Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
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:
- 1979: Jon D. Franklin, Baltimore Evening Sun, for an account of brain surgery.
- 1980: Madeleine Blais, Miami Herald, for "Zepp's Last Stand."
- 1981: Teresa Carpenter, Village Voice
- 1982: Saul Pett, Associated Press, for an article profiling the federal bureaucracy.
- 1983: Nan Robertson, New York Times, for her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with toxic shock syndrome.
- 1984: Peter Mark Rinearson, Seattle Times, for "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
- 1985: Alice Steinbach, 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.
- 1987: Steve Twomey, Philadelphia Inquirer, for his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier.
- 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.
- 1989: David Zucchino, Philadelphia Inquirer, for his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa."
- 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 (Florida), 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, 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., 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, 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.
- 1995: Ron Suskind, Wall Street Journal, for his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper.
- 1996: Rick Bragg, New York Times, for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.
- 1997: Lisa Pollak, 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 (Florida), 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, 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.
- 2004: not awarded
