The Pulitzer Prize Winners

JOURNALISM

PUBLIC SERVICE
The Washington Post

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
The Washington Post Staff

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
The Chicago Tribune Staff

EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Amy Harmon of The New York Times

LOCAL REPORTING
David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

NATIONAL REPORTING
Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post

FEATURE WRITING
Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post

COMMENTARY
Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post

CRITICISM
Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe

EDITORIAL WRITING
No Award

EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Adrees Latif of Reuters

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Preston Gannaway of the Concord Monitor


LETTERS, DRAMA, AND MUSIC

FICTION
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

DRAMA
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

HISTORY
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

BIOGRAPHY
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

POETRY
Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)

POETRY
Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

MUSIC
The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang (G. Schirmer)

SPECIAL CITATIONS & AWARDS

SPECIAL CITATION
Bob Dylan