1989 Pulitzer Prize

1989 Pulitzer Prize

Winners of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize by Category

Journalism Awards

*Public Service:
**"Anchorage Daily News", for reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on their despair and resulted in various reforms.
*General News Reporting:
** Staff of "Louisville Courier-Journal", for its exemplary initial coverage of a bus crash that claimed 27 lives and its subsequent thorough and effective examination of the causes and implications of the tragedy.
*Investigative Reporting:
** Bill Dedman of the "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution", for his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies.
*Explanatory Journalism:
**David Hanners, reporter, William Snyder, photographer, and Karen Blessen, artist of "The Dallas Morning News", for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety.
*Specialized Reporting:
**Edward Humes of "The Orange County Register", for his in-depth reporting on the military establishment in Southern California.
*National Reporting:
**Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of "The Philadelphia Inquirer", for their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses.
*International Reporting:
**Bill Keller of "The New York Times", for resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R.
*International Reporting:
**Glenn Frankel of "The Washington Post", for sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East.
*Feature Writing:
**David Zucchino of "The Philadelphia Inquirer", for his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa".
*Commentary:
**Clarence Page of the "Chicago Tribune", for his provocative columns on local and national affairs.
*Criticism:
**Michael Skube of the "News & Observer", Raleigh, North Carolina. For his writing about books and other literary topics.
*Editorial Writing:
**Lois Wille of the "Chicago Tribune", for her editorials on a variety of local issues.
*Editorial Cartooning:
**Jack Higgins of the "Chicago Sun-Times".
*Spot News Photography:
**Ron Olshwanger, a free-lance photographer, for a picture published in the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.
*Feature Photography:
**Manny Crisostomo of the "Detroit Free Press", for his series of photographs. depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

*Fiction:
**"Breathing Lessons" by Anne Tyler.
*Drama:
** "The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy Wasserstein.
*History:
**"Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era" by James M. McPherson.
*History:
**"Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963" by Taylor Branch.
*Biography or Autobiography:
**"Oscar Wilde" by the late Richard Ellmann.
*Poetry:
**"New and Collected Poems" by Richard Wilbur.
*General Non-fiction:
**"A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam" by Neil Sheehan.
*Music:
**"Whispers Out of Time" by Roger Reynolds, premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.

External links

* [http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?year=1989&FormsButton1=Show+Winners Pulitzer Prizes for 1989] .


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