1983 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Chaim Grade |
Rabbis and Wives
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| Anne Tyler |
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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| Alice Walker |
The Color Purple
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Marsha Norman |
'Night, Mother
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| Sam Shepard |
True West
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ellen Taaffe Zwilich |
Symphony No. 1
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| Vivian Fine |
Drama for Orchestra
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Clarion-Ledger
For its successful campaign supporting Governor Winter in his legislative battle for reform of Mississippi's public education system. |
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The Boston Globe
For its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category.) |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
For its ongoing investigation of mismanagement of the Washington Public Power Supply System's (WPPSS) nuclear construction program. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Loretta Tofani |
For her investigation of rape and sexual assault in the Prince George's County, Maryland, Detention Center. |
| Donald C. Drake |
For his series \"The Forsaken,\" a tragic portrait of the failure of mental health care in America. |
| R. G. Dunlop |
For their series on illegal and dangerous operations in the coal industry. |
| Robert T. Garrett |
For their series on illegal and dangerous operations in the coal industry. |
| Mike Brown |
For their series on illegal and dangerous operations in the coal industry. |
| Bill Osinski |
For their series on illegal and dangerous operations in the coal industry. |
| Stewart Bowman |
For their series on illegal and dangerous operations in the coal industry. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas L. Friedman |
For their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath.ù |
| Loren Jenkins |
For their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath.ù |
| Rod Nordland |
For his coverage of the impact of war and famine on Cambodia, Vietnam and East Timor. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Nan C. Robertson |
For her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with toxic shock syndrome. |
| Don Colburn |
For his documentation of the work of the nation's largest burn treatment center in Seattle, Wash. |
| James Ricci |
For his extraordinary account of an organ donation \"Kelly's Gift,\" and the effects it had on the lives of four strangers. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Claude Sitton |
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| Ross Mackenzie |
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| David G. Rossie |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Manuela Hoelterhoff |
For her wide-ranging criticism on the arts and other subjects. |
| Beth Dunlop |
For architectural criticism. |
| Stephen Schiff |
For film criticism. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Miami Herald
For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials. |
| Ralph B. Bennett |
For their editorial campaign urging passage of an immigration reform bill. |
| Jonathan Freedman |
For their editorial campaign urging passage of an immigration reform bill. |
| Marvin Seid |
For his series of editorials on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tony Auth |
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| Dick Wright |
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| Dick Locher |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James B. Dickman |
For his telling photographs of life and death in El Salvador. |
| Barron Ludlum |
For his picture story of a sick child's struggle for life. |
| John H. White |
For a variety of photographs depicting life in Chicago. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ted Morgan |
Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915
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| Russell Baker |
Growing up
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| Richard Norton Smith |
Thomas E. Dewey and His Times
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Galway Kinnell |
Selected Poems
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| Jack Gilbert |
Monolithos
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| Charles Wright |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Middlekauff |
The Glorious Cause
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| Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
Southern Honor
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| Rhys L. Isaac |
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Diane Johnson |
Terrorists and Novelists
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| Jonathan Schell |
The Fate of the Earth
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| Susan Sheehan |
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
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Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bill Foley |
For his moving series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the Sabra Camp in Beirut. |
| James L. Davis |
For his photographs of a shoot-out between members of a religious sect and local law enforcement officers in Miracle Valley, Ariz. |
| Daymon J. Hartley |
For his photographs of a fire rescue in Detroit. |
| Chester Panzer |
For his dramatic photos of the rescue of survivors of the Air Florida jet crash. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Boston Globe
For its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race. |
| Haynes Johnson |
For his reporting on the impact of the recession on communities across the nation. |
| Jim Henderson |
For his series on the persistence of racism in the \"New South\" and, in a second nomination, for his reporting on the consequences of atomic testing in America. |
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