Winners of the 1989 Pulitizer Prize by Category

PUBLIC SERVICE Anchorage Daily News For reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on their despair and resulted in various reforms. The Anchorage Daily News is a daily newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska. ... Alcoholism is the intermittent or continual drinking of alcoholic beverages—which contain the drug ethanol—to the extent that it causes physical or mental harm, or interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...

GENERAL NEWS REPORTING Staff of Louisville Courier-Journal For its exemplary initial coverage of a bus crash that claimed 27 lives and its subsequent thorough and effective examination of the causes and implications of the tragedy. Categories: Stub | Newspapers in Kentucky | Louisville, Kentucky ...

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Bill Dedman of Atlanta Journal and Constitution For his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies. An African-American drinks out of a water fountain marked for colored in 1939 at a street car terminal in Oklahoma City. ...

EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM David Hanners, reporter, William Snyder, photographer, and Karen Blessen, artist of Dallas Morning News For their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety. Snyder in 2005 William Snyder is a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and is currently the Director of Photography for The Dallas Morning News. ... The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area. ...

SPECIALIZED REPORTING Edward Humes of Orange County Register For his in-depth reporting on the military establishment in Southern California. Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and published crime-fiction and non-fiction writer. ... The Orange County Register is a daily newspaper published in Santa Ana, California. ... Southern California Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Vintage Disneyland Southern California, sometimes abbreviated SoCal or colloquially, the Southland, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the U.S. state of California. ...

NATIONAL REPORTING Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of Philadelphia Inquirer For their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the South Lawn. ...

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING Bill Keller of New York Times For resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R. Soviet redirects here. ...

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING Glenn Frankel of Washington Post For sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East. ...

FEATURE WRITING David Zucchino of Philadelphia Inquirer For his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa." The Philadelphia Inquirer is one of a two Knight Ridder newspaper duopoly daily for the Philadelphia area. ...

COMMENTARY Clarence Page of Chicago Tribune For his provocative columns on local and national affairs.

CRITICISM Michael Skube of News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C. For his writing about books and other literary topics.

EDITORIAL WRITING Lois Wille of Chicago Tribune For her editorials on a variety of local issues. The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the Worlds Greatest Newspaper, remains one of the principal daily newspapers of the midwestern United States. ...

EDITORIAL CARTOONING Jack Higgins of Chicago Sun-Times New Chicago Sun-Times home located at 350 N. Orleans St. ...

SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY Ron Olshwanger, a free-lance photographer For a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Manny Crisostomo of Detroit Free Press For his series of photographs. depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit. Along with The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press is one of the two major metro Detroit newspapers. ...

FICTION Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) Anne Tyler (born on October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. ...

DRAMA The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles is a play by Wendy Wasserstein, which won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in drama, as well as the 1989 Tony Award. ... Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. ...

HISTORY Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press) Battle Cry of Freedom is a song written in 1862 by American composer George F. Root (1825–1895) during the American Civil War. ...

HISTORY Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon and Schuster)

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf) Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ... Richard Ellmann (March 15, 1918 - 1987) was a prominent literary critic and biographer of Irish writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. ...

POETRY New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921), is a United States poet. ...

GENERAL NON-FICTION A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House)

MUSIC Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds Premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts. American composer and teacher at the University of California at San Diego Roger Reynolds was born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. ... Amherst College is an independent liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. It is the third oldest college in Massachusetts. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ...