2007 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Powers |
The Echo Maker
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| Cormac McCarthy |
The Road
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| Alice McDermott |
After This
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James T. Campbell |
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
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| Nathaniel Philbrick |
Mayflower
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| Gene Roberts |
The Race Beat
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| Hank Klibanoff |
The Race Beat
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Lindsay-Abaire |
Rabbit Hole
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| Rinde Eckert |
Orpheus X
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| Eisa Davis |
Bulrusher
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| Quiara Alegría Hudes |
Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ornette Coleman |
Sound Grammar
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| Elliot Goldenthal |
Grendel
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| Augusta Read Thomas |
Astral Canticle
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Wall Street Journal
For its creative and comprehensive probe into backdated stock options for business executives that triggered investigations, the ouster of top officials and widespread change in corporate America. |
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The Washington Post
For its extensive examination of waste and abuse in the nation\u2019s farm subsidy system, prodding Congress to address the need for fundamental reform. |
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The Birmingham News
For the work of Brett Blackledge that exposed cronyism and corruption in the state's two-year college system, resulting in the dismissal of the chancellor and other corrective action. (Moved by the Board to the Investigative Reporting category.) |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Brett Blackledge |
For his exposure of cronyism and corruption in the state's two-year college system, resulting in the dismissal of the chancellor and other corrective action. |
| Ken Armstrong |
For their series that exposed how the improper sealing of hundreds of lawsuits hid information vital to public safety, and resulted in remedial judicial steps. |
| Justin Mayo |
For their series that exposed how the improper sealing of hundreds of lawsuits hid information vital to public safety, and resulted in remedial judicial steps. |
| Steve Miletich |
For their series that exposed how the improper sealing of hundreds of lawsuits hid information vital to public safety, and resulted in remedial judicial steps. |
| Michael J. Berens |
For their probe of sexual misconduct by health-care professionals that included creation of an extensive online database of offenders and caused a tightening of state regulation. |
| Julia Sommerfeld |
For their probe of sexual misconduct by health-care professionals that included creation of an extensive online database of offenders and caused a tightening of state regulation. |
| Carol Ostrom |
For their probe of sexual misconduct by health-care professionals that included creation of an extensive online database of offenders and caused a tightening of state regulation. |
| Lisa Chedekel |
For their in-depth reports on suicide among American soldiers in Iraq, leading to congressional and military action to address mental health problems raised in the stories. |
| Matthew Kauffman |
For their in-depth reports on suicide among American soldiers in Iraq, leading to congressional and military action to address mental health problems raised in the stories. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kenneth R. Weiss |
For their richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials. |
| Rick Loomis |
For their richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials. |
| Usha Lee McFarling |
For their richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials. |
| Joanne Kimberlin |
For their provocative examination of the United States' increasing reliance on private military personnel. |
| Bill Sizemore |
For their provocative examination of the United States' increasing reliance on private military personnel. |
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The New York Times
For its multi-faceted explanation of the growing menace of diabetes, especially among the poor and vulnerable, that elicited a range of public and private responses. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Debbie Cenziper |
For reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions. |
| Fred Schulte |
For their reports, in print and online, about abuses under an archaic state law that threatened to turn hundreds out of their homes. |
| June Arney |
For their reports, in print and online, about abuses under an archaic state law that threatened to turn hundreds out of their homes. |
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The Boston Globe
For its well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulous debt collectors, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charlie Savage |
For his revelations that President Bush often used \"signing statements\" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws. |
| Maurice Possley |
For their investigation of a 1989 execution in Texas that strongly suggests an innocent man was killed by lethal injection. |
| Steve Mills |
For their investigation of a 1989 execution in Texas that strongly suggests an innocent man was killed by lethal injection. |
| Les Zaitz |
For their disclosure of mismanagement and other abuses in federally-subsidized programs for disabled workers, stirring congressional action. |
| Jeff Kosseff |
For their disclosure of mismanagement and other abuses in federally-subsidized programs for disabled workers, stirring congressional action. |
| Bryan Denson |
For their disclosure of mismanagement and other abuses in federally-subsidized programs for disabled workers, stirring congressional action. |
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Wall Street Journal
For its sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution. |
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Los Angeles Times
For its courageous chronicling of Iraq's descent into what the newspaper labeled "civil war." |
| Anthony Shadid |
For his vivid and insightful coverage of conflict in Lebanon that wove together frontline dispatches, personal history and analysis. |
| Jane Spencer |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Andrea Elliott |
For her intimate, richly textured portrait of an immigrant imam striving to find his way and serve his faithful in America. |
| Christopher Goffard |
For his fresh and compelling stories about a young public defender and his daily challenges. |
| Inara Verzemnieks |
For her witty and perceptive portfolio of features on an array of everyday topics. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Cynthia Tucker |
For her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community. |
| Ruth Marcus |
For her intelligent and incisive commentary on a range of subjects, using a voice that can be serious or playful. |
| Joe Nocera |
For his piercing, authoritative columns on business, often spotlighting misdeeds and flaws in corporate culture. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jonathan Gold |
For his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater. |
| Christopher Knight |
For his pieces on art that reflect meticulous reporting, aesthetic judgment and authoritative voice. |
| Mark Swed |
For his passionate music criticism, marked by resonant writing and an ability to give life to the people behind a performance. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jane Healy |
For her persuasive heavily reported editorials on development projects that imperiled Florida's wetlands and wildlife |
| Sebastian Mallaby |
For his eloquent, rigorously researched editorials on rising inequality in America. |
| Arthur Browne |
For its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation. |
| Beverly Weintraub |
For its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation. |
| Heidi Evans |
For its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walt Handelsman |
For his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation. |
| Nick Anderson |
For his pungent cartoons on an array of issues, and for his bold use of animation. |
| Mike Thompson |
For his compelling cartoons that rely on rich detail and deft caricature to make their point and for using animation to widen his impact. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Oded Balilty |
For his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank. |
| Associated Press |
For its breathtaking images of brutal warfare between Israel and Hezbollah. |
| Michael Bryant |
For his poignant photographs of the devastating injury to Barbaro, the famed racehorse. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
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| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Renée C. Byer |
For her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer. |
| Mary F. Calvert |
For her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth. |
| Gary Coronado |
For his vivid images of Central Americans who, desperate to enter America illegally, risk their lives leaping on Mexican freight trains rumbling northward. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Debby Applegate |
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
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| Arthur H. Cash |
John Wilkes
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| David Nasaw |
Andrew Carnegie
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Natasha Trethewey |
Native Guard
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| Martín Espada |
The Republic of Poetry
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| David Wojahn |
Interrogation Palace
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lawrence Wright |
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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| Pete Earley |
Crazy
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| Thomas E. Ricks |
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
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Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
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