Presenting the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 07:07 AM

The winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize were announced yesterday. The award recognizes outstanding work in journalism, literature, drama and music. Below is a complete list of this year's winners.

Journalism

Public Service Reporting:
Las Vegas Sun reporting on a string of construction worker deaths by Alexandra Berzon

Breaking News Reporting:
New York Times coverage of Eliot Spitzer's resignation

Investigative Reporting:
David Barstow of the New York Times for his look at the murky ties between independent military analysts and the Pentagon

Explanatory Reporting:
Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times on the California wild fires

Local Reporting:
M.L. Elrick and Jim Schaefer of the Detroit Free Press breaking the scandal that brought down Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
and
Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of East Valley Tribune in Phoenix, Arizona for their series "Reasonable Doubt"

National Reporting:
The staff of St. Petersburg Times for their political fact checking website

International Reporting:
The staff of The New York Times for coverage of Afghanistan

Feature Writing:
Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times for her story "The Girl in the Window"

Click through for the rest of the winners.

Commentary:

Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post

Criticism:

Holland Cotter of The New York Times for his arts writing

Editorial Writing:

Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star

Editorial Cartooning:

Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune

Breaking News Photography:

Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald

Feature Photography:

Damon Winter of The New York Times

Letters, Drama, and Music

Fiction:

Olive Ketteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Drama:

Ruined by Lynn Nottage

History:

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

Biography or Autobiography:

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

Poetry

The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin

General Nonfiction:

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

Music:

Double Sextet by Steve Reich

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