1998 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jared Diamond |
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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| Jon Krakauer |
Into Thin Air
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| Steven Pinker |
How the Mind Works
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Philip Roth |
American Pastoral
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| Don DeLillo |
Underworld
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| Robert Stone |
Bear and His Daughter: Stories
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| J. Anthony Lukas |
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
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| Rogers Smith |
Civic Ideals
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| Edward J. Larson |
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paula Vogel |
How I Learned to Drive
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| Amy Freed |
Freedomland
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| Richard Greenberg |
Three Days of Rain
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Aaron Jay Kernis |
String Quartet No. 2
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| John Adams |
Century Rolls
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| Yehudi Wyner |
Horntrio
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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Grand Forks Herald
For its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself. |
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The Seattle Times
For the work of Duff Wilson that disclosed how toxic waste from heavy industries was being recycled as fertilizer. |
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Los Angeles Times
For the work of Sonia Nazario, reporter and Clarence Williams, photographer, that chronicled the tragic plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gary Cohn |
For their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled. |
| Will Englund |
For their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled. |
| Lisa Getter |
For their reporting that disclosed how hundreds of local police officers routinely served as unnecessary witnesses in misdemeanor arrests to gain overtime pay. |
| Jeff Leen |
For their reporting that disclosed how hundreds of local police officers routinely served as unnecessary witnesses in misdemeanor arrests to gain overtime pay. |
| Gail Epstein |
For their reporting that disclosed how hundreds of local police officers routinely served as unnecessary witnesses in misdemeanor arrests to gain overtime pay. |
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The St. Petersburg Times
For its investigation of the corrupt financial practices charged to the Rev. Henry Lyons, president of the National Baptist Convention. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Barstow |
For his narrative portrait of the legal struggle against the tobacco industry, centered on the personalities who were key in reaching a tentative settlement of billions of dollars. |
| Linda Greenhouse |
For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court. |
| Paul Salopek |
For his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jeff Nesmith |
For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms. |
| Russell Carollo |
For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms. |
| Douglas Frantz |
For his dogged reporting on the Church of Scientology, particularly its questionable relationship with the Internal Revenue Service, which granted the organization tax-exempt status. |
| David Wood |
For his fresh and revealing coverage of the U.S. military and the challenges facing it in the post-Cold War world. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The New York Times
For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
For his compelling comprehensive and compassionate reporting from Africa and Asia. |
| John Pomfret |
For his series, written under difficult conditions, on Laurent Kabila's brutal rise to power in Zaire. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas French |
For his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders. |
| J. R. Moehringer |
For \"The Champ,\" an extraordinary documentation of a heavyweight boxer's glory days and his fall. |
| Steve Giegerich |
For his startling and original story about a bond that formed between four medical students and the cadaver they studied. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mike McAlary |
For his coverage of the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn station house. |
| Bob Greene |
For his columns devoted to local children whose lives were mishandled by the welfare and judicial systems. |
| Robert J. Samuelson |
For his knowledgeable and analytical columns on a wide variety of national subjects. |
| Patricia Smith |
For her lyrical and evocative columns on an assortment of urban topics. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Keith Bradsher |
[Beat Reporting] For his reporting that disclosed safety and environmental problems posed by sport utility vehicles and other light trucks. |
| Jason DeParle |
[Beat Reporting] For his coverage of the successes and frustrations of the national effort to reform welfare. |
| Linda Greenhouse |
[Beat Reporting] For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court. |
| Laurie Garrett |
[Beat Reporting] For her reporting on the public health care crisis in the regions of the former Soviet Union. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michiko Kakutani |
For her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature |
| Dorothy Rabinowitz |
For her tough-minded, critical columns on television and its place in politics and culture. |
| Peter Rainer |
For his versatile and perceptive writing about film. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bernard L. Stein |
For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents. |
| George B. Pyle |
For his insightful editorials on a variety of local issues. |
| Clint Talbott |
For his powerful series of editorials on the legal ordeal of a rape victim who took her case to trial. (Moved by the jury from the Commentary category.) |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steve Breen |
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| Paul Conrad |
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| Jeff MacNelly |
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| Joel Pett |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Clarence Williams |
For his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs. |
| Allan Detrich |
For his revealing photographic account of a secret interstate network of individuals who aid parents and children fleeing the threat of sexual abuse. |
| Joseph V. Stefanchik |
For his gripping photographs depicting the effects of war and land mines in Angola. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sam Tanenhaus |
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
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| Katharine Graham |
Personal History
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| James H Jones |
Alfred C. Kinsey
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Frank Bidart |
Desire
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| C. K. Williams |
Vigil
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| Charles Wright |
Black Zodiac
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Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Martha Rial |
For her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi. |
| Jean-Marc Bouju |
For his chilling sequence of seven photographs in Zaire depicting rebel soldiers beating and then executing a man believed to be a member of Mobuto Sese Sekos' presidential guard. |
| Forum Communications |
Grand Forks Herald
For its committed coverage of the severe flooding that devastated their community. |
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Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Dennis Harrigan |
For his coverage of a shooting spree that left five dead, including his newspaper's managing editor. |
| Mike McAlary |
For reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse. (Moved by the Board to the Commentary category.) |
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Los Angeles Times
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood. |
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