Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced Today
JOURNALISM:
Public Service – Las Vegas Sun
Breaking News Reporting – The New York Times Staff
Investigative Reporting – David Barstow of The New York Times
Explanatory Reporting – Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times
Local Reporting –
Detroit Free Press Staff
and
Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of the East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ
National Reporting – St. Petersburg Times Staff
International Reporting – The New York Times Staff
Feature Writing – Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times
Commentary – Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post
Criticism – Holland Cotter of The New York Times
Editorial Writing – Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY
Editorial Cartooning – Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune
Breaking News Photography – Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald
Feature Photography – Damon Winter of The New York Times
LETTERS, DRAMA and MUSIC:
Fiction – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Drama – Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History – The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Biography – American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Poetry – The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin
General Nonfiction – Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
Music – Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA
Check out http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2009 for more info
