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2013 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: J. Diaz, T. Friedman, G. Moore, S. Gissler, D. Allen, J. Dehli; back row, left to right: L. Bollinger, A. Marques, S. Coll, R. Blau, P. Tash, K. Willey, R. Beck, P. Gigot, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, S. Hahn (absent: N. Lemann, Q. Hudes)

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Thomas L. Friedman and Gregory Moore, co-chairs; Sig Gissler, administrator

Bret Stephens

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Lee Bollinger and Bret Stephens
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For his incisive columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist.
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Categories: Commentary
Publication
The Wall Street Journal

Gilbert King

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Lee Bollinger and Gilbert King
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A richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle.
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Categories: General Nonfiction
Publisher
Harper
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Tom Reiss

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Lee Bollinger and Tom Reiss
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A compelling story of a forgotten swashbuckling hero of mixed race whose bold exploits were captured by his son, Alexander Dumas, in famous 19th century novels.
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Categories: Biography
Publisher
Crown
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Fredrik Logevall

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Lee Bollinger and Fredrik Logevall
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A balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.
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Categories: History
Publisher
Random House
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

Caroline Shaw

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Lee Bollinger and Caroline Shaw
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A highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects (New Amsterdam Records).
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Categories: Music
Publisher
New Amsterdam Records
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Partita for 8 Voices

Sharon Olds

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Lee Bollinger and Sharon Olds
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A book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.
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Categories: Poetry
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication
Stag's Leap

Adam Johnson

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Lee Bollinger and Adam Johnson
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An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.
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Categories: Fiction
Publisher
Random House
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The Orphan Master's Son

Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer

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Lee Bollinger, Elizabeth McGown, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer
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For their rigorous reports on flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or "dilbit"), a controversial form of oil.
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Location
Brooklyn, NY
Categories: National Reporting
Publication
InsideClimate News

Ayad Akhtar

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Lee Bollinger and Ayad Akhtar
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A moving play that depicts a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage.
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Categories: Drama
Publication
Disgraced
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