2000 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jhumpa Lahiri |
Interpreter of Maladies
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| E. Annie Proulx |
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
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| Ha Jin |
Waiting: A Novel
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Pulitzer Prize for History
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Merrell |
Into the American Woods
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| Kevin Phillips |
The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America
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| David M. Kennedy |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Donald Margulies |
Dinner with Friends
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| Suzan-Lori Parks |
In the Blood
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| August Wilson |
King Hedley II
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lewis Spratlan |
Life is a Dream
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| Donald Martino |
Serenata Concertante
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| John Zorn |
contes de fees
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Washington Post
For the work of Katherine Boo that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city\u2019s group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms. |
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Chicago Tribune
For its extensive investigation of the failures of the legal justice system, documenting misconduct by prosecutors and inequities in death penalty cases, which led the governor of Illinois to suspend state executions. |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
For an investigative series, including an innovative presentation on its Web site, by Mark Fazlollah, Craig R. McCoy, Michael Matza and Clea Benson that revealed how Philadelphia police had routinely minimized and did not investigate many sexual assault claims, leading to reform of the system. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles J. Hanley |
For revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge. |
| Martha Mendoza |
For revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge. |
| Choe Sang-Hun |
For revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge. |
| Kurt Eichenwald |
For reporting that disclosed how pharmaceutical companies secretly paid doctors to test drugs on patients. |
| Gina Kolata |
For reporting that disclosed how pharmaceutical companies secretly paid doctors to test drugs on patients. |
| Sam Roe |
For a series of articles that cited a 50-year pattern of misconduct by the American government and the beryllium industry in the production of metal used in nuclear bombs, which resulted in death and injury to dozens of workers, leading to government investigations and safety reforms. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eric Newhouse |
For his vivid examination of alcohol abuse and the problems it creates in the community. |
| Brent Walth |
For their series on how politics influences pesticide regulation. |
| Alex Pulaski |
For their series on how politics influences pesticide regulation. |
| Michael Winerip |
For his profile of a mentally ill man who pushed a woman to her death before an onrushing subway train, a case used by the writer for a broad overview of deficiencies in the mental health care system. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Chris Adams |
The Wall Street Journal
For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future. |
| Carla Robbins |
The Wall Street Journal
For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future. |
| Thomas E. Ricks |
The Wall Street Journal
For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future. |
| Anne Hull |
For her quietly powerful stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab shacks, in pursuit of a better life. |
| Cornelia Grumman |
For their series on the growing lucrative privatization of jails and foster programs for troubled youths. |
| David Jackson |
For their series on the growing lucrative privatization of jails and foster programs for troubled youths. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Denver Post
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School. |
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The News & Observer
For its comprehensive coverage of the destruction in the state caused by Hurricane Floyd. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mark Schoofs |
For his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa. |
| Associated Press |
For its skillful and courageous coverage of the Russian attack on Chechnya. |
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The Washington Post
For its compelling, in-depth coverage of the war in Kosovo. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| J. R. Moehringer |
For his portrait of Gee\u2019s Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it. |
| David Finkel |
For his moving account of a woman forced to choose between staying with her family in a Macedonian refugee camp, or leaving to marry a man in France. |
| Anne Hull |
For her quietly powerful stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab shacks, in pursuit of a better life. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paul Gigot |
For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government. |
| Michael Kelly |
For his enlightening and entertaining observations on cultural and political issues. |
| Colbert I. King |
For his caring, persuasive columns addressing social and urban problems. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| George Dohrmann |
For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men\u2019s basketball program at the University of Minnesota. |
| Robert O'Harrow, Jr. |
For his innovative stories on threats to personal privacy in the digital age. |
| David Cay Johnston |
For his lucid coverage of problems resulting from the reorganization of the Internal Revenue Service. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Henry Allen |
For his fresh and authoritative writing on photography. |
| Michael Kimmelman |
For his gracefully-written observations on art and artists. |
| Andrew Sarris |
For his informed and enlightening film criticism. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Bersia |
For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations. |
| Fred Hiatt |
For his authoritative editorials on the crisis in Kosovo. |
| Philip Kennicott |
For his carefully reasoned editorial campaign against the passage of a proposition to legally allow Missouri residents to carry concealed weapons. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Joel Pett |
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| Clay Bennett |
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| Robert Ariail |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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Rocky Mountain News
For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School. |
| Lacy Atkins |
For her exuberant portrait of U.S. athlete Brandi Chastain after she scored the winning goal of the Women's World Cup Soccer Final. |
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The Seattle Times
For its photos of the rioting that disrupted the annual conference of the World Trade Organization. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Carol Guzy |
For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees. |
| Michael Williamson |
For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees. |
| Lucian Perkins |
For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees. |
| Nuri Vallbona |
For their photographs of Liberty City, a neighborhood crippled by drugs and violence, which detail the community's effort to reclaim the area. |
| Candace Barbot |
For their photographs of Liberty City, a neighborhood crippled by drugs and violence, which detail the community's effort to reclaim the area. |
| Telegram & Gazette |
For its moving photographs of the grief and devastation that followed a local fire that killed six firefighters. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stacy Schiff |
Vera
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| Dava Sobel |
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
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| Bobbie Ann Mason |
Clear Springs
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Rodney Jones |
Elegy for the Southern Drawl
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| Adrienne Rich |
Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998
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| C. K. Williams |
Repair
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Brian Greene |
The Elegant Universe
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| John W. Dower |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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| Scott Weidensaul |
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
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