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. List of winners: The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...
1979: Jon D. Franklin, Baltimore Evening Sun, for an account of brain surgery.
1984: Peter Mark Rinearson, The Seattle Times, for "Making It Fly," his 29,000-word account of the development, manufacture, and marketing of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
1985: Alice Steinbach, The Baltimore Sun, for her account of a blind boy's world, "A Boy of Unusual Vision."
1986:John Camp, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, for his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression.
1988: Jacqui Banaszynski, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, for her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community.
1990: Dave Curtin, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, for a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home.
1991: Sheryl James, St. Petersburg Times, for a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
1992:Howell Raines, The New York Times, for "Grady's Gift," an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship.
1993: George Lardner Jr., The Washington Post, for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.
1994: Isabel Wilkerson, The New York Times, for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
1997: Lisa Pollak, The Baltimore Sun, for her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
1998: Thomas French, 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.
1999: Angelo B. Henderson, The Wall Street Journal, for his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime.
2000: J.R. Moehringer, Los Angeles Times, for his portrait of Gee's Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.
2001: Tom Hallman, Jr., The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), for his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance.
2002:Barry Siegel, Los Angeles Times, for his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case.
2003: Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times, for "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.
2005: Julia Keller of Chicago Tribune, for her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Ill.
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
Feature Photography - For a distinguished example of feature photography in fl and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
The PulitzerPrize is a United States award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism.
The very first PulitzerPrizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and in recent times, they are announced each year, in the month of April.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer travelling fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
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