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2003 Pulitzer Prize

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2003 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Jeffrey Eugenides

Honored for : Middlesex

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Nominee Nominated Work
Andrea Barrett Servants of the map
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Adam Haslett You Are Not a Stranger Here
Pulitzer Prize for History

Rick Atkinson

Honored for : An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943

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Nominee Nominated Work
Philip Dray At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Rereading Sex
Rick Atkinson An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943
Pulitzer Prize for Music

John Adams

Honored for : On the Transmigration of Souls

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Nominee Nominated Work
John Adams On the Transmigration of Souls
Steve Reich Three Tales
Paul Schoenfield Camp Songs
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Nilo Cruz

Honored for : Anna in the Tropics

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Nominee Nominated Work
Nilo Cruz Anna in the Tropics
Edward Albee The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Richard Greenberg Take Me Out
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Robert Caro

Honored for : Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Nicholas Dawidoff The Fly Swatter
Lewis Lockwood Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Samantha Power

Honored for : A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ellen Meloy The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit
Samantha Power \"A Problem from Hell\": America and the Age of Genocide
Steven Pinker The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

The Boston Globe

(For its courageous, comprehensive coverage of sexual abuse by priests, an effort that pierced secrecy, stirred local, national and international reaction and produced changes in the Roman Catholic Church.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
The Boston Globe
For its courageous, comprehensive coverage of sexual abuse by priests, an effort that pierced secrecy, stirred local, national and international reaction and produced changes in the Roman Catholic Church.
The Detroit News
For the work of Norman Sinclair, Ronald Hansen and Melvin Claxton that revealed dangerous defects and spurred changes in a criminal justice system that allowed lawbreakers to get away with everything from petty theft to murder.
Pensacola News Journal
For its uncommon courage in publishing stories that exposed a culture of corruption in Escambia County, Fla., and resulted in the indictment of four of five county commissioners.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Clifford J. Levy

(For his vivid, brilliantly written series 'Broken Homes' that exposed the abuse of mentally ill adults in state-regulated homes.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Clifford J. Levy
For his vivid, brilliantly written series 'Broken Homes' that exposed the abuse of mentally ill adults in state-regulated homes.
Alan Miller
For their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed \"The Widow Maker,\" that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category, where it was also entered.)
Kevin Sack
For their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed \"The Widow Maker,\" that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category, where it was also entered.)
The Seattle Times
Staff of The Seattle Times. For its outstanding blend of investigation and evocative storytelling that showed how a footloose Algerian boy evolved into a terrorist.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

Daniel Hertzberg, Geeta Anand, David Wessel, Mike Miller

Honored for : The Wall Street Journal
(For its clear, concise and comprehensive stories that illuminated the roots, significance and impact of corporate scandals in America. (Moved by the jury from the Public Service category.))

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Nominee Nominated Work
Daniel Hertzberg The Wall Street Journal
For its clear, concise and comprehensive stories that illuminated the roots, significance and impact of corporate scandals in America. (Moved by the jury from the Public Service category.)
Geeta Anand The Wall Street Journal
For its clear, concise and comprehensive stories that illuminated the roots, significance and impact of corporate scandals in America. (Moved by the jury from the Public Service category.)
David Wessel The Wall Street Journal
For its clear, concise and comprehensive stories that illuminated the roots, significance and impact of corporate scandals in America. (Moved by the jury from the Public Service category.)
Mike Miller The Wall Street Journal
For its clear, concise and comprehensive stories that illuminated the roots, significance and impact of corporate scandals in America. (Moved by the jury from the Public Service category.)
Jim Haner
For \"Justice Undone,\" their in-depth examination of the city's disturbingly low conviction rate in murder cases.
John B. O'Donnell
For \"Justice Undone,\" their in-depth examination of the city's disturbingly low conviction rate in murder cases.
Kimberly A.C. Wilson
For \"Justice Undone,\" their in-depth examination of the city's disturbingly low conviction rate in murder cases.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
For its painstaking explanation of chronic-wasting disease among deer in Wisconsin, and the impact of the affliction on the state's citizens, communities and culture.
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Kevin Sack, Alan Miller

(For their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed 'The Widow Maker,' that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alan Miller
For their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed \"The Widow Maker,\" that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots.
Kevin Sack
For their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed \"The Widow Maker,\" that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots.
Chicago Tribune
For its engrossing exploration of the fall of Arthur Andersen, a once proud accounting firm.
The New York Times
For its tenaciously reported and clearly written stories that exposed and explained corruption in corporate America.
Anne Hull
For \"Rim of the New World,\" her masterful accounts of young immigrants coming of age in the American South.
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

The Eagle-Tribune

(For its stories on the accidental drowning of four boys in the Merrimack River.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
The Eagle-Tribune
For its stories on the accidental drowning of four boys in the Merrimack River.
The Baltimore Sun Media Group The Baltimore Sun
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the sniper killings that terrorized the Washington-Baltimore region.
The Seattle Times
For its enterprising coverage of the many local connections to the ex-soldier and his teenage companion arrested in the sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., region.
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan

(For their exposure of horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Sullivan
For their exposure of horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people.
Mary Jordan
For their exposure of horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people.
Alix M. Freedman
For their remarkable reports revealing little-known ways that Saddam Hussein profited from the United Nations sanctions meant to punish him.
Steve Stecklow
For their remarkable reports revealing little-known ways that Saddam Hussein profited from the United Nations sanctions meant to punish him.
R.C. Longworth
For \"A Fraying Alliance,\" his perceptive series on emerging tensions between the United States and Europe.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

Sonia Nazario

(For 'Enrique's Journey,' her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sonia Nazario
For \"Enrique's Journey,\" her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.
Connie Schultz
For her moving story about a wrongfully convicted man who refused to succumb to anger or bitterness.
David Stabler
For his sensitive, sometimes surprising chronicle of a teenage prodigy's struggle with a musical talent that proved to be both a gift and a problem.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Colbert I. King

(For his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Colbert I. King
For his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom.
Edward Achorn
For his clear, tenacious call to action against government corruption in Rhode Island.
Mark Holmberg
For his thought provoking, strongly reported columns on a broad range of topics.
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

Diana K. Sugg

(For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Diana K. Sugg
For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.
Cameron W. Barr
For the extraordinary clarity, diversity and context in his ongoing coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
David Cay Johnston
For his stories that displayed exquisite command of complicated U.S. tax laws and of how corporations and invidiuals twist them to their advantage.
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Stephen Hunter

(For his authoritative film criticism that is both intellectually rewarding and a pleasure to read.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stephen Hunter
For his authoritative film criticism that is both intellectually rewarding and a pleasure to read.
John King
For his perceptive, passionate criticism of architecture and urban design and their impact on life in his city.
Nicolai Ouroussoff
For his commanding reviews and essays on architectural development and preservation in an ever-evolving city.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Cornelia Grumman

(For her powerful, freshly challenging editorials on reform of the death penalty.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert L. Pollock
For his clear, compelling editorials on the Food and Drug Administration's delay in approval of new cancer drugs.
Linda Valdez
For her passionate, persuasive editorials on illegal immigrants and on the state's flawed justice of the peace courts.
Cornelia Grumman
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

David Horsey

(For his perceptive cartoons executed with a distinctive style and sense of humor.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
David Horsey
For his perceptive cartoons executed with a distinctive style and sense of humor.
Rex Babin
For his arresting cartoons on a broad range of subjects, drawn with simple eye-catching imagery.
Clay Bennett
For his provocative portfolio of cartoons marked by clarity and simplicity.
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography

Rocky Mountain News

(For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rocky Mountain News
For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.
Carolyn Cole
For her extraordinarily intimate depiction of the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
The Washington Times
For its vivid capturing of the events and emotions stirred by the sniper killings in the Washington, D.C., region.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

Don Bartletti

(For his memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Don Bartletti
For his memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States.
Matt Black
For his striking images that documented the little known legacy of black sharecroppers who migrated to California's San Joaquin Valley during the Depression.
Brad Clift
For \"Heroin Town,\" his dramatic pictures that spotlighted heroin addiction in a Connecticut city and helped produce positive change.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Paul Muldoon

Honored for : Moy Sand and Gravel

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Muldoon Moy Sand and Gravel
Frank Bidart Music like Dirt
J.D. McClatchy Hazmat