Awards & Winners

1998 Pulitzer Prize

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1998 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Jared Diamond

Honored for : Guns, Germs, and Steel

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air
Steven Pinker How the Mind Works
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Philip Roth

Honored for : American Pastoral

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Nominee Nominated Work
Philip Roth American Pastoral
Don DeLillo Underworld
Robert Stone Bear and His Daughter: Stories
Pulitzer Prize for History

Edward J. Larson

Honored for : Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

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Nominee Nominated Work
J. Anthony Lukas Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
Rogers Smith Civic Ideals
Edward J. Larson Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Paula Vogel

Honored for : How I Learned to Drive

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paula Vogel How I Learned to Drive
Amy Freed Freedomland
Richard Greenberg Three Days of Rain
Pulitzer Prize for Music

Aaron Jay Kernis

Honored for : String Quartet No. 2

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Nominee Nominated Work
Aaron Jay Kernis String Quartet No. 2
John Adams Century Rolls
Yehudi Wyner Horntrio
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

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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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
The Seattle Times
For the work of Duff Wilson that disclosed how toxic waste from heavy industries was being recycled as fertilizer.
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Gary Cohn, 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.)

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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.
The St. Petersburg Times
For its investigation of the corrupt financial practices charged to the Rev. Henry Lyons, president of the National Baptist Convention.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

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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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.
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Jeff Nesmith, Russell Carollo

(For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

The New York Times

(For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

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.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Mike McAlary

(For reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

Linda Greenhouse

(For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Michiko Kakutani

(For her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Bernard L. Stein

(For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.)

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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.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

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Nominee Nominated Work
Steve Breen
Paul Conrad
Jeff MacNelly
Joel Pett
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

Clarence Williams

(For his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Katharine Graham

Honored for : Personal History

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sam Tanenhaus Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
Katharine Graham Personal History
James H Jones Alfred C. Kinsey
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Charles Wright

Honored for : Black Zodiac

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Nominee Nominated Work
Frank Bidart Desire
C. K. Williams Vigil
Charles Wright Black Zodiac
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

Martha Rial

(For her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

George Gershwin

(Awarded posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.)
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

Los Angeles Times

(For its coverage of a botched bank robbery, which led to a shootout with the police in North Hollywood.)

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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.)
Los Angeles Times
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.