Awards & Winners

1987 Pulitzer Prize

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1987 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Peter Taylor

Honored for : A Summons to Memphis

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Nominee Nominated Work
Donald Barthelme Paradise
Norman Rush Whites
Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

August Wilson

Honored for : Fences

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Nominee Nominated Work
August Wilson Fences
Lee Blessing A Walk in the Woods
Neil Simon Broadway Bound
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Rita Dove

Honored for : Thomas and Beulah

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rita Dove Thomas and Beulah
Hayden Carruth The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth
Charles Simic Unending Blues
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Andrew Schneider, Matthew Brelis

Honored for : 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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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
El Paso Herald-Post
For its "Year of the Printed Word," an intensive local effort to promote literacy through reporting and organizing community events.
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Daniel R. Biddle, H. G. Bissinger, 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.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism

Jeff Lyon, Peter Gorner

(For their series on the promises of gene therapy, which examined the implications of this revolutionary medical treatment.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

The Miami Herald

(For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.-Iran-Contra connection.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
The Miami Herald
For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.\u2014Iran-Contra connection.
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

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.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
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.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Michael Parks

(For his balanced and comprehensive coverage of South Africa.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

Steve Twomey

(For his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Charles Krauthammer

(For his witty and insightful columns on national issues.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

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.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Richard Eder

(For his book reviews.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Eder
For his book reviews.
Frank Rich
For his theater criticism.
Andrew Sarris
For his film criticism.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Jonathan Freedman

(For his editorials urging passage of the first major immigration reform act in 34 years.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

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Nominee Nominated Work
Berkeley Breathed
Jeff Danziger
David Horsey
Henry Payne
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

David C. Peterson

(For his photographs depicting the shattered dreams of American farmers.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

David Garrow

Honored for : Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Nominee Nominated Work
Leonard L Richards The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams
Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
David Garrow Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A.M. Sperber Murrow: His Life and Times
Pulitzer Prize for History

Bernard Bailyn

Honored for : Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

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Nominee Nominated Work
David Eisenhower Eisenhower at War 1943/45
David Garrow Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bernard Bailyn Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

David K. Shipler

Honored for : Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

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Nominee Nominated Work
Cyra McFadden Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir
David K. Shipler Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
John McPhee Rising from the Plains
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

John Woestendiek

(For outstanding prison beat reporting, which included proving the innocence of a man convicted of murder.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

Kim Komenich

(For his photographic coverage of the fall of Ferdinand Marcos.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Music

John Harbison

Honored for : The Flight Into Egypt

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stephen Albert Flower of the Mountain
John Harbison The Flight Into Egypt
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

(For his extraordinary services to American journalism and letters during his 31 years as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board and for his accomplishments as an editor and publisher.)
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

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.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
The Miami Herald
For its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.\u2014Iran-Contra connection.
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.