For a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Awarded to Thomas French of St. Petersburg Times for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.

Columbia University President George Rupp (left) presents Thomas French with the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Steve Giegerich of the Asbury Park Press for his startling and original story about a bond that formed between four medical students and the cadaver they studied, and J.R. Moehringer of the Los Angeles Times for "The Champ," an extraordinary documentation of a heavyweight boxer's glory days and his fall.