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1995 Pulitzer Prize

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1995 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Carol Shields

Honored for : The Stone Diaries

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joyce Carol Oates What I Lived For
Grace Paley The Collected Stories
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
Pulitzer Prize for History

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Honored for : No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II

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Nominee Nominated Work
James Goodman Stories of Scottsboro
Merrill D. Peterson Lincoln in American Memory
Doris Kearns Goodwin No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Horton Foote

Honored for : The Young Man from Atlanta

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Nominee Nominated Work
Horton Foote The Young Man from Atlanta
David Mamet The Cryptogram
August Wilson Seven Guitars
Pulitzer Prize for Music

Morton Gould

Honored for : Stringmusic

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Nominee Nominated Work
Morton Gould Stringmusic
Donald Erb Evensong
Andrew Imbrie Adam, a cantata for mixed chorus with soprano solo and small orchestra
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Melvin Claxton

Honored for : 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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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
The Charlotte Observer
For examining the city's declining inner-city neighborhoods, proposing improvements and helping to organize citizens to ward off further deterioration.
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Stephanie Saul, Brian Donovan

(For their stories that revealed disability pension abuses by local police.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism

Leon Dash, Lucian Perkins

(For their profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with destructive cycles of poverty, illiteracy, crime and drug abuse.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Tony Horwitz

(For stories about working conditions in low-wage America.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Mark Fritz

(For his reporting on the ethnic violence and slaughter in Rwanda.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

Ron Suskind

(For his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper. These articles would later become his first book A Hope in the Unseen)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Jim Dwyer

(For his compelling and compassionate columns about New York City.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

David Shribman

([Beat Reporting] For his analytical reporting on Washington developments and the national scene.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Margo Jefferson

(For her book reviews and other cultural criticism.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Jeffrey Good

(For his editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates.)

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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.
The Des Moines Register
For its elegantly written series, \"What's Right About Iowa?\"
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert L. Arail
Jim Borgman
Mike Luckovich
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

Associated Press

(For its portfolio of photographs chronicling the horror and devastation in Rwanda.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Joan D. Hedrick

Honored for : Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stacy Schiff Saint Exupéry
Roger K Newman Hugo Black
Joan D. Hedrick Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Philip Levine

Honored for : The Simple Truth

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Nominee Nominated Work
Philip Levine The Simple Truth
Allen Ginsberg Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992
Kenneth Koch On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988","One Train
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Jonathan Weiner

Honored for : The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

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Nominee Nominated Work
John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Jonathan Weiner The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Sherwin B. Nuland How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

Carol Guzy

(For her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

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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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.
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.
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.