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Awards ranging from journalism to fiction to music Related Links Pulitzer Prizes Joseph Pulitzer Biography Book, Magazine, and Newspaper Awards National Book Awards Man Booker Prize National Journalism Awards JournalismPublic Service: Las Vegas Sun, and notably the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The New York Times Investigative Reporting: David Barstow of The New York Times Explanatory Reporting: Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of Los Angeles Times Local Reporting: Detroit Free Press Staff, and notably Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick; Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ National Reporting: Staff of St. Petersburg Times International Reporting: Staff of The New York Times Feature Writing: Lane DeGregory of 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 MusicFiction: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) Drama: Ruined by Lynn Nottage History: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company) Biography: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House) Poetry: The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) General Nonfiction: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday) Music: Double Sextet by Steve Reich (Boosey & Hawkes). Special Citations and AwardsNone More from Pulitzer Prizes

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Journalism

  • Public Service: Las Vegas Sun, and notably the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The New York Times Investigative Reporting: David Barstow of The New York Times Explanatory Reporting: Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of Los Angeles Times Local Reporting: Detroit Free Press Staff, and notably Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick; Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ National Reporting: Staff of St. Petersburg Times International Reporting: Staff of The New York Times Feature Writing: Lane DeGregory of 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 (Random House) Drama: Ruined by Lynn Nottage History: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company) Biography: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House) Poetry: The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) General Nonfiction: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday) Music: Double Sextet by Steve Reich (Boosey & Hawkes).

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  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales