Letters, Drama, and Music

Fiction

American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

Drama

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

History

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson (BasicBooks)

Biography or Autobiography

Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry

Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar)

General Nonfiction

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)

Music

String Quartet #2 (musica instrumentalis) by Aaron Jay Kernis

Special Citations

George Gershwin

Pulitzer Prize Board

Members

The board overseeing the prizes

Press Releases

No press releases are currently recorded for this year.

Journalism

Public Service

Grand Forks (ND) Herald

Breaking News Reporting

Staff of Los Angeles Times

Investigative Reporting

Gary Cohn and Will Englund of The Baltimore Sun

Explanatory Reporting

Paul F. Salopek of Chicago Tribune

Beat Reporting

Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times

National Reporting

Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News

International Reporting

Staff of The New York Times

Feature Writing

Thomas French of St. Petersburg Times

Commentary

Mike McAlary of New York Daily News, New York, NY

Criticism

Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times

Editorial Writing

Bernard L. Stein of The Riverdale (NY) Press

Editorial Cartooning

Stephen P. Breen of Asbury Park Press, Neptune, NJ

Spot News Photography

Martha Rial of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Feature Photography

Clarence Williams of Los Angeles Times