resulting in remedial legislative efforts. |
2014 |
Investigative Reporting |
Chris Hamby |
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The Washington Post |
For his unsettling and nuanced reporting on the prevalence of food stamps in post-recession America, forcing readers to grapple with issues of poverty and dependency. |
2014 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Eli Saslow |
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Tampa Bay Times |
For their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city's substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms. |
2014 |
Local Reporting |
Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia |
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The Gazette |
For expanding the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses, stories augmented with digital tools and stirring congressional action. |
2014 |
National Reporting |
David Philipps |
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Reuters |
For their courageous reports on the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar that, in efforts to flee the country, often falls victim to predatory human-trafficking networks. |
2014 |
International Reporting |
Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall |
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Detroit Free Press |
For his columns on the financial crisis facing his hometown, written with passion and a stirring sense of place, sparing no one in their critique. |
2014 |
Commentary |
Stephen Henderson |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |
For her criticism of architecture that blends expertise, civic passion and sheer readability into arguments that consistently stimulate and surprise. |
2014 |
Criticism |
Inga Saffron |
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The Oregonian |
For its lucid editorials that explain the urgent but complex issue of rising pension costs, notably engaging readers and driving home the link between necessary solutions and their impact on everyday lives. |
2014 |
Editorial Writing |
Editorial Staff of The Oregonian |
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The Charlotte Observer |
For his thought provoking cartoons drawn with a sharp wit and bold artistic style. |
2014 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Kevin Siers |
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The New York Times |
For his compelling pictures that showed skill and bravery in documenting the unfolding terrorist attack at Westgate mall in Kenya. |
2014 |
Breaking News Photography |
Tyler Hicks |
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The New York Times |
For his moving essay on a Boston Marathon bomb blast victim who lost most of both legs and now is painfully rebuilding his life. |
2014 |
Feature Photography |
Josh Haner |
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No award |
2014 |
Feature Writing |
No award |
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Scribner |
All the Light We Cannot See |
An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology. |
2015 |
Fiction |
Anthony Doerr |
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Red Poppy Music/G. Schirmer, Inc. |
Anthracite Fields |
A powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century. |
2015 |
Music |
Julia Wolfe |
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Between Riverside and Crazy |
A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death. |
2015 |
Drama |
Stephen Adly Guirgis |
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Random House |
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe |
An engrossing dual biography that uses recently opened Vatican archives to shed light on two men who exercised nearly absolute power over their realms. |
2015 |
Biography or Autobiography |
David I. Kertzer |
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Four Way Books |
Digest |
Clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America, rich with thought, ideas and histories public and private. |
2015 |
Poetry |
Gregory Pardlo |
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Henry Holt |
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History |
An exploration of nature that forces readers to consider the threat posed by human behavior to a world of astonishing diversity. |
2015 |
General Nonfiction |
Elizabeth Kolbert |
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For its digital account of a landslide that killed 43 people and the impressive follow-up reporting that explored whether the calamity could have been avoided. |
2015 |
Breaking News Reporting |
The Seattle Times Staff |
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Houston Chronicle |
For vividly-written, groundbreaking columns about grand jury abuses that led to a wrongful conviction and other egregious problems in the legal and immigration systems. |
2015 |
Commentary |
Lisa Falkenberg |
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Hill and Wang |
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People |
An engrossing, original narrative showing the Mandans, a Native American tribe in the Dakotas, as a people with a history. |
2015 |
History |
Elizabeth A. Fenn |
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The Post and Courier |
For "Till Death Do Us Part," a riveting series that probed why South Carolina is among the deadliest states in the union for women and put the issue of what to do about it on the state's agenda. |
2015 |
Public Service |
The Post and Courier |
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The New York Times |
For reporting that showed how the influence of lobbyists can sway congressional leaders and state attorneys general, slanting justice toward the wealthy and connected. |
2015 |
Investigative Reporting |
Eric Lipton |
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For "Medicare Unmasked," a pioneering project that gave Americans unprecedented access to previously confidential data on the motivations and practices of their health care providers. |
2015 |
Investigative Reporting |
The Wall Street Journal Staff |
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Bloomberg News |
For a painstaking, clear and entertaining explanation of how so many U.S. corporations dodge taxes and why lawmakers and regulators have a hard time stopping them. |
2015 |
Explanatory Reporting |
Zachary R. Mider |
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Daily Breeze |
For their inquiry into widespread corruption in a small, cash-strapped school district, including impressive use of the paper's website. |
2015 |
Local Reporting |
Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci |
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The Washington Post |
For her smart, persistent coverage of the Secret Service, its security lapses and the ways in which the agency neglected its vital task: the protection of the president of the United States. |
2015 |
National Reporting |
Carol D. Leonnig |
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For courageous front-line reporting and vivid human stories on Ebola in Africa, engaging the public with the scope and details of the outbreak while holding authorities accountable. |
2015 |
International Reporting |
The New York Times Staff |
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Los Angeles Times |
For her dispatches from California's Central Valley offering nuanced portraits of lives affected by the state's drought, bringing an original and empathic perspective to the story. |
2015 |
Feature Writing |
Diana Marcum |
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Los Angeles Times |
For savvy criticism that uses shrewdness, humor and an insider's view to show how both subtle and seismic shifts in the cultural landscape affect television. |
2015 |
Criticism |
Mary McNamara |
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The Boston Globe |
For taking readers on a tour of restaurant workers' bank accounts to expose the real price of inexpensive menu items and the human costs of income inequality. |
2015 |
Editorial Writing |
Kathleen Kingsbury |
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
For powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO, stunning photojournalism that served the community while informing the country. |
2015 |
Breaking News Photography |
Photography Staff |
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The Buffalo News |
Who used strong images to connect with readers while conveying layers of meaning in a few words. |
2015 |
Editorial Cartooning |
Adam Zyglis |
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The New York Times |
For his gripping, courageous photographs of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. |
2015 |
Feature Photography |
Daniel Berehulak |