1989 Pulitzer Prize

Winners of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize by Category

Journalism awards

*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.
* 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.
*Investigative Reporting:
** Bill Dedman of ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', for his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies.
* Explanatory Journalism:
**David Hanners, reporter, William Snyder, photographer, and Karen Blessen, artist of ''The Dallas Morning News'', for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety.
* Specialized Reporting:
**Edward Humes of the ''Orange County Register'', for his in-depth reporting on the military establishment in Southern California.
* National Reporting:
**Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of ''The 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.
* International Reporting:
**Bill Keller of ''The New York Times'', for resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R.
* International Reporting:
** Glenn Frankel of ''The Washington Post'', for sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East.
* Feature Writing:
**David Zucchino of ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', for his richly compelling series, ''Being Black in South Africa''.
* Commentary:
**Clarence Page of the ''Chicago Tribune'', for his provocative columns on local and national affairs.
*Criticism:
** Michael Skube of the ''News & Observer'', Raleigh, North Carolina. For his writing about books and other literary topics.
* Editorial Writing:
**Lois Wille of the ''Chicago Tribune'', for her editorials on a variety of local issues.
*Editorial Cartooning:
**Jack Higgins of the ''Chicago Sun-Times''.
* 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 the ''Detroit Free Press'', for his series of photographs depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

*Fiction:
**''Breathing Lessons'' by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
*Drama:
** '' The Heidi Chronicles'' by Wendy Wasserstein (Fireside Theatre)
*History:
**'' Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era'' by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press)
*History:
**'' Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963'' by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
* Biography or Autobiography:
**''Oscar Wilde'' by Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf)
*Poetry:
**''New and Collected Poems'' by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
* 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 ( C. F. Peters)
premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.

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