Awards & Winners

1991 Pulitzer Prize

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1991 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Mona Van Duyn

Honored for : Near Changes

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Nominee Nominated Work
Mona Van Duyn Near Changes
Anthony Hecht Transparent Man
Gerald Stern Leaving Another Kingdom
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

John Updike

Honored for : Rabbit at Rest

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Nominee Nominated Work
Linda Hogan Mean spirit
Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried
John Updike Rabbit at Rest
Pulitzer Prize for History

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Honored for : A Midwife's Tale

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Lizabeth Cohen Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Hugh Davis Graham The Civil Rights Era
Kenneth M. Stampp America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich A Midwife's Tale
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Neil Simon

Honored for : Lost in Yonkers

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Nominee Nominated Work
Neil Simon Lost in Yonkers
John Guare Six Degrees of Separation
Craig Lucas Prelude to a Kiss
Pulitzer Prize for Music

Shulamit Ran

Honored for : Symphony

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Nominee Nominated Work
Shulamit Ran Symphony
Bright Sheng Four Movements for Piano
Charles Fussell Wilde: A Symphony in Three Movements
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Jane Schorer

Honored for : The Des Moines Register
(For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped -- which prompted widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
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.
Star Tribune
For a series examining race relations and racial attitudes in the state, including those prevailing at the newspaper itself.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Susan M. Headden, Joseph Hallinan

(For their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism

Susan Faludi

(For a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., that revealed the human costs of high finance.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

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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Nominee Nominated Work
The Miami Herald
[Spot News Reporting] For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
The Detroit News
[Spot News Reporting] For its comprehensive coverage of the collision of two jets at the city's Metropolitan Airport.
Newsday
[Spot News Reporting] For detailed coverage of a Bronx social club fire that was caused by arson and claimed 87 lives.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Caryle Murphy

(For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities.)

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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.
The Wall Street Journal
For articles on the volatile Persian Gulf region, culminating in coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and its aftermath.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Serge Schmemann

(For his coverage of the reunification of Germany.)

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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.
The Wall Street Journal
For articles on the volatile Persian Gulf region, culminating in coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and its aftermath.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

Sheryl James

(For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Jim Hoagland

(For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

Natalie Angier

(For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

David Shaw

(For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin preschool trial.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Ron Casey, Harold Jackson, Joey Kennedy

(For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jim Borgman
Ralph Dunagin
Signe Wilkinson
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

William Snyder

(For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

Honored for : Jackson Pollock: An American Saga

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Nominee Nominated Work
Steven Naifeh Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Gregory White Smith Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Patricia O'Toole The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends1880-1918
Joseph Frazier Wall Alfred I. du Pont
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Bert Hölldobler, E. O. Wilson

Honored for : The Ants

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Nominee Nominated Work
Bert Hölldobler The Ants
E. O. Wilson The Ants
John McPhee Looking for a Ship
William duBuys River of Traps
Alex Harris River of Traps
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Marjie Lundstrom, Rochelle Sharpe

(For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

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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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.
Detroit Free Press
For photographs of Nelson Mandela's release from prison and subsequent trip to America.
Newsday
For photographs taken after the crash of Avianca Flight 52 in Cove Neck, New York.