A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998: The Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary award given out each April. ...

Journalism

• Public Service:
  • Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald. For its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself.
• Beat Reporting:
  • Linda Greenhouse of New York Times. For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.
• Breaking News Photography
  • Martha Rial of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi.
• Breaking News Reporting
  • Staff of Los Angeles Times. For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.
• Commentary
  • Mike McAlary of New York Daily News. For reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse.
• Criticism
  • Michiko Kakutani of New York Times. For her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature
• Editorial Cartooning
  • Stephen P. Breen of Asbury Park Press, Neptune, NJ
• Editorial Writing
  • Bernard L. Stein of Riverdale (N.Y.) Press, a weekly journal. For his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.
• Explanatory Reporting
  • Paul Salopek of Chicago Tribune. For his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people.
• Feature Photography
  • Clarence Williams of Los Angeles Times. For his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs.
• Feature Writing
  • Thomas French of St. Petersburg Times. For his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.
• International Reporting
  • Staff of New York Times. For its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.
• Investigative Reporting
  • Gary Cohn and Will Englund of Baltimore Sun. For their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled.
• National Reporting
  • Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News. For their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms.

The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service has been awarded since 1918 for a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic resources which may include editorials, cartoons, and photographs, as well as reporting. ... Downtown area of Grand Forks. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting has been presented since 1991 for a distinguished example of beat reporting characterized by sustained and knowledgeable coverage of a particular subject or activity. ... Linda Greenhouse is a reporter for The New York Times. ... Students gather following the Columbine High School massacre, part of the photography for which the Denver Rocky Mounain News won the 2000 Breaking News Photography Pulitzer. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is awarded each year since 1998 for a distinguished example of local reporting of breaking news. ... The Los Angeles Times (also LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary has been awarded since 1970. ... New York Daily News Building, Raymond Hood, architct, rendering by Hugh Ferriss The New York Daily News is one of the largest newspapers in the United States with a circulation well over 700,000. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer who has demonstrated distinguished criticism. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by Columbia University. ... Michiko Kakutani is a book reviewer for the New York Times. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning has been awarded since 1922 for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting was first introduced in 1998, replacing the earlier Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography has been awarded since 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album. ... Clarence Williams ( November 8, 1893 - November 6, 1965) was a Jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, and publisher. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality. ... The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1985 for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series. ... The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs. ...

Letters

• Biography or Autobiography
  • Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Fiction
  • American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
• History
  • Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson (BasicBooks)
• General Non-Fiction
  • Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
• Poetry
  • Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Drama
  • How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
• Music
  • String Quartet #2 (musica instrumentalis) by Aaron Jay Kernis

Premiered on January 19, 1990, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet. The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. ... American Pastoral cover American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel about concerns Seymour Swede Levov, an all around good guy, whose life is ruined by the basic American berzerk. ... The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. ... The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. ... Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American author, evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, and Jew. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ... Paula Vogel (16 November 1951-) is an American playwright. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. ... The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. ...

• Special Citation
  • George Gershwin - Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.

George Gershwin photograph by Edward Steichen in 1927. ...