Skip to main content
Board lander photo
2006 Pulitzer Prize Board
Board lander photo caption

Front row: K. Carroll, H. Gates, J. Byrd, A. Bennett, S. Gissler
Middle row: T. Friedman, N. Lemann, A. Lipinski, J. Harris, L. Bollinger, R. Oppel, M. Pride
Back row: A. Gyllenhaal, G. Moore, D. Graham, P. Steiger, P. Tash, D. Kennedy, J. Amoss --(photo credit: Eileen Barroso)

Board Lander Sub Title
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair; Sig Gissler, administrator

Steve Fainaru

Publication
The Washington Post
Citation
For his powerful accounts of the deadly violence faced by ordinary American soldiers in Iraq as an insurgency intensified.
Tags: 2006
Categories: International Reporting

Sean Wilentz

Publication
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Tags: 2006
Categories: History

Lee Martin

Publication
The Bright Forever
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books/Crown Publishing
Tags: 2006
Categories: Fiction

Mary Schmich

Publication
Chicago Tribune
Citation
For her intimate and compelling story about a federal judge whose husband and mother were murdered by an angry former plaintiff.
Tags: 2006
Categories: Feature Writing
Subscribe to 2006