And the Pulitzers Went To...
A full list of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners follows. A few surprises in there: did we know that Bob Dylan got a Special Citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power"? And that the Editorial Writing award went to... no one?
PUBLIC SERVICE:
The Washington Post
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING:
The Washington Post Staff
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING:
Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING:
The Chicago Tribune Staff
EXPLANATORY REPORTING:
Amy Harmon of The New York Times
LOCAL REPORTING:
David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
NATIONAL REPORTING:
Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING:
Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post
FEATURE WRITING:
Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post
COMMENTARY:
Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post
CRITICISM:
Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe
EDITORIAL WRITING:
No Award
EDITORIAL CARTOONING:
Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY:
Adrees Latif of Reuters
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY:
Preston Gannaway of the Concord Monitor
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
FICTION
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
DRAMA
"August: Osage County," by Tracy Letts
HISTORY
"What Hath God Wrought," by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
BIOGRAPHY
"Eden's Outcasts," by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
POETRY
"Time and Materials," by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)
POETRY
"Failure," by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
GENERAL NONFICTION
"The Years of Extermination," by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)
MUSIC:
"The Little Match Girl Passion," by David Lang (G. Schirmer)
Special Citation:
Bob Dylan