1996 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Ford |
Independence Day
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| Oscar Hijuelos |
Mr Ives' Christmas
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| Philip Roth |
Sabbath's Theater
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lance Banning |
Sacred Fire of Liberty
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| Richard Rhodes |
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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| Alan Taylor |
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jonathan Larson |
Rent
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| Jon Robin Baitz |
A Fair Country
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| Jon Marans |
Old Wicked Songs
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Maynard Solomon |
Mozart
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| John Loughery |
John Sloan
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| Jack Miles |
God: A Biography
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The News & Observer
For the work of Melanie Sill, Pat Stith and Joby Warrick on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's growing hog industry. |
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Star Tribune
For articles revealing questionable favors extended by a local legal publishing company to members of the federal judiciary, including several Supreme court justices. |
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The Baltimore Sun
For the work of Ginger Thompson and Gary Cohn that disclosed the activities of a Honduran army unit that abducted, tortured and murdered political suspects in the 1980s with the knowledge of the CIA. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Orange County Register
For reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms. |
| Chris Adams |
For reporting on widespread Medicaid abuse in the state involving prominent officials. |
| William Gaines |
For stories that probed questionable business dealings of the Nation of Islam. |
| David Jackson |
For stories that probed questionable business dealings of the Nation of Islam. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Laurie Garrett |
For her courageous reporting from Zaire on the Ebola virus outbreak there. |
| Michael A. Hiltzik |
For reporting on problems stemming from the lack of regulation in California's booming managed health care industry and the implications for the rest of the country. |
| David R. Olmos |
For reporting on problems stemming from the lack of regulation in California's booming managed health care industry and the implications for the rest of the country. |
| Barbara Marsh |
For reporting on problems stemming from the lack of regulation in California's booming managed health care industry and the implications for the rest of the country. |
| Chris Lester |
For their series on the impact of spreading suburban growth. |
| Jeffrey Spivak |
For their series on the impact of spreading suburban growth. |
| Adam Bryant |
For their coverage of deficient safety regulation of commuter air traffic. |
| Stephen Engelberg |
For their coverage of deficient safety regulation of commuter air traffic. |
| Matthew L. Wald |
For their coverage of deficient safety regulation of commuter air traffic. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alix M. Freedman |
For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency. |
| Russell Carollo |
For their reporting on lenient handling of sexual misconduct cases by the military justice system |
| Carol Hernandez |
For their reporting on lenient handling of sexual misconduct cases by the military justice system |
| Jeff Nesmith |
For their reporting on lenient handling of sexual misconduct cases by the military justice system |
| David Maraniss |
For their accounts of the way the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives played out during 1995. |
| Michael Weisskopf |
For their accounts of the way the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives played out during 1995. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert D. McFadden |
[Spot News Reporting] For his highly skilled writing and reporting on deadline during the year. |
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The Eagle-Tribune
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of a fire that leveled a local textile factory, the city's largest employer, and its devastating effects on the community. |
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Los Angeles Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its coverage of the local and global impact of the purchase of Capital Cities/ABC Inc. by the Walt Disney Company. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David S. Rohde |
For his persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. |
| Laurie Garrett |
For her courageous reporting from Zaire on the Ebola virus outbreak there. |
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The Wall Street Journal
For its coverage of the collapse of the Mexican peso and the resulting effect on world finance. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Rick Bragg |
For his elegantly written stories about contemporary America. |
| Richard E. Meyer |
For \"Buried Alive,\" his chilling profile of a woman's desperate attempts to communicate after being left mute and paralyzed by strokes. |
| Hank Stuever |
For his detailed and highly personal account of returning to his hometown of Oklahoma City after the bombing there. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Herb Caen |
For his columns about life in San Francisco and beyond. |
| Dorothy Rabinowitz |
For her columns effectively challenging key cases of alleged child abuse. |
| E.R. Shipp |
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Keeler |
[Beat Reporting] For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners. |
| Alison Grant |
[Beat Reporting] For articles uncovering corrupt dealings between contractors and city officials in the suburb of Beachwood that resulted in indictments and significant reforms. |
| Fred Schulte |
[Beat Reporting] For disclosing problems and abuses in the state's tax-funded Medicaid health maintenance organizations. |
| Jenni Bergal |
[Beat Reporting] For disclosing problems and abuses in the state's tax-funded Medicaid health maintenance organizations. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Campbell |
For his knowledgeable writing on architecture. |
| Gail Caldwell |
For her insightful reviews and comments on books and the literary scene. |
| Stephen Hunter |
For his distinguished film criticism. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert B. Semple, Jr. |
For his editorials on environmental issues. |
| Daniel Henninger |
For his editorials on a wide range of topical subjects. |
| N. Don Wycliff |
For his editorials about welfare reform and its effect on children. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jim Morin |
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| Jim Borgman |
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| Tom Toles |
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| Ted Rall |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stephanie Welsh |
For her shocking sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a female circumcision rite in Kenya. |
| Stan Grossfeld |
For his photographs documenting how the lives of two teen-agers were transformed by the birth of their child. |
| David C. Turnley |
For his series of portraits from Bosnia. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Donald Justice |
New and Selected Poems
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| Charles Wright |
Chickamauga
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| Jorie Graham |
The Dream of the Unified Field
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Daniel Dennett |
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
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| Lawrence Weschler |
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
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| Tina Rosenberg |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
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Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles Porter IV |
For his haunting photographs, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing and distributed by the Associated Press, showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a local fireman. |
| Jerome Delay |
For his dramatic photographic coverage of the Middle East and Bosnia (Moved by the Jury from the Feature Photography category.) |
| Associated Press |
For a portfolio of searing images of the war in Chechnya. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| George Walker |
Lilacs
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| Elliott Carter |
Adagio Tenebroso
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| Peter Lieberson |
Variations for Violin and Piano
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Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
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