Press Release: Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Fred Knubel, Director of Public Information

FOR USE UPON RECEIPT: April 9, 1996

PULITZER PRIZES 1996

President George Rupp of Columbia University
today announced the 1996 Pulitzer Prizes
awarded on the recommendation of the
Pulitzer Prize Board

JOURNALISM
Public Service -

The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.

Spot News Reporting -

Robert D. McFadden of The New York Times

Investigative Reporting -

Staff of The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif.

Explanatory Journalism -

Laurie Garrett of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.

Beat Reporting -

Bob Keeler of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.

National Reporting -

Alix M. Freedman of The Wall Street Journal

International Reporting -

David Rohde of The Christian Science Monitor

Feature Writing -

Rick Bragg of The New York Times

Commentary -

E.R. Shipp of the New York Daily News

Criticism -

Robert Campbell of The Boston Globe

Editorial Writing -

Robert B. Semple, Jr. of The New York Times

Editorial Cartooning -

Jim Morin of The Miami Herald

Spot News Photography -

Charles Porter IV, free-lance photographer, the Associated Press

Feature Photography -

Stephanie Welsh, free-lance photographer, Newhouse News Service

SPECIAL AWARD

Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle

LETTERS AND DRAMA

Fiction -

Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)

Drama -

Rent by the late Jonathan Larson

History -

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

Biography -

God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry -

The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press)

General Non-Fiction -

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (Random House)

MUSIC

Lilacs for voice and orchestra by George Walker

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