1997 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
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| Joanna Scott |
The Manikin
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| Steven Millhauser |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mary Beth Norton |
Founding Mothers & Fathers
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| Stephen Nissenbaum |
The Battle for Christmas
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| Jack N. Rakove |
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kim Barnes |
In the Wilderness
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| Hershel Parker |
Herman Melville: A Biography Volume 1, 1819-1851
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| Frank McCourt |
Angela's Ashes
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Wynton Marsalis |
Blood on the Fields (feat. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra)
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| John Musto |
Dove Sta Amore
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| Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski |
Passacaglia Immaginaria
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Times-Picayune
For its comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish. |
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Los Angeles Times
For its probe of murder cases in Los Angeles County, which revealed inefficiency and mismanagement in the justice system. |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
For a series by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele chronicling the widening gap between the affluent and the poor at a time when Americans are being told that the economy is more prosperous than ever. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eric Nalder |
For their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms. |
| Deborah Nelson |
For their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms. |
| Alex Tizon |
For their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms. |
| Jim Haner |
For engendering regulatory reform through dogged reporting, which revealed that housing officials in the city owned neglected inner-city properties. |
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The Boston Globe
For its expose of abuse of disability benefits by retired public employees, prompting reform of the Massachusetts pension system. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Vitez |
For a series on the choices that confronted critically-ill patients who sought to die with dignity. |
| Ron Cortes |
For a series on the choices that confronted critically-ill patients who sought to die with dignity. |
| April Saul |
For a series on the choices that confronted critically-ill patients who sought to die with dignity. |
| John M. Crewdson |
For a series of reports that illustrated through dramatic examples the need for training of personnel and installation of special equipment by U.S. airlines to cope with medical emergencies in the air. |
| Gregory Kane |
For their portrait of the complex practices of slavery in the Sudan. |
| Gilbert Lewthwaite |
For their portrait of the complex practices of slavery in the Sudan. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Sanford |
The Wall Street Journal
For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease. |
| Michael Waldholz |
The Wall Street Journal
For its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease. |
| Ronald Brownstein |
For his comprehensive political coverage during the presidential election year |
| Bill Moushey |
For his resourceful reporting on the federal Witness Protection Program illustrating how the program's secrecy and lack of oversight has led to abuses and risks to the public. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John F. Burns |
For his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban. |
| Tony Freemantle |
For his reporting from Rwanda, South Africa, El Salvador and Guatemala on why crimes against humanity go unstopped and unpunished. |
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Chicago Tribune
For its global examination of overpopulation illustrated by struggling families who continue to bear children they cannot afford. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lisa Pollak |
For her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease. |
| Jeffrey Fleishman |
For his versatile storytelling, notably including an account of the flight of 15 Buddhist monks from Tibet through the Himalayas. |
| Julia Prodis |
For her trio of vivid stories about three teenagers on a deadly journey, a photograph from the Oklahoma City bombing, and a vacuum cleaner that catches prairie dogs. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eileen McNamara |
For her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues. |
| Tony Kornheiser |
For his evocative columns ranging from sports and politics to tales of heroes and fools. |
| Deborah Work |
For speaking out in highly personal yet broadly relevant columns in roles as diverse as parent, citizen, critic and philosopher. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Byron Acohido |
[Beat Reporting] For his coverage of the aerospace industry, notably an exhaustive investigation of rudder control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA requirements for major improvements. |
| Craig Flournoy |
[Beat Reporting] For his coverage of low-income housing programs, including the disclosure that Dallas officials had misspent or failed to utilize millions of federal dollars allocated for impoverished areas. |
| Celia W. Dugger |
[Beat Reporting] For her coverage of the plight of a young African woman who was jailed by U.S. immigration officials after she fled her homeland and its tribal rite of genital mutilation to seek asylum in the country, which prompted worldwide reaction. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tim Page |
For his lucid and illuminating music criticism. |
| Herbert Muschamp |
For his criticism of architecture in America, written with devotion to the art, penetrating analysis and literate style. |
| Leslie Savan |
For her analytical columns about the forces at work behind advertising and consumerism, particularly on television. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Gartner |
For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community. |
| Margaretta Downey |
For her editorials pressing for a civic agenda of economic and educational renewal. |
| Peter Milius |
For his editorials dissecting federal welfare reform legislation, directing attention to the problems of the poor and powerless. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walt Handelsman |
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| Chip Bok |
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| Jeff MacNelly |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alexander Zemlianichenko |
For his photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election. |
| Jeffrey L. Brown |
For his series of photographs chronicling an illegal immigrant's clandestine journey from Mexico to the United States. |
| Jon Kral |
For his photographs documenting the horrifying conditions in Venezuelan prisons. |
| Michele McDonald |
For her photographs of a woman with terminal breast cancer preparing for her death. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lisel Mueller |
Alive Together
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| Robert Pinsky |
The Figured Wheel
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| Laurie Sheck |
The Willow Grove
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Cynthia Ozick |
Fame & Folly
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| Richard Kluger |
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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| Samuel G. Freedman |
The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond
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Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Annie Wells |
For her dramatic photograph of a local firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters. |
| Corinne Dufka |
For her chilling photograph of the execution of a Liberian prisoner on the streets of Monrovia. |
| Alexander Zemlianichenko |
For his photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election. (Originally submitted in Feature Photography and returned by the Board to that category.) |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
[Spot News Reporting] For its powerful narrative coverage of the armed confrontation between police and philanthropist John DuPont following a murder at his estate. |
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The St. Petersburg Times
[Spot News Reporting] For its thorough and balanced reporting of the circumstances surrounding the shooting of a young black man by a white police officer and the rioting that followed. |
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Newsday
[Spot News Reporting] For its enterprising coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and its aftermath. |
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