1995 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
What I Lived For
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| Grace Paley |
The Collected Stories
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| Carol Shields |
The Stone Diaries
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Goodman |
Stories of Scottsboro
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| Merrill D. Peterson |
Lincoln in American Memory
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| Doris Kearns Goodwin |
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Horton Foote |
The Young Man from Atlanta
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| David Mamet |
The Cryptogram
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| August Wilson |
Seven Guitars
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Morton Gould |
Stringmusic
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| Donald Erb |
Evensong
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| Andrew Imbrie |
Adam, a cantata for mixed chorus with soprano solo and small orchestra
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Virgin Islands Daily News
For its disclosure of the links between the region's rampant crime rate and corruption in the local criminal justice system. The reporting, largely the work of Melvin Claxton, initiated political reforms. |
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The Charlotte Observer
For examining the city's declining inner-city neighborhoods, proposing improvements and helping to organize citizens to ward off further deterioration. |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
For disclosing fraudulent practices in a local election, bringing about the overturn of the election and the reform of many of the city's electoral practices. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Brian Donovan |
For their stories that revealed disability pension abuses by local police. |
| Stephanie Saul |
For their stories that revealed disability pension abuses by local police. |
| Joan Mazzolini |
For their series of stories exposing abuses by Ohio doctors and hospitals, which resulted in significant reforms in the state's regulatory system. |
| Dave Davis |
For their series of stories exposing abuses by Ohio doctors and hospitals, which resulted in significant reforms in the state's regulatory system. |
| Keith A. Harriston |
For a series of articles that disclosed careless hiring, training and disciplinary procedures within the District of Columbia police department. |
| Mary Pat Flaherty |
For a series of articles that disclosed careless hiring, training and disciplinary procedures within the District of Columbia police department. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Leon Dash |
For their profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with destructive cycles of poverty, illiteracy, crime and drug abuse. |
| Lucian Perkins |
For their profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with destructive cycles of poverty, illiteracy, crime and drug abuse. |
| Ron Suskind |
For his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C. and their determination to survive and prosper. |
| Montgomery Advertiser |
For its probe of questionable management practices and self-interest at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the nation's best-endowed civil rights charity. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tony Horwitz |
For stories about working conditions in low-wage America. |
| David Shribman |
For his analytical reporting on Washington developments and the national scene. |
| David Zucchino |
For their stories about the origins and impact of violence in America. |
| Stephen Seplow |
For their stories about the origins and impact of violence in America. |
| John Woestendiek |
For their stories about the origins and impact of violence in America. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mark Fritz |
For his reporting on the ethnic violence and slaughter in Rwanda. |
| Barbara Demick |
For her reporting from Sarajevo, in which she describes the effects of war on a neighborhood. |
| Lewis M. Simons |
For their series of stories on the growing economic and political influence of overseas Chinese on Asia. |
| Michael Zielenziger |
For their series of stories on the growing economic and political influence of overseas Chinese on Asia. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ron Suskind |
For his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper. |
| David Finkel |
For his story examining middle class flight from the District of Columbia, and for two profiles: of a family that watches television 17 hours a day, and of a Rush Limbaugh fan. |
| Anne Hull |
For her account of a local businessman's secret life of drug addiction and consorting with prostitutes. |
| Fen Montaigne |
For stories about people who enjoy the outdoors, especially those with a passion for fishing. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paul Gigot |
For his insightful columns on Washington politics. |
| Carl Rowan |
For his columns disclosing corruption and mismanagement at the NAACP, which prompted reforms at the civil rights organization. |
| Jim Dwyer |
For his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Shribman |
[Beat Reporting] Washington developments and the national scene. |
| Michael J. Berens |
[Beat Reporting] For a series revealing inequities in the county municipal court system, including the widespread jailing of individuals too poor to pay fines for minor offenses and the release of other, more serious offenders who were able to pay. |
| Tom Hallman Jr. |
[Beat Reporting] For the series \"Extreme Indifference,\" on the prosecution of a drunken driver convicted of killing four pedestrians, and for his reporting on public safety. |
| Jason DeParle |
[Beat Reporting] For Washington D.C. welfare and social policy coverage that focused on the condition of the poor and Federal Government actions affecting them. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Margo Jefferson |
For her book reviews and other cultural criticism. |
| Stephen Hunter |
For his film criticism. |
| Dorothy Rabinowitz |
For her writing about television. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jeffrey Good |
For his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates. |
| Bailey Thomson |
For their series of editorials advocating the revision of Alabama's 1901 constitution. |
| Carol McPhail |
For their series of editorials advocating the revision of Alabama's 1901 constitution. |
| David Thomasson |
For their series of editorials advocating the revision of Alabama's 1901 constitution. |
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The Des Moines Register
For its elegantly written series, \"What's Right About Iowa?\" |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert L. Arail |
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| Jim Borgman |
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| Mike Luckovich |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Associated Press |
For its portfolio of photographs chronicling the horror and devastation in Rwanda. |
| Carl Bower |
For his series of photographs, published by Newhouse News Service, of a woman's fight against breast cancer. |
| George Cunningham |
Press-Telegram
For its collection of life-affirming images, drawn from the daily activities of local residents. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stacy Schiff |
Saint Exupéry
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| Roger K Newman |
Hugo Black
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| Joan D. Hedrick |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Philip Levine |
The Simple Truth
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| Allen Ginsberg |
Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992
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| Kenneth Koch |
On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988","One Train
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Berendt |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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| Jonathan Weiner |
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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| Sherwin B. Nuland |
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
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Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Carol Guzy |
For her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath. |
| Denis Farrell |
For his aerial-view photograph of hundreds of South Africans lined up to vote in the country's first all-race elections. |
| David Leeson |
For his photograph of a Texas family moving through chest-high flood waters, a group he ultimately led to safety. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Rocky Mountain News |
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of a deadly wildfire that killed 14 firefighters, the worst disaster of its kind in Colorado' s history. |
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The New York Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of the city's police department as it was rocked by charges of corruption in a Harlem precinct. |
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Los Angeles Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its reporting on January 17, 1994, of the chaos and devastation in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake. |
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