PUBLIC SERVICE Staff of The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. SPOT NEWS REPORTING Robert D. McFadden of The New York Times INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Staff of The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif. EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM Laurie Garrett of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. BEAT REPORTING Bob Keeler of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. NATIONAL REPORTING Alix M. Freedman of The Wall Street Journal INTERNATIONAL REPORTING David Rohde of The Christian Science Monitor FEATURE WRITING Rick Bragg of The New York Times COMMENTARY E.R. Shipp of the New York Daily News CRITICISM Robert Campbell of The Boston Globe EDITORIAL WRITING Robert B. Semple, Jr. of The New York Times EDITORIAL CARTOONING Jim Morin of The Miami Herald SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY Charles Porter IV, free-lance photographer, the Associated Press FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Stephanie Welsh, free-lance photographer, Newhouse News Service SPECIAL AWARD Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle FICTION Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) DRAMA Rent by the late Jonathan Larson HISTORY William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) BIOGRAPHY God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf) POETRY The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press) GENERAL NON-FICTION The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (Random House) MUSIC Lilacs for voice and orchestra by George Walker MEMBERS The 19-member board overseeing the prizes. home | 1996 | archive | history | resources