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2015 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: P. Gigot, R. Blau, K. Willey, D. Allen, M. Pride, G. Collins, J. Diaz; back row, left to right: A. Marquez, K. Boo, S. Coll, S. Engelberg, S. Hahn, R. Beck, J. Daniszewski, E. Robinson, Q. Hudes (absent from photo: L. Bollinger, J. Dehli)

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Danielle Allen, chair; Mike Pride, administrator

Staff

Publication
Los Angeles Times
Citation
For a quick but thoughtful response to a shooting spree, beginning with minute-by-minute digital storytelling and evolving into print coverage that delved into the impact of the tragedy.
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Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Staff

Publication
The Buffalo News
Citation
For a superbly reported and written account of a lake-effect snowstorm, using human detail to illuminate the story and multimedia elements to help readers through the storm.
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Categories: Breaking News Reporting

Evan Osnos

Publication
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Citation
The story of a vast country and society in the grip of transformation, calmly surveyed, smartly reported and portrayed with exacting strokes.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Categories: General Nonfiction

Anand Gopal

Publication
No Good Men Among the Living
Citation
A remarkable work of nonfiction storytelling that exposes the cascade of blunders that doomed America's misbegotten intervention in Afghanistan.
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
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Categories: General Nonfiction

Arthur Sze

Publication
Compass Rose
Citation
A collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world.
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
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Categories: Poetry

Alan Shapiro

Publication
Reel to Reel
Citation
Finely crafted poems with a composure that cannot conceal the troubled terrain they traverse.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
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Categories: Poetry

Stephen Kotkin

Publication
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Citation
A superbly researched tour de force of pre- and post-revolutionary Russian history told through the life of Joseph Stalin.
Publisher
Penguin Press
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Categories: Biography

Thomas Brothers

Publication
Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism
Citation
The masterfully researched second volume of a life of the musical pioneer, effectively showing him in the many milieus where he lived and worked in the 1920s and 1930s.
Publisher
W.W. Norton
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Categories: Biography

Jordan Harrison

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Marjorie Prime
Citation
A sly and surprising work about technology and artificial intelligence told through images and ideas that resonate.
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Categories: Drama

Suzan-Lori Parks

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Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, 3)
Citation
A distinctive and lyrical epic about a slave during the Civil War that deftly takes on questions of identity, power and freedom with a blend of humor and dignity.
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Categories: Drama
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