1994 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| E. Annie Proulx |
The Shipping News
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| Reynolds Price |
The collected stories
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| Philip Roth |
Operation Shylock: A Confession
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Edward Albee |
Three Tall Women
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| Terrence McNally |
A Perfect Ganesh
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| Jane Martin |
Keely and Du
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gunther Schuller |
Of Reminiscences and Reflections
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| Aaron Jay Kernis |
Still Movement with Hymn
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| Charles Wuorinen |
Microsymphony
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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Akron Beacon Journal
For its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community. |
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The Albuquerque Tribune
For the work of Eileen Welsome, which related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago. |
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Chicago Tribune
For its year-long examination of child homicide, which focused individual attention on 61 children and the circumstances of their deaths. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ronald Kotulak |
For his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science. |
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The Dallas Morning News
For its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations. |
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Newsday
For its exhaustive investigation of breast cancer in the community, which included a probe of the environmental factors that may contribute to its spread. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eileen Welsome |
For stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago. |
| Isabel Wilkerson |
For her coverage of the Midwestern flood of 1993 and other stories. |
| Gilbert M. Gaul |
For their investigation that identified rampant abuses of America's nonprofit tax laws. |
| Neill Borowski |
For their investigation that identified rampant abuses of America's nonprofit tax laws. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Dallas Morning News
For its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations. |
| Carol J. Williams |
For her reporting from the former Yugoslavia. |
| Keith Richburg |
For his dispatches from Somalia. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Isabel Wilkerson |
For her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993. |
| April Witt |
For their chilling portrait of seven suburban teenagers accused of murdering a friend. |
| Scott Higham |
For their chilling portrait of seven suburban teenagers accused of murdering a friend. |
| Mark Feeney |
For his provocative profile of former President Richard Nixon. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Raspberry |
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics. |
| Jane Daugherty |
For her \"Children First\" columns, about issues affecting the youngest Americans. |
| Peter H. King |
For his columns about California, filed from around the state. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eric Freedman |
[Beat Reporting] For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency. |
| Jim Mitzelfeld |
[Beat Reporting] For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency. |
| Joan Connell |
[Beat Reporting] For her reporting and writing on religion, ethics and morality. |
| John Woestendiek |
[Beat Reporting] For his coverage of the promise and perils of city youth. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lloyd Schwartz |
For his skillful and resonant classical music criticism. |
| Henry Allen |
For his imaginative and varied cultural criticism. |
| Matt Zoller Seitz |
For his lucid and insightful film criticism. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| R. Bruce Dold |
For his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system. |
| Jim Montgomery |
For a series of editorials examining the benefits and drawbacks of drug legalization. |
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The Birmingham News
For editorials urging the reform of Alabama's failing public school system. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Ramirez |
For his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues. |
| Steve Benson |
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| Lynn Johnston |
For a sequence in her comic strip \"For Better or For Worse\" that sensitively depicted a youth's disclosure of his homosexuality and its effect on his family and friends. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kevin Carter |
For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby. |
| Stan Grossfeld |
For \"The Exhausted Earth,\" a year-long series depicting the social, medical and environmental crises caused by the depletion of natural resources. |
| April Saul |
For \"American Dreamers,\" her series of photographs of a working-class family coping with hardships while striving for a better life. |
| Associated Press |
For its collection of images about the Middle East, including those that illustrate the turbulent lives of Arabs and Jews in Israel. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Edmund White |
Genet: A Biography
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| Deborah Baker |
In extremis
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| David Levering Lewis |
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Brenda Hillman |
Bright Existence
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| Allen Mandelbaum |
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
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| Yusef Komunyakaa |
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Remnick |
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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| John Lukacs |
The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age
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| Peter Gay |
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud
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Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paul Watson |
For his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis. |
| Kevin Carter |
For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby. |
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Los Angeles Times
For photographs of the devastation left by fires that blazed through Southern California. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert D. McFadden |
[Spot News Reporting] For his consistently impressive work during the year, much of it on deadline. |
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The New York Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center. |
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Los Angeles Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its richly detailed coverage of the first day of fires that ravaged Southern California. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dean Baquet |
For their reports that exposed costly fraud and mismanagement plaguing Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York state, America's largest not-for-profit health insurer. |
| Jane Fritsch |
For their reports that exposed costly fraud and mismanagement plaguing Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York state, America's largest not-for-profit health insurer. |
| Mark England |
For stories that revealed sexual abuse and other criminal acts within the local compound held by members of the Branch Davidian cult. |
| Darlene McCormick |
For stories that revealed sexual abuse and other criminal acts within the local compound held by members of the Branch Davidian cult. |
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The Providence Journal
For thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the Rhode Island court system. |
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