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2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Columbia University has announced the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Here are the winnners.

JOURNALISM
  • Public Service -- The Washington Post
  • Breaking News Reporting -- The Washington Post Staff
  • Investigative Reporting -- Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune Staff
  • Explanatory Reporting -- Amy Harmon of The New York Times
  • Local Reporting -- David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • National Reporting -- Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post
  • International Reporting -- Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post
  • Feature Writing -- Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post
  • Commentary -- Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post
  • Criticism -- Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe
  • Editorial Writing -- No Award
  • Editorial Cartooning -- Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily
  • Breaking News Photography -- Adrees Latif of Reuters
  • Feature Photography -- Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor

    LETTERS AND DRAMA
  • Fiction -- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
  • Drama -- August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
  • History -- What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
  • Biography -- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
  • Poetry -- Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) and Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
  • General Nonfiction -- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

    MUSIC
  • "The Little Match Girl Passion" by David Lang, premiered October 25, 2007 at Carnegie Hall, New York City. (G. Schirmer, Inc.)

    SPECIAL CITATION
  • Bob Dylan


    Posted on April 8, 2008
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    2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

    The 2006 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. The winners are listed below. A winners list on the official pulitzer.org also has details about each of the winners. The Write News has an article about the public service winners for Hurricane Katrina coverage.

    Journalism

  • Public Service: The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. and The Times-Picayune, New Orleans
  • Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Times-Picayune, New Orleans
  • Investigative Reporting: Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith of The Washington Post
  • Explanatory Reporting: David Finkel of The Washington Post
  • Beat Reporting: Dana Priest of The Washington Post
  • National Reporting: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times andStaffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service
  • International Reporting: Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of The New York Times
  • Feature Writing: Jim Sheeler of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
  • Commentary: Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times
  • Criticism: Robin Givhan of The Washington Post
  • Editorial Writing: Rick Attig and Doug Bates of The Oregonian, Portland
  • Editorial Cartooning: Mike Luckovich of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • Breaking News Photography: The Dallas Morning News Staff
  • Feature Photography: Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.

    Letters and Drama

  • Fiction: March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
  • Drama: No Award
  • History: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)
  • Biography: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Poetry: Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
  • General Non-Fiction: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)

    Music

  • Piano Concerto: 'Chiavi in Mano' by Yehudi Wyner, premiered February 17, 2005 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (Associated Music Publishers, Inc.)

    Special Citations: Edmund S. Morgan and Thelonious Monk


    Posted on May 5, 2006
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