2004 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Susan Choi |
American woman
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| Edward P. Jones |
The Known World
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| Marianne Wiggins |
Evidence of Things Unseen
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Maraniss |
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
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| Daniel Okrent |
Great Fortune
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| Steven Hahn |
A Nation Under Our Feet
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Doug Wright |
I Am My Own Wife
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| Tracy Letts |
Man from Nebraska
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| Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros |
Omnium Gatherum
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| Theresa Rebeck |
Omnium Gatherum
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paul Moravec |
Tempest Fantasy
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| Steve Reich |
Cello Counterpoint
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| Peter Lieberson |
Piano Concerto No. 3
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The New York Times
For the work of David Barstow and Lowell Bergman that relentlessly examined death and injury among American workers and exposed employers who break basic safety rules. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category, where it was also entered.) |
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The Courier-Journal
For its vivid portrayal of how delays in the state's criminal justice system harmed victims and defendants alike, a project that spurred remedial action. |
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The Providence Journal
For its comprehensive coverage of the causes and consequences of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people and spread anguish across America's smallest state. |
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The Seattle Times
For the work of Christine Willmsen and Maureen O'Hagan that revealed sexual misconduct by male coaches who preyed on female students and escaped discipline or prosecution. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael D. Sallah |
For their powerful series on atrocities by Tiger Force, an elite U.S. Army platoon, during the Vietnam War. |
| Joe Mahr |
For their powerful series on atrocities by Tiger Force, an elite U.S. Army platoon, during the Vietnam War. |
| Mitch Weiss |
For their powerful series on atrocities by Tiger Force, an elite U.S. Army platoon, during the Vietnam War. |
| David Ottaway |
For their detailed stories that revealed questionable practices by a respected environmental organization and that produced sweeping reforms. |
| Joe Stephens |
For their detailed stories that revealed questionable practices by a respected environmental organization and that produced sweeping reforms. |
| David Barstow |
For their relentless examination of death and injury among American workers and exposure of employers who break basic safety rules. (Moved by the Board to the Public Service category, where it was also entered.) |
| Lowell Bergman |
For their relentless examination of death and injury among American workers and exposure of employers who break basic safety rules. (Moved by the Board to the Public Service category, where it was also entered.) |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kevin Helliker |
For their groundbreaking examination of aneurysms, an often overlooked medical condition that kills thousands of Americans each year. |
| Thomas M. Burton |
For their groundbreaking examination of aneurysms, an often overlooked medical condition that kills thousands of Americans each year. |
| Erika Niedowski |
For her illuminating account of how one of America's best hospitals let an infant die of a preventable condition and how the devastated mother joined with the hospital to spare other families such heartache. |
| Bernard Wolfson |
For their ambitious exploration of the quality of care at 26 local hospitals and the creation of a \"report card\" to help consumers make medical decisions. |
| William Heisel |
For their ambitious exploration of the quality of care at 26 local hospitals and the creation of a \"report card\" to help consumers make medical decisions. |
| Chris Knap |
For their ambitious exploration of the quality of care at 26 local hospitals and the creation of a \"report card\" to help consumers make medical decisions. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Scott Kilman |
For their haunting stories that shed new light on starvation in Africa and prompted international agencies to rethink their policies. |
| Anthony Shadid |
For his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended. |
| David Zucchino |
For his resourceful, sweeping and valorous reports that gave readers a rare, close-up view of combat as American soldiers invaded Iraq. |
| Roger Thurow |
For their haunting stories that shed new light on starvation in Africa and prompted international agencies to rethink their policies. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Leonard Pitts |
For his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues. |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
For his columns that, through rigorous reporting and powerful writing, often gave voice to forgotten people trapped in misery. |
| Cynthia Tucker |
For her forceful, persuasive columns that confronted sacred cows and hot topics with unswerving candor. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Daniel Golden |
For his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities. |
| Ellen Barry |
For her fresh, thoroughly reported and powerfully written stories about neglected people with mental health problems in Massachusetts. |
| Barton Gellman |
For his authoritative and provocative coverage of the search for forbidden weapons in Iraq. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dan Neil |
For his one-of-a-kind reviews of automobiles, blending technical expertise with offbeat humor and astute cultural observations. |
| Nicolai Ouroussoff |
For his versatile architectural criticism that stretched from his hometown's new Disney Hall to the rubble in Baghdad, where he pondered the ancient city's resurrection. |
| Inga Saffron |
For her passionate and insightful architectural criticism that, through clear, elegant writing, was as accessible to the ordinary reader as it was to the expert. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bill Stall |
For his incisive editorials that analyzed California's troubled state government, prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues. |
| Andrew Malcolm |
For his refreshing, richly textured editorials that illuminated a variety of life situations. |
| Andrés Martinez |
For his exhaustively researched series of editorials that exposed the harmful global effects of American agricultural trade policy. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Matt Davies |
For his piercing cartoons on an array of topics, drawn with a fresh, original style. |
| Steve Sack |
For his vivid, distinctive cartoons that used creative metaphors to achieve high-impact results. |
| Garry Trudeau |
For his inventive \"Doonesbury\" cartoons that were often ahead of the headlines and used deft writing to enhance impact. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Leeson |
For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq. |
| Cheryl Diaz Meyer |
For their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq. |
| Associated Press |
For its evocative, panoramic portrayal of the war in Iraq. |
| Chris Hondros |
For his powerful and courageous coverage of the bloody upheaval in Liberia (moved by the jury from the Feature Photography category). |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Carolyn Cole |
For her cohesive, behind-the-scenes look at the effects of civil war in Liberia, with special attention to innocent citizens caught in the conflict. |
| Pauline Lubens |
For their imaginative and sophisticated coverage of California's extraordinary recall election. |
| Dai Sugano |
For their imaginative and sophisticated coverage of California's extraordinary recall election. |
| Patrick Tehan |
For their imaginative and sophisticated coverage of California's extraordinary recall election. |
| Damir Sagolj |
For his unforgettable picture of a burly American medic in Iraq cuddling a child whose mother had just been killed in a crossfire (moved by the jury from the Breaking News Photography category). |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Taubman |
Khrushchev
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| James Gleick |
Isaac Newton
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| Hayden Herrera |
Arshile Gorky
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Henri Cole |
Middle Earth
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| Heather McHugh |
Eyeshot
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| Franz Wright |
Walking to Martha's Vineyard
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Anne Applebaum |
Gulag: A History
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| Dana Priest |
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military
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| Steven Nadler |
Rembrandt's Jews
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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Los Angeles Times
For its compelling and comprehensive coverage of the massive wildfires that imperiled a populated region of southern California. |
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Newsday
For its enterprising coverage of the summertime blackout that stretched over a vast area of the United States and cut the paper's own power supply as deadlines loomed. |
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The Miami Herald
For its immediate and distinctive search for the cause of the Columbia space shuttle disaster. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| S. Lynne Walker |
For her candid, in-depth look at how Mexican immigration transformed an all-white Midwestern town. |
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The Wall Street Journal
For its masterly, richly detailed stories on how hidden decision-makers make life-and-death choices about who gets health care in America. |
| John Corrigan |
Los Angeles Times
For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries. |
| Rick Wartzman |
Los Angeles Times
For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries. |
| Nancy Cleeland |
Los Angeles Times
For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries. |
| Abigail Goldman |
Los Angeles Times
For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries. |
| Tyler Marshall |
Los Angeles Times
For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries. |
| Evelyn Iritani |
Los Angeles Times
For its engrossing examination of the tactics that have made Wal-Mart the largest company in the world with cascading effects across American towns and developing countries. |
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