Awards & Winners

1997 Pulitzer Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Check awards winners of 1997 Pulitzer Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1997 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Steven Millhauser

Honored for : Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ursula K. Le Guin Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
Joanna Scott The Manikin
Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Pulitzer Prize for History

Jack N. Rakove

Honored for : Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mary Beth Norton Founding Mothers & Fathers
Stephen Nissenbaum The Battle for Christmas
Jack N. Rakove Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Frank McCourt

Honored for : Angela's Ashes

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kim Barnes In the Wilderness
Hershel Parker Herman Melville: A Biography Volume 1, 1819-1851
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes
Pulitzer Prize for Music

Wynton Marsalis

Honored for : Blood on the Fields (feat. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Wynton Marsalis Blood on the Fields (feat. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra)
John Musto Dove Sta Amore
Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski Passacaglia Immaginaria
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

The Times-Picayune

(For its comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish.)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
The Times-Picayune
For its comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish.
Los Angeles Times
For its probe of murder cases in Los Angeles County, which revealed inefficiency and mismanagement in the justice system.
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson, Alex Tizon

(For their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms.)

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.
The Boston Globe
For its expose of abuse of disability benefits by retired public employees, prompting reform of the Massachusetts pension system.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism

Michael Vitez, Ron Cortes, April Saul

(For a series on the choices that confronted critically-ill patients who sought to die with dignity.)

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.
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

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.)

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.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

John F. Burns

(For his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban.)

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.
Chicago Tribune
For its global examination of overpopulation illustrated by struggling families who continue to bear children they cannot afford.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

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.)

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.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Eileen McNamara

(For her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues.)

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.
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

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.)

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.
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Tim Page

(For his lucid and illuminating music 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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Michael Gartner

(For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community.)

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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Walt Handelsman
Chip Bok
Jeff MacNelly
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

Alexander Zemlianichenko

(For his photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election.)

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.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Lisel Mueller

Honored for : Alive Together

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lisel Mueller Alive Together
Robert Pinsky The Figured Wheel
Laurie Sheck The Willow Grove
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Richard Kluger

Honored for : Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Cynthia Ozick Fame & Folly
Richard Kluger Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Samuel G. Freedman The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

Annie Wells

(For her dramatic photograph of a local firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters.)

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.)
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

Newsday

([Spot News Reporting] For its enterprising coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and its aftermath.)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
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.
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.
Newsday
[Spot News Reporting] For its enterprising coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and its aftermath.