Fast Facts — 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists

2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists

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 (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, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA (Boosey & Hawkes)

+ Finalists, jurors, bios and photos of winners, winning photos and cartoons, and links to winning stories

Source: The Pulitzer Prizes

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