1991 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mona Van Duyn |
Near Changes
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| Anthony Hecht |
Transparent Man
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| Gerald Stern |
Leaving Another Kingdom
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Linda Hogan |
Mean spirit
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| Tim O'Brien |
The Things They Carried
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| John Updike |
Rabbit at Rest
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lizabeth Cohen |
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
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| Hugh Davis Graham |
The Civil Rights Era
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| Kenneth M. Stampp |
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
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| Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
A Midwife's Tale
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Neil Simon |
Lost in Yonkers
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| John Guare |
Six Degrees of Separation
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| Craig Lucas |
Prelude to a Kiss
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Shulamit Ran |
Symphony
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| Bright Sheng |
Four Movements for Piano
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| Charles Fussell |
Wilde: A Symphony in Three Movements
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Des Moines Register
For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped --which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims. |
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Los Angeles Times
For a series by David Freed on the impact of the high crime rate on the city's criminal justice system, which prompted immediate steps toward reform. |
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Star Tribune
For a series examining race relations and racial attitudes in the state, including those prevailing at the newspaper itself. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Susan M. Headden |
For their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state. |
| Joseph Hallinan |
For their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state. |
| Candy J. Cooper |
For reports revealing that the Oakland Police Department had routinely neglected to investigate rape charges, which prompted the reopening of more than 200 cases. |
| Ray Herndon |
For persistent reporting that freed an innocent man serving a 55-year prison sentence. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Susan Faludi |
For a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., that revealed the human costs of high finance. |
| Charles A. Hite |
For insightful stories about life-and-death decisions at a local intensive care unit. |
| Ronald Kotulak |
For their series about the promises and quandaries of genetic research. |
| Peter Gorner |
For their series about the promises and quandaries of genetic research. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Miami Herald
[Spot News Reporting] For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders. |
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The Detroit News
[Spot News Reporting] For its comprehensive coverage of the collision of two jets at the city's Metropolitan Airport. |
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Newsday
[Spot News Reporting] For detailed coverage of a Bronx social club fire that was caused by arson and claimed 87 lives. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Serge Schmemann |
For his coverage of the reunification of Germany. |
| Caryle Murphy |
For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities. |
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The Wall Street Journal
For articles on the volatile Persian Gulf region, culminating in coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and its aftermath. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Serge Schmemann |
For his coverage of the reunification of Germany. |
| Caryle Murphy |
For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities. |
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The Wall Street Journal
For articles on the volatile Persian Gulf region, culminating in coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and its aftermath. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sheryl James |
For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others. |
| Tad Bartimus |
For her moving account of her father's death from lung cancer. |
| Wil Haygood |
For three illuminating portraits of African-American life. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jim Hoagland |
For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| Rheta Grimsley Johnson |
For her insightful columns on a variety of topics. |
| Philip Terzian |
For his gracefully written columns about national and international events. |
| William Woo |
For his thoughtful columns on local and national subjects. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Natalie Angier |
For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics. |
| Scott Harper |
For reporting that uncovered hazing, sexual harassment and generally biased treatment of female cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy and prompted six congressional and naval investigations. |
| David Shaw |
For reporting on media coverage of a variety of public issues. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Shaw |
For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case. |
| Christopher Knight |
For his columns on art and artists. |
| Joyce Millman |
For her television criticism. |
| Leslie Savan |
For perceptive articles critiquing various forms of advertising. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ron Casey |
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms. |
| Harold Jackson |
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms. |
| Joey Kennedy |
For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms. |
| Seth Lipsky |
For his editorials on a variety of national issues, including some of specific interest to the American Jewish community. |
| Martin Nolan |
For his editorial series "Why Politics Stinks," which called for reform of the nation's troubled political system. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jim Borgman |
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| Ralph Dunagin |
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| Signe Wilkinson |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Snyder |
For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania. |
| Ron Cortes |
For his photographic essay about a senior citizen who returned to her former high school to complete her education. |
| Jay Mather |
For his series of photographs depicting Yosemite National Park and its visitors during the park's centennial year. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steven Naifeh |
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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| Gregory White Smith |
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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| Patricia O'Toole |
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends1880-1918
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| Joseph Frazier Wall |
Alfred I. du Pont
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bert Hölldobler |
The Ants
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| E. O. Wilson |
The Ants
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| John McPhee |
Looking for a Ship
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| William duBuys |
River of Traps
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| Alex Harris |
River of Traps
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Marjie Lundstrom |
For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners. |
| Rochelle Sharpe |
For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners. |
| Bruce D. Butterfield |
For his series describing child labor abuses in nine states. |
| Charles Green |
For a series examining the problems and failures of the Medicaid health care system. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Greg Marinovich |
For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy. |
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Detroit Free Press
For photographs of Nelson Mandela's release from prison and subsequent trip to America. |
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Newsday
For photographs taken after the crash of Avianca Flight 52 in Cove Neck, New York. |
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