2005 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ha Jin |
War Trash
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| Marilynne Robinson |
Gilead
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| Ward Just |
An Unfinished Season
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kevin Boyle |
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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| Michael O'Brien |
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810\u20131860
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| David Hackett Fischer |
Washington's Crossing
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walt Bogdanich |
For his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings. |
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The Washington Post
For its relentless, unflinching chronicle of abuses by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. |
| Steve Suo |
For their groundbreaking reports on the failure to curtail the growing illicit use of methamphetamines. |
| Erin Hoover Barnett |
For their groundbreaking reports on the failure to curtail the growing illicit use of methamphetamines. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Patrick Shanley |
Doubt: A Parable
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| Will Eno |
Thom Pain (based on nothing)
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| Sarah Ruhl |
The Clean House
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steven Stucky |
Second Concerto for Orchestra
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| Steve Reich |
You Are
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| Elliott Carter |
Dialogues
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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Los Angeles Times
For its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital. |
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Pensacola News Journal
For its valiant and innovative coverage, in the newspaper and online, of the coastal devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan. |
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The Orange County Register
For its tenacious investigation into the widespread poisoning of children by lead-tainted Mexican candy, spurring remedial action. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Diana B. Henriques |
For her revelations that thousands of vulnerable American soldiers were exploited by some insurance companies, investment firms and lenders. |
| Clark Kauffman |
For his exposure of glaring injustice in the handling of traffic tickets by public officials. |
| Nigel Jaquiss |
For his investigation exposing former governor Neil Goldschmidt's long concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gareth Cook |
For explaining, with clarity and humanity, the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research. |
| William Broad |
For their aggressive reporting and lucid writing that cast light on the shadowy process of nuclear proliferation. |
| David E. Sanger |
For their aggressive reporting and lucid writing that cast light on the shadowy process of nuclear proliferation. |
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Newsday
For its serious, energetic and substantive series examining three decades of hip-hop music in American life. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Star-Ledger
For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey\u2019s governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover. |
| Charlotte Sun |
For its heroic coverage of Hurricane Charley after it destroyed the homes of employees and cut the paper\u2019s power supply and phone service. |
| Tribune Company |
Sun-Sentinel
For its enterprising and wide-ranging coverage, under difficult conditions, of four hurricanes that battered Florida over a six-week span. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kim Murphy |
For her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia\u2019s struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work. |
| Dele Olojede |
For his fresh, haunting look at Rwanda a decade after rape and genocidal slaughter had ravaged the Tutsi tribe. |
| Borzou Daragahi |
For his vivid, deeply reported stories on the impact of the Iraq war on citizens and soldiers alike. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kim Murphy |
For her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia\u2019s struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work. |
| Dele Olojede |
For his fresh, haunting look at Rwanda a decade after rape and genocidal slaughter had ravaged the Tutsi tribe. |
| Borzou Daragahi |
For his vivid, deeply reported stories on the impact of the Iraq war on citizens and soldiers alike. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Julia Keller |
For her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Illinois. |
| Robin Gaby Fisher |
For her exhaustive look inside the lives of students at an alternative high school, shattering stereotypes and delineating memorable characters. |
| Anne Hull |
For her clear, sensitive, tirelessly reported stories on what it means to be young and gay in modern America. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Connie Schultz |
For her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged. |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
For his powerful columns that portrayed suffering among the developing world's often forgotten people and stirred action. |
| Tommy Tomlinson |
For his provocative columns with a wide-ranging human touch. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Amy Dockser Marcus |
For her masterly stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors. |
| Ronald Brownstein |
For the clarity, consistency and quality of his political reporting during a presidential election year. |
| Dana Priest |
For her determined, deeply sourced and insightful coverage of United States intelligence operations. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Joe Morgenstern |
For his reviews that elucidated the strengths and weaknesses of film with rare insight, authority and wit. |
| Frank Rich |
For boldly exploring the influence of popular culture on American politics and society. |
| Carlin Romano |
For bringing new vitality to the classic essay across a formidable array of topics. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tom Philp |
For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California's flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action. |
| Sebastian Mallaby |
For his persistent and passionate editorials on the tragedy in the Darfur region of the Sudan. |
| David Yarnold |
For their forceful editorial campaign against unethical behavior in city hall that resulted in significant change. |
| Daniel Vasquez |
For their forceful editorial campaign against unethical behavior in city hall that resulted in significant change. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Nick Anderson |
For his unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages. |
| Garry Trudeau |
For his provocative \u201CDoonesbury\u201D cartoons that used realistic characters to dramatize social and political issues. |
| Don Wright |
For his portfolio of wry but hard hitting cartoons that addressed a wide range of issues with unflinching honesty. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Associated Press |
For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities. |
| Arko Datta |
For his picture that captured a woman's anguish in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami. |
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The Palm Beach Post
For its imaginative and panoramic coverage of hurricanes that struck Florida. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Deanne Fitzmaurice |
For her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion. |
| Jim Gehrz |
For his poignant portrait of a woman soldier's struggle to recover from grave shrapnel wounds to her head. |
| Luis Sinco |
For his iconic photograph of an exhausted U.S. Marine's face after a daylong battle in Iraq. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Souder |
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America
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| Stephen Greenblatt |
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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| Mark Stevens |
De Kooning: An American Master
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| Annalyn Swan |
De Kooning: An American Master
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ted Kooser |
Delights & Shadows
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| Brigit Pegeen Kelly |
The Orchard
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| William Matthews |
Search Party
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Luis Alberto Urrea |
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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| Steve Coll |
Ghost Wars
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| Suketu Mehta |
Maximum City
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