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2000 Pulitzer Prize

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2000 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Jhumpa Lahiri

Honored for : Interpreter of Maladies

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
E. Annie Proulx Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Ha Jin Waiting: A Novel
Pulitzer Prize for History

David M. Kennedy

Honored for : Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

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Nominee Nominated Work
James Merrell Into the American Woods
Kevin Phillips The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America
David M. Kennedy Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Donald Margulies

Honored for : Dinner with Friends

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Nominee Nominated Work
Donald Margulies Dinner with Friends
Suzan-Lori Parks In the Blood
August Wilson King Hedley II
Pulitzer Prize for Music

Lewis Spratlan

Honored for : Life is a Dream

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lewis Spratlan Life is a Dream
Donald Martino Serenata Concertante
John Zorn contes de fees
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Katherine Boo

Honored for : The Washington Post
(For the work of Katherine Boo that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city's group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
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.
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, 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.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

Eric Newhouse

(For his vivid examination of alcohol abuse and the problems it creates in the community.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Chris Adams, Carla Robbins, Thomas E. Ricks

Honored for : 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.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

The Denver Post

(For its coverage of the massacre at the Columbine High School.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
The Denver Post
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.
The News & Observer
For its comprehensive coverage of the destruction in the state caused by Hurricane Floyd.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Mark Schoofs

(For his provocative and enlightening series on the AIDS crisis in Africa.)

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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.
The Washington Post
For its compelling, in-depth coverage of the war in Kosovo.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

J. R. Moehringer

(For his portrait of Gee's Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Paul Gigot

(For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

George Dohrmann

(For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Henry Allen

(For his fresh and authoritative writing on photography.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

John Bersia

(For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joel Pett
Clay Bennett
Robert Ariail
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography

Rocky Mountain News

(For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
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.
The Seattle Times
For its photos of the rioting that disrupted the annual conference of the World Trade Organization.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

Michael Williamson, Lucian Perkins, Carol Guzy

(For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees.)

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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.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Stacy Schiff

Honored for : Vera

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stacy Schiff Vera
Dava Sobel Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Bobbie Ann Mason Clear Springs
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

C. K. Williams

Honored for : Repair

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rodney Jones Elegy for the Southern Drawl
Adrienne Rich Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998
C. K. Williams Repair
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

John W. Dower

Honored for : Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

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Nominee Nominated Work
Brian Greene The Elegant Universe
John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Scott Weidensaul Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds