1987 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Donald Barthelme |
Paradise
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| Norman Rush |
Whites
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| Peter Taylor |
A Summons to Memphis
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| August Wilson |
Fences
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| Lee Blessing |
A Walk in the Woods
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| Neil Simon |
Broadway Bound
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Rita Dove |
Thomas and Beulah
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| Hayden Carruth |
The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth
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| Charles Simic |
Unending Blues
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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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. |
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El Paso Herald-Post
For its "Year of the Printed Word," an intensive local effort to promote literacy through reporting and organizing community events. |
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Sun-Sentinel
For an investigation led by Fred Schulte, which exposed serious medical mishaps, including heart surgery deaths, at the nation's Veterans Administration hospitals and prompted remedial government action. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Woestendiek |
For outstanding prison beat reporting, which included proving the innocence of a man convicted of murder. |
| Daniel R. Biddle |
For their series \"Disorder in the Court,\" which revealed transgressions of justice in the Philadelphia court system and led to federal and state investigations. |
| H. G. Bissinger |
For their series \"Disorder in the Court,\" which revealed transgressions of justice in the Philadelphia court system and led to federal and state investigations. |
| Fredric N. Tulsky |
For their series \"Disorder in the Court,\" which revealed transgressions of justice in the Philadelphia court system and led to federal and state investigations. |
| Terrence Poppa |
For his resourceful investigation of the dealings of Mexican drug lords. |
| John Wark |
For their four-part series, which documented the misuse of funds by the Shrine of North America, the nation's richest charity, and spurred subsequent investigations in six states. |
| Gary Marx |
For their four-part series, which documented the misuse of funds by the Shrine of North America, the nation's richest charity, and spurred subsequent investigations in six states. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jeff Lyon |
For their series on the promises of gene therapy, which examined the implications of this revolutionary medical treatment. |
| Peter Gorner |
For their series on the promises of gene therapy, which examined the implications of this revolutionary medical treatment. |
| Leon Dash |
For his six-part series on teen-age pregnancy, which examined in compelling detail the complex realities behind a national problem. |
| Georgia Tasker |
For her special report on the vanishing rain forest, which detailed the rapid destruction of one of the earth's oldest and most fragile ecosystems. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Miami Herald
For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.\u2014Iran-Contra connection. |
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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. |
| Bob Woodward |
For articles that consistently exposed covert government operations in the Reagan Administration. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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Akron Beacon Journal
[General News Reporting] For its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. by a European financier. |
| John Woestendiek |
[General News Reporting] For outstanding prison beat reporting, which included proving the innocence of a man convicted of murder. |
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The Orange County Register
[General News Reporting] For its comprehensive coverage of the Cerritos air disaster, a midair collision of a jetliner and a private plane on August 31, 1986. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Parks |
For his balanced and comprehensive coverage of South Africa. |
| Phil Bronstein |
For his vivid and detailed coverage of the fall of the Marcos regime in the Philippines. |
| Mark Patinkin |
For his skillful coverage of religious strife in Northern Ireland, India and Lebanon. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steve Twomey |
For his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier. |
| Michael Connelly |
For \"Into the Storm--the Story of Flight 191,\" a sensitive reconstruction of an airplane crash. |
| Robert McClure |
For \"Into the Storm--the Story of Flight 191,\" a sensitive reconstruction of an airplane crash. |
| Malinda Reink |
For \"Into the Storm--the Story of Flight 191,\" a sensitive reconstruction of an airplane crash. |
| Barry Bearak |
For three gracefully written stories dealing respectively with a prison lawsuit, a family murder and an aging stand-up comic. |
| Alex Jones |
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. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles Krauthammer |
For his witty and insightful columns on national issues. |
| Richard Cohen |
For his eloquent columns on social and political issues. |
| Donald Kaul |
For his compelling commentary on national events. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alex Jones |
[Specialized Reporting] 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. |
| Angelo Cataldi |
[Specialized Reporting] For articles that profiled the Philadelphia Eagles football team's 1986 season under new head coach Buddy Ryan. |
| Irene Wielawski |
[Specialized Reporting] For medical reporting that consistently examined the human side of complex health care issues. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Eder |
For his book reviews. |
| Frank Rich |
For his theater criticism. |
| Andrew Sarris |
For his film criticism. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jonathan Freedman |
For his editorials urging passage of the first major immigration reform act in 34 years. |
| Bernard L. Stein |
For his editorials on various campaign issues affecting the Bronx, N.Y. community. |
| Daniel Henninger |
For his editorials on medical and ethical issues, which helped inspire changes in FDA drug approval procedures. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Berkeley Breathed |
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| Jeff Danziger |
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| David Horsey |
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| Henry Payne |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David C. Peterson |
For his photographs depicting the shattered dreams of American farmers. |
| Cheryl Nuss |
For her photographs of AIDS victims. |
| April Saul |
For her sensitive photographs of a Cambodian refugee child whose mother died of cancer. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Leonard L Richards |
The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams
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| Joseph Frank |
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
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| David Garrow |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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| A.M. Sperber |
Murrow: His Life and Times
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Eisenhower |
Eisenhower at War 1943/45
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| David Garrow |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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| Bernard Bailyn |
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Cyra McFadden |
Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir
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| David K. Shipler |
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
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| John McPhee |
Rising from the Plains
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Woestendiek |
For outstanding prison beat reporting, which included proving the innocence of a man convicted of murder. |
| Daniel R. Biddle |
For their series \"Disorder in the Court,\" which revealed transgressions of justice in the Philadelphia court system and led to federal and state investigations. |
| H. G. Bissinger |
For their series \"Disorder in the Court,\" which revealed transgressions of justice in the Philadelphia court system and led to federal and state investigations. |
| Fredric N. Tulsky |
For their series \"Disorder in the Court,\" which revealed transgressions of justice in the Philadelphia court system and led to federal and state investigations. |
| Terrence Poppa |
For his resourceful investigation of the dealings of Mexican drug lords. |
| John Wark |
For their four-part series, which documented the misuse of funds by the Shrine of North America, the nation's richest charity, and spurred subsequent investigations in six states. |
| Gary Marx |
For their four-part series, which documented the misuse of funds by the Shrine of North America, the nation's richest charity, and spurred subsequent investigations in six states. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kim Komenich |
For his photographic coverage of the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. |
| Bernie Boston |
For his photograph of Coretta Scott King at the unveiling of a bronze bust of her late husband in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. |
| Michael R. Brown |
For their photographs of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. |
| Malcolm A. Denemark |
For their photographs of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stephen Albert |
Flower of the Mountain
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| John Harbison |
The Flight Into Egypt
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Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Miami Herald
For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.\u2014Iran-Contra connection. |
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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. |
| Bob Woodward |
For articles that consistently exposed covert government operations in the Reagan Administration. |
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