|

2005
     
For a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
|
Awarded to Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune for her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Ill.
|
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Robin Gaby Fisher of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., for her exhaustive look inside the lives of students at an alternative high school, shattering stereotypes and delineating memorable characters, and Anne Hull of The Washington Post for her clear, sensitive, tirelessly reported stories on what it means to be young and gay in modern America.
|
|