For a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).

Awarded to Sonia Nazario of Los Angeles Times for "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger presents Sonia Nazario with the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Connie Schultz of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, for her moving story about a wrongfully convicted man who refused to succumb to anger or bitterness, and David Stabler of The Oregonian, Portland, for his sensitive, sometimes surprising chronicle of a teen-age prodigy's struggle with a musical talent that proved to be both a gift and a problem.