Letters, Drama, and Music

Fiction

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

Drama

Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

History

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)

Biography or Autobiography

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)

Poetry

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)

General Nonfiction

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)

Music

Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman

Special Citations

John Coltrane

Ray Bradbury

Pulitzer Prize Board

Members

The board overseeing the prizes

Press Releases

List of press releases for 2007 Prizes

Journalism

Public Service

The Wall Street Journal

Breaking News Reporting

Staff of The Oregonian, Portland

Investigative Reporting

Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham (AL) News

Explanatory Reporting

Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, reporters, and Rick Loomis, photographer, of the Los Angeles Times

Local Reporting

Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald

National Reporting

Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe

International Reporting

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

Feature Writing

Andrea Elliott of The New York Times

Commentary

Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Criticism

Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly

Editorial Writing

Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of New York Daily News

Editorial Cartooning

Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, NY

Breaking News Photography

Oded Balilty of Associated Press

Feature Photography

Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee