Below are the winners of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize by category.
Journalism awards
Public Service: Anchorage Daily News, for reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on their despair and resulted in various reforms. General News Reporting: Staff of Louisville Courier-Journal, for its exemplary initial coverage of a bus crash that claimed 27 lives and its subsequent thorough and effective examination of the causes and implications of the tragedy. Investigative Reporting: Bill Dedman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies. Explanatory Journalism: David Hanners, reporter, William Snyder, photographer, and Karen Blessen, artist of The Dallas Morning News, for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety. Specialized Reporting: Edward Humes of the Orange County Register, for his in-depth reporting on the military establishment in Southern California. National Reporting: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for their 15-month investigation of rifle shot provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses. International Reporting: Bill Keller of The New York Times, for resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R. International Reporting: Glenn Frankel of The Washington Post, for sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East. Feature Writing: David Zucchino of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his richly compelling series, Being Black in South Africa. Commentary: Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune, for his provocative columns on local and national affairs. Criticism: Michael Skube of the News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, for his writing about books and other literary topics. Editorial Writing: Lois Wille of the Chicago Tribune, for her editorials on a variety of local issues. Editorial Cartooning: Jack Higgins of the Chicago Sun-Times. Spot News Photography: Ron Olshwanger, a freelance photographer, for a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building. Feature Photography: Manny Crisostomo of the Detroit Free Press, for his series of photographs depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
Fiction: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) Drama: The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein (Fireside Theatre) History: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press) History: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster) Biography or Autobiography: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf) Poetry: New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) General Nonfiction: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House) Music: Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds (C. F. Peters) premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
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