Awards & Winners

Scott Higham

Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning member of The Washington Post's investigations unit. He has conducted numerous investigations for the news organization, including an examination of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, and waste and fraud in Homeland Security contracting. The Abu Ghraib investigation was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, and the series on contracting won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for large newspapers. He has also conducted investigations into spending at Guantanamo Bay and conflicts of interests on Capitol Hill. Higham, Sari Horwitz and Sarah Cohen were awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into the deaths of foster children in Washington DC. Higham and Sari Horwitz are also co-authors of Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery. The non-fiction book chronicles the 2001 disappearance of Washington, DC intern Chandra Levy, whose remains were found one year later in an isolated area of the city's 2,800-acre Rock Creek Park. The book was a finalist for an Edgar Award, sponsored by Mystery Writers of America.

Awards by Scott Higham

Check all the awards nominated and won by Scott Higham.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Finding Chandra

2002


Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
(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.)

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
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.

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
For their chilling portrait of seven suburban teenagers accused of murdering a friend.