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2005 Pulitzer Prize Board
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Front row: N. Lemann, P. Steiger, A. Barnes, S. Gissler, R. Oppel
Back row: K. Carroll, D. Kennedy, M. Pride, J. Byrd, J. Amoss, H. Gates, A. Gyllenhaal, A. Bennett, D. Graham, G. Moore, A. Lipinski, T. Friedman

Board Lander Sub Title
Andrew Barnes, chair; Sig Gissler, administrator

Michael O'Brien

Publication
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Tags: 2005
Categories: History

Kevin Boyle

Publication
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Publisher
Henry Holt
Tags: 2005
Categories: History

Anne Hull

Publication
The Washington Post
Citation
For her clear, sensitive, tirelessly reported stories on what it means to be young and gay in modern America.
Tags: 2005
Categories: Feature Writing

Robin Gaby Fisher

Publication
Star-Ledger
Citation
For her exhaustive look inside the lives of students at an alternative high school, shattering stereotypes and delineating memorable characters.
Location
Newark, NJ
Tags: 2005
Categories: Feature Writing

Luis Sinco

Publication
Los Angeles Times
Citation
For his iconic photograph of an exhausted U.S. Marine's face after a daylong battle in Iraq.
Tags: 2005
Categories: Feature Photography

Jim Gehrz

Publication
The Star Tribune
Citation
For his poignant portrait of a woman soldier's struggle to recover from grave shrapnel wounds to her head.
Location
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Tags: 2005
Categories: Feature Photography