2008 Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Denis Johnson |
Tree of Smoke
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| Lore Segal |
Shakespeare's Kitchen
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| Junot Díaz |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tracy Letts |
August: Osage County
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| David Henry Hwang |
Yellow Face
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| Christopher Shinn |
Dying City
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Pulitzer Prize for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Dallek |
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
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| David Halberstam |
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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| Daniel Walker Howe |
What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Matteson |
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
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| Martin Duberman |
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
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| Zachary Leader |
The Life of Kingsley Amis
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ellen Bryant Voigt |
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
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| Robert Hass |
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005
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| Philip Schultz |
Failure
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ellen Bryant Voigt |
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
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| Robert Hass |
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005
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| Philip Schultz |
Failure
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alex Ross |
The Rest Is Noise
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| Allan M. Brandt |
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America
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| Saul Friedländer |
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
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Pulitzer Prize for Music
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Lang |
The Little Match Girl Passion
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| Stephen Hartke |
Meanwhile - Incidental Music To Imaginary Puppet Plays
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| Roberto Sierra |
Concerto for Viola
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Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steve Fainaru |
For his heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces. |
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The New York Times
For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of America's military efforts to reduce sectarian violence in Iraq. |
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The Wall Street Journal
For its in-depth reports on the dismantling of democracy in Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Putin. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Amy Harmon |
For her striking examination of the dilemmas and ethical issues that accompany DNA testing, using human stories to sharpen her reports. |
| Beth Daley |
For her evocative exploration of how global warming affects New Englanders, from ice fishermen to blueberry farmers. |
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jo Becker |
For their lucid exploration of Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy. |
| Barton Gellman |
For their lucid exploration of Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy. |
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The New York Times
For its stories about CIA interrogation techniques that critics condemned as torture, stirring debate on the legal and moral limits of American action against terrorism. |
| Howard Witt |
For his wide ranging examination of complicated racial issues in America, from the courtroom to the schoolyard. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steven Pearlstein |
For his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity. |
| Regina Brett |
For her passionate columns on alienated teenagers in a dangerous city neighborhood. |
| John Kass |
For his hard-hitting columns on the abuse of local political power and a lively range of topics in a colorful city. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Adrees Latif |
For his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar. |
| Mahmud Hams |
For his picture of a missile, caught in mid-air, as it falls on a target in the Gaza Strip while young Palestinians scramble for safety. |
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Los Angeles Times
For its powerful and often unpredictable photos that captured wildfires devastating California. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Preston Gannaway |
For her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent's terminal illness. |
| David Guttenfelder |
For his harrowing portfolio of Vietnamese children afflicted by the toxic legacy of Agent Orange, three decades after the Vietnam War ended. |
| Mona Reeder |
For her memorable pictures of disadvantaged Texans hidden amid the state's economic abundance. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
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The Washington Post
For the work of Dana Priest, Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials. |
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The Charlotte Observer
For its illuminating examination of the mortgage and housing crisis in the newspaper\u2019s community and state, resulting in federal probes and changes in a major lender\u2019s practices. |
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Newsday
For its comprehensive investigation into the hazardous gap between a New York railroad\u2019s trains and its boarding platforms, spotlighting individual injuries and triggering a multi-million-dollar remedy by the railway. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walt Bogdanich |
For their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials. |
| Jake Hooker |
For their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials. |
| Miles Moffeit |
For their reports on how destruction of evidence in criminal cases across the nation can free the guilty and convict the innocent, prompting official efforts to correct breakdowns. |
| Susan Greene |
For their reports on how destruction of evidence in criminal cases across the nation can free the guilty and convict the innocent, prompting official efforts to correct breakdowns. |
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Chicago Tribune
For its exposure of faulty governmental regulation of toys, car seats and cribs, resulting in the extensive recall of hazardous products and congressional action to tighten supervision. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dave Umhoefer |
For his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures. |
| Jeff Pillets |
For their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism. |
| John Brennan |
For their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism. |
| Tim Nostrand |
For their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism. |
| Chris Davis |
For their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action. |
| Matthew Doig |
For their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action. |
| Tiffany Lankes |
For their dogged exposure, in print and online, of predatory teachers and the system that protects them, stirring state and national action. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gene Weingarten |
For his chronicling of a world-class violinist who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters. |
| Thomas Curwen |
For his vivid account of a grizzly bear attack and the recovery of the two victims. |
| Kevin Vaughan |
For his sensitive retelling of a school bus and train collision at a rural crossing in 1961 that killed 20 children. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mark Feeney |
For his penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting. |
| Ann Hornaday |
For her perceptive movie reviews and essays, reflecting solid research and an easy, engaging style. |
| Inga Saffron |
For her forceful critiques that illuminate the vital interplay between architecture and the life of her city. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Ramirez |
For his provocative cartoons that rely on originality, humor and detailed artistry. |
| Tom Batiuk |
For a sequence in his cartoon strip \"Funky Winkerbean\" that portrays a woman's poignant battle with breast cancer. |
| Clay Bennett |
For his distinctive cartoons marked by sharp focus and pungent simplicity. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Idaho Statesman |
For its tenacious coverage of the twists and turns in the scandal involving the state's senator, Larry Craig. |
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The New York Times
For its swift, penetrating coverage of a fire in the Bronx that killed nine persons, eight of them children. |
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The Washington Post
For its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online. |
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walt Bogdanich |
For their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials. |
| Jake Hooker |
For their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials. |
| Miles Moffeit |
For their reports on how destruction of evidence in criminal cases across the nation can free the guilty and convict the innocent, prompting official efforts to correct breakdowns. |
| Susan Greene |
For their reports on how destruction of evidence in criminal cases across the nation can free the guilty and convict the innocent, prompting official efforts to correct breakdowns. |
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Chicago Tribune
For its exposure of faulty governmental regulation of toys, car seats and cribs, resulting in the extensive recall of hazardous products and congressional action to tighten supervision. |
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