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1997 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: R. Pederson, W. Safire, S. Bok, S. Topping, G. Rupp, M. Yarbrough, S. Padwe; back row, left to right: W. Ketter, H. Vendler, G. Overholser, A. Barnes, E. Seaton, S. Rowe, J. Fuller, W. Rugaber, L. Boccardi, J. Dotson, J. Risser, J. Carroll

Board Lander Sub Title
Sissela Bok, chairman; Seymour Topping, administrator

Jack N. Rakove

Tags: 1997
Categories: History
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Richard Kluger

Tags: 1997
Categories: General Nonfiction
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication
Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris

Lisa Pollak

Citation
For her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
Tags: 1997
Categories: Feature Writing
Publication
The Baltimore Sun

Alexander Zemlianichenko

Citation
For his photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election. (Moved by the Board from the Spot News Photography category.)
Tags: 1997
Categories: Feature Photography
Publication
Associated Press

Michael Gartner

Citation
For his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community.
Tags: 1997
Location
Ames, Iowa
Categories: Editorial Writing
Publication
The Daily Tribune

Tim Page

Citation
For his lucid and illuminating music criticism.
Tags: 1997
Categories: Criticism
Publication
The Washington Post
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