A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1997:

Journalism awards

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|Public Service||The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)||" ... for its comprehensive series analyzing the conditions that threaten the world's supply of fish."

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|Beat Reporting||Byron Acohido of The Seattle Times||" ... for his coverage of the aerospace industry, notably an exhaustive investigation of rudder control problems on the Boeing 737, which contributed to new FAA requirements for major improvements."

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|Spot News Photography||Annie Wells of The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California)||" ... for her dramatic photograph of a local firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters."

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|Breaking News Reporting||Staff of Newsday||" ... for its enterprising coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and its aftermath."

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|Commentary||Eileen McNamara of The Boston Globe||" ... for her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues."

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|Criticism||Tim Page of The Washington Post||" ... for his lucid and illuminating music criticism."

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|Editorial Cartooning||Walt Handelsman of The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

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|Editorial Writing||Michael Gartner of the Ames Tribune (Ames, Iowa)||" ... for his common sense editorials about issues deeply affecting the lives of people in his community."

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|Explanatory Journalism||Michael Vitez, reporter, and April Saul and Ron Cortes, photographers of The Philadelphia Inquirer||" ... for a series on the choices that confronted critically ill patients who sought to die with dignity."

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|Feature Photography||Alexander Zemlianichenko of the Associated Press||" ... for his photograph of Russian president Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election." (Moved by the Board from the Spot News Photography category)

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|Feature Writing||Lisa Pollak of The 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."

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|International Reporting||John F. Burns of The New York Times||" ... for his courageous and insightful coverage of the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban."

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|Investigative Reporting||Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson and Alex Tizon of The Seattle Times||" ... for their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms."

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|National Reporting||Staff of The Wall Street Journal||" ... for its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease."

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Letters, Drama and Music Awards

  • Biography or Autobiography:
  • Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
  • Fiction:
  • Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
  • History:
  • Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • General Nonfiction:
  • Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Poetry:
  • Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
  • Drama:
  • No award given.
  • Music;
  • Blood on the Fields by Wynton Marsalis (Boosey & Hawkes), premiered on January 28, 1997, at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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