2009 Pulitzer Prize winners

Columbia University today announced the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

JOURNALISM

• Public Service — Las Vegas Sun
• Breaking News Reporting — The New York Times Staff
• Investigative Reporting — David Barstow of The New York Times
• Explanatory Reporting — Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times
• Local Reporting — Detroit Free Press Staff
• and Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of the East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ
• National Reporting — St. Petersburg Times Staff
• International Reporting — The New York Times Staff
• Feature Writing — Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times
• Commentary — Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post
• Criticism — Holland Cotter of The New York Times
• Editorial Writing — Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY
• Editorial Cartooning — Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune
• Breaking News Photography — Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald
• Feature Photography — Damon Winter of The New York Times

LETTERS AND DRAMA

• Fiction — Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
• Drama — Ruined by Lynn Nottage
• History — The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Biography — American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
• Poetry — The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
• General Nonfiction — Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)

MUSIC

• Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA (Boosey & Hawkes).

Source: Columbia University

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