1994 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1994.

Journalism awards

*Public Service:
**"Akron Beacon Journal", for its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.
*Spot News Reporting:
**Staff of "New York Times", for its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center.
*Investigative Reporting:
**Staff of "Providence Journal-Bulletin", for thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the Rhode Island court system.
*Explanatory Journalism:
**Ronald Kotulak of "Chicago Tribune", for his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science.
*Beat Reporting:
**Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld of "Detroit News", for dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
*National Reporting:
**Eileen Welsome of "Albuquerque Tribune", for stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
*International Reporting:
**Dallas Morning News Team of "Dallas Morning News", for its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.
*Feature Writing:
**Isabel Wilkerson of "New York Times", for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
*Commentary:
**William Raspberry of "Washington Post", for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
*Criticism:
**Lloyd Schwartz of "Boston Phoenix", a weekly, for his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.
*Editorial Writing:
**R. Bruce Dold of "Chicago Tribune", for his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
*Editorial Cartooning:
**Michael P. Ramirez of "Commercial Appeal", Memphis, Tennessee, for his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues.
*Spot News Photography:
**Paul Watson of "Toronto Star", for his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.
*Feature Photography:
**Kevin Carter, a freelance photographer, for a picture first published in "The New York Times" of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.

Letters awards

*Fiction:
**"The Shipping News" by E. Annie Proulx (ISBN 0-684-85791-X)
*History:
**no award
*Biography or Autobiography:
**"" by David Levering Lewis (ISBN 0-8050-3568-0)
*Poetry:
**"" by Yusef Komunyakaa (ISBN 0-8195-2208-2)
*General Non-Fiction:
**"" by David Remnick (ISBN 0-679-42376-1)

Arts awards

*Drama:
**"Three Tall Women" by Edward Albee (ISBN 0-525-93960-1)
*Music:
**"Of Reminiscences and Reflections" by Gunther SchullerPremiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Kentucky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.

External links

*http://www.pulitzer.org/cyear/1994w.html