Awards & Winners

1980 Pulitzer Prize

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1980 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Douglas Hofstadter

Honored for : Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

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Nominee Nominated Work
Douglas Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail
Sandra Gilbert The Madwoman in the Attic
Susan Gubar The Madwoman in the Attic
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Norman Mailer

Honored for : The Executioner's Song

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Nominee Nominated Work
Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song
Philip Roth The Ghost Writer
William Wharton Birdy
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Lanford Wilson

Honored for : Talley's Folly
Pulitzer Prize for Music

David Del Tredici

Honored for : In Memory of a Summer Day

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Nominee Nominated Work
David Del Tredici In Memory of a Summer Day
Lukas Foss Quintets for Orchestra
Morton Subotnick After the Butterfly
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Gannett News Service

(For its series on financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gannett News Service
For its series on financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers.
The Miami Herald
For disclosures of medical incompetence, malfeasance and abuse.
The Miami Herald
For its series on police brutality.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
For a series on toxic waste.
The St. Petersburg Times
For its investigation of the Church of Scientology. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category.)
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi, Stephen A. Kurkjian, Robert M. Porterfield, Alexander B. Hawes Jr.

([Local Investigative Specialized Reporting] For articles on Boston's transit system.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Nils Bruzelius
For articles on Boston's transit system.
Joan Vennochi
For articles on Boston's transit system.
Stephen A. Kurkjian
For articles on Boston's transit system.
Robert M. Porterfield
For articles on Boston's transit system.
Alexander B. Hawes Jr.
For articles on Boston's transit system.
Carole E. Agus
For investigation of a Long Island sewer scandal.
Andrew V. Fetherston Jr.
For investigation of a Long Island sewer scandal.
Frederick J. Tuccillo
For investigation of a Long Island sewer scandal.
Charles R. Cook
For expose of shoddy waste disposal practices.
James S. Carlton
For expose of shoddy waste disposal practices.
Judy Grande
For investigation of the handling of local murders.
Brian Gallagher
For investigation of the handling of local murders.
Lewis M. Simons
For a series on fraud in a large black self-help program.
Ron Shaffer
For a series on fraud in a large black self-help program.
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Bette Swenson Orsini, Charles Stafford

(For their investigation of the Church of Scientology.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Bette Swenson Orsini
For their investigation of the Church of Scientology.
Charles Stafford
For their investigation of the Church of Scientology.
Joseph P. Albright
For a series on energy.
George Anthan
For a series on disappearing farmland.
Los Angeles Times
For a series on chemicals in the environment, "Poisoning of America."
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Joel Brinkley, Jay Mather

(For stories from Cambodia.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joel Brinkley
For stories from Cambodia.
Jay Mather
For stories from Cambodia.
Peter Arnett
On the world's homeless.
Fox Butterfield
For dispatches from China.
Los Angeles Times
For coverage of Iran.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

Madeleine Blais

(For 'Zepp's Last Stand.')

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Nominee Nominated Work
Madeleine Blais
For \"Zepp's Last Stand.\"
Bonnie M. Anderson
For \"Execution of My Father.\"
John Sandford
For a series on Indians.
Saul Pett
On the snail darter.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ellen Goodman
Richard Reeves
Carl Rowan
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

William A. Henry III

(For critical writing about television.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
William A. Henry III
For critical writing about television.
William C. Glackin
William K. Robertson
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

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Nominee Nominated Work
John Alexander
Alfred Ames
Joan Beck
Bruce C. Davidson
Anne C. Wyman
Thomas Oliphant
Tom Dearmore
Robert L. Bartley
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

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Nominee Nominated Work
Don Wright
Dick Locher
Paul Szep
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

Erwin H. Hagler

(For a series on the Western cowboy.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Erwin H. Hagler
For a series on the Western cowboy.
David A. Kryszak
For a series on children of Cambodia.
John J. Sunderland
For a series on living and dying in a hospice.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Edmund Morris

Honored for : The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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Nominee Nominated Work
Meryle Secrest Being Bernard Berenson
Geoffrey Wolff The Duke Of Deception: Memories of My Father
Ernest Samuels Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Donald Justice

Honored for : Selected Poems

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Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Hugo Selected Poems
Dave Smith Goshawk, Antelope
Donald Justice Selected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for History

Leon Litwack

Honored for : Been in the Storm So Long

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gary B. Nash The Urban Crucible
John D. Unruh, Jr. The Plains Across
Leon Litwack Been in the Storm So Long
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

The Philadelphia Inquirer

([Local General or Spot News Reporting] For coverage of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.)
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

Jahangir Razmi

(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.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jahangir Razmi
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.
Robert L. Gay
For a series on a crazed veteran and a churchful of hostages.
Michael Haering
For a shot of a girl being struck by a car at a street demonstration in Beverly Hills.