Congrats to the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners!

Congrats to all of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners!

The Pulitzer prize was established in 1917 by a Hungarian-American publisher named Joseph Pulitzer.

Each year Columbia University distributes the awards. The Pulitzer prize is used to recognize outstanding, extraordinary achievements in the areas of: Newspaper Journalism, Literature, Composition and Music. In addition each award comes with a $10,000. purse. Not bad! In this Recession I could sure use $10,000. right about now.

Perhaps in the near future Columbia will also recognize Blogging. (hint, hint)

Again Congrats to all 2009 recipients for their contributions to a more intelligent society.


Journalism

Public Service
Las Vegas Sun, and notably the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon

Breaking News Reporting
Staff of The New York Times

Investigative Reporting
David Barstow of The New York Times

Explanatory Reporting
Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of Los Angeles Times

Local Reporting
Detroit Free Press Staff, and notably Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick
Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ

National Reporting
Staff of St. Petersburg Times

International Reporting
Staff of The New York Times

Feature Writing
Lane DeGregory of St. Petersburg Times

Commentary
Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post

Criticism
Holland Cotter of The New York Times

Editorial Writing
Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY

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 Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

Drama
Ruined by Lynn Nottage

History
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)

Biography or Autobiography
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)

Poetry
The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)

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

Music
Double Sextet by Steve Reich (Boosey & Hawkes)

Sources: Pulitzerprize.org, Wikipedia, La Times, LynnNottage.net