Pulitzer Prize 2015

Pulitzer Prize 2015

Journalism

Public Service:                         The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC

Breaking News Reporting:       The Seattle Times Staff

Investigative Reporting:             Eric Lipton of The New York Times - The Wall Street Journal Staff

Explanatory Reporting:              Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News

Local Reporting:            Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA

National Reporting:                  Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post

International Reporting:            The New York Times Staff

Feature Writing:                       Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times

Commentary:                           Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle

Criticism:                                 Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times

Editorial Writing:                     Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe

Editorial Cartooning:                Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News

Breaking News Photography:   St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff

Feature Photography:               Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, The New York Times

Letters, Drama and Music

Fiction:                         All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)

Drama:                         Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis

History:                        Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)

Biography or Autobiography:  The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer (Random House)

Poetry:                         Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)

General Nonfiction:     The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt)

Music:                         Anthracite Fields by Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy Music/G. Schirmer, Inc.)