1994 PULITZER PRIZE

The following are the 'Pulitzer Prizes for 1994'.

Contents

Journalism awards

Letters awards

Arts awards

External links

Journalism awards

★ Public Service:

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★ ''Akron Beacon Journal'', for its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.

★ Spot News Reporting:

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★ Staff of ''New York Times'', for its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center.

★ Investigative Reporting:

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★ Staff of ''Providence Journal-Bulletin'', for thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the Rhode Island court system.

★ Explanatory Journalism:

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★ Ronald Kotulak of ''Chicago Tribune'', for his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science.

★ Beat Reporting:

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★ Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld of ''Detroit News'', for dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.

★ National Reporting:

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★ Eileen Welsome of ''Albuquerque Tribune'', for stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.

★ International Reporting:

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★ Dallas Morning News Team of ''Dallas Morning News'', for its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.

★ Feature Writing:

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★ Isabel Wilkerson of ''New York Times'', for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.

★ Commentary:

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★ William Raspberry of ''Washington Post'', for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.

★ Criticism:

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★ Lloyd Schwartz of ''Boston Phoenix'', a weekly, for his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.

★ Editorial Writing:

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★ R. Bruce Dold of ''Chicago Tribune'', for his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.

★ Editorial Cartooning:

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★ Michael P. Ramirez of ''Commercial Appeal'', Memphis, Tennessee, for his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues.

★ Spot News Photography:

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★ Paul Watson of ''Toronto Star'', for his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.

★ Feature Photography:

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★ Kevin Carter, a freelance photographer, for a picture first published in ''The New York Times'' of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.

Letters awards

★ Fiction:

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★ ''The Shipping News'' by E. Annie Proulx (ISBN 0-684-85791-X)

★ History:

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★ no award

★ Biography or Autobiography:

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★ '' by David Levering Lewis (ISBN 0-8050-3568-0)

★ Poetry:

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★ '' by Yusef Komunyakaa (ISBN 0-8195-2208-2)

★ General Non-Fiction:

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★ '' by David Remnick (ISBN 0-679-42376-1)

Arts awards

★ Drama:

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★ ''Three Tall Women'' by Edward Albee (ISBN 0-525-93960-1)

★ Music:

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★ ''Of Reminiscences and Reflections'' by Gunther Schuller
Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Kentucky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.

External links

★ http://www.pulitzer.org/cyear/1994w.html