For a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).
St. Petersburg (FL) Times , by Sheryl James
For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 1991:
Tad Bartimus
For her moving account of her father's death from lung cancer.
Wil Haygood
For three illuminating portraits of African-American life.
The Jury
The Jury
Benjamin B. Taylor(Chair)
Executive Editor, The Boston Globe
Jacqui Banaszynski*
Special Projects Reporter, St. Paul Pioneer Press
Dave Curtin*
General Assignment Reporter, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Fernando Dovalina
Assistant Managing Editor, Houston Chronicle
David Hanners*
Special Projects Reporter, The Dallas Morning News
Winners in Feature Writing
Dave Curtin
For a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home.
David Zucchino
For his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa."
Jacqui Banaszynski
For her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community.
Steve Twomey
For his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier.
1991 Prize Winners
Natalie Angier
For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
Jim Hoagland
For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
David Shaw
For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.