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)
Source: The Pulitzer Prizes
