Contact: Caroline Ladhani FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (212)854-6581 April 5, 2004 [email protected]

PULITZER PRIZES 2004

Columbia University today announced the 2004 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

JOURNALISM Public Service – The New York Times Breaking News Reporting – Los Angeles Times Staff Investigative Reporting – Michael D. Sallah, and of The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Explanatory Reporting – Kevin Helliker and Thomas M. Burton of Beat Reporting – Daniel Golden of The Wall Street Journal National Reporting – Los Angeles Times Staff International Reporting – Anthony Shadid of Feature Writing – No Award Commentary – Leonard Pitts Jr. of The Criticism – Dan Neil of the Los Angeles Times Editorial Writing – William Stall of the Los Angeles Times Editorial Cartooning – Matt Davies of The Journal News, White Plains, NY Breaking News Photography – David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer of The Dallas Morning News

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Feature Photography – Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times

LETTERS AND DRAMA Fiction – The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/HarperCollins) Drama – I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright History – A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Biography – Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman (W.W. Norton) Poetry – Walking to Martha’s Vineyard by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) General Nonfiction – Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)

MUSIC Tempest Fantasy by Paul Moravec, premiered on May 2, 2003 at the Morgan Library, New York City.

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