Awards & Winners

1983 Pulitzer Prize

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1983 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Alice Walker

Honored for : The Color Purple

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Nominee Nominated Work
Chaim Grade Rabbis and Wives
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Marsha Norman

Honored for : 'Night, Mother

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marsha Norman 'Night, Mother
Sam Shepard True West
Pulitzer Prize for Music

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Honored for : Symphony No. 1

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Symphony No. 1
Vivian Fine Drama for Orchestra
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

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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Nominee Nominated Work
The Clarion-Ledger
For its successful campaign supporting Governor Winter in his legislative battle for reform of Mississippi's public education system.
The Boston Globe
For its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category.)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
For its ongoing investigation of mismanagement of the Washington Public Power Supply System's (WPPSS) nuclear construction program.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Loretta Tofani

([Local Investigative Specialized Reporting] For her investigation of rape and sexual assault in the Prince George's County, Maryland, Detention Center.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Thomas L. Friedman, Loren Jenkins

(For their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

Nan C. Robertson

(For her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with toxic shock syndrome.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

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Nominee Nominated Work
Claude Sitton
Ross Mackenzie
David G. Rossie
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Manuela Hoelterhoff

(For her wide-ranging criticism on the arts and other subjects.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

The Miami Herald

(For its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tony Auth
Dick Wright
Dick Locher
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

James B. Dickman

(For his telling photographs of life and death in El Salvador.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Russell Baker

Honored for : Growing up

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ted Morgan Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915
Russell Baker Growing up
Richard Norton Smith Thomas E. Dewey and His Times
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Galway Kinnell

Honored for : Selected Poems

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Nominee Nominated Work
Galway Kinnell Selected Poems
Jack Gilbert Monolithos
Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems
Pulitzer Prize for History

Rhys L. Isaac

Honored for : The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Middlekauff The Glorious Cause
Bertram Wyatt-Brown Southern Honor
Rhys L. Isaac The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Susan Sheehan

Honored for : Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

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Nominee Nominated Work
Diane Johnson Terrorists and Novelists
Jonathan Schell The Fate of the Earth
Susan Sheehan Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

The News-Sentinel

([Local General or Spot News Reporting] For its courageous and resourceful coverage of a devastating flood in March 1982.)
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

Bill Foley

(For his moving series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the Sabra Camp in Beirut.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

The Boston Globe

(For its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
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.