The 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners in 14 journalism and seven letters, drama and music categories were announced on Monday, April 15 at 3 p.m. Eastern. Two special citations were also awarded.<\/p>\n
The 2019 Prize winners are:<\/p>\n
South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For exposing failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the deadly shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.<\/p>\n Staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For immersive, compassionate coverage of the massacre at Pittsburgh\u2019s Tree of Life synagogue that captured the anguish and resilience of a community thrust into grief.<\/p>\n Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For consequential reporting on a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women for more than a quarter-century.<\/p>\n David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For an exhaustive 18-month investigation of President Donald Trump\u2019s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges.<\/p>\n Staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For a damning portrayal of the state\u2019s discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused\u2019s guilt.<\/p>\n Staff of The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For uncovering President Trump\u2019s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment.<\/p>\n Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For a revelatory yearlong series detailing the atrocities of the war in Yemen, including theft of food aid, deployment of child soldiers and torture of prisoners.<\/p>\n Staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For expertly exposing the military units and Buddhist villagers responsible for the systematic expulsion and murder of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, courageous coverage that landed its reporters in prison.<\/p>\n Hannah Dreier of ProPublica<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For a series of powerful, intimate narratives that followed Salvadoran immigrants on New York\u2019s Long Island whose lives were shattered by a botched federal crackdown on the international criminal gang MS-13.<\/p>\n Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For bold columns that exposed the malfeasance and injustice of forcing poor rural Missourians charged with misdemeanor crimes to pay unaffordable fines or be sent to jail.<\/p>\n Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.<\/p>\n Brent Staples of The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For editorials written with extraordinary moral clarity that charted the racial fault lines in the United States at a polarizing moment in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Darrin Bell, freelancer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For beautiful and daring editorial cartoons that took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration.<\/p>\n Photography Staff of Reuters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For brilliant photo storytelling of the tragic famine in Yemen, shown through images in which beauty and composure are intertwined with devastation. (Moved by the jury from Breaking News Photography, where it was originally entered.)<\/p>\n The Overstory<\/em>, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n An ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them.<\/p>\n Fairview<\/em>, by Jackie Sibblies Drury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n A hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors\u2019 community to face deep-seated prejudices.<\/p>\n Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom<\/em>, by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A breathtaking history that demonstrates the scope of Frederick Douglass\u2019 influence through deep research on his writings, his intellectual evolution and his relationships.<\/p>\n The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i>by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A panoramic view of the personal trials and artistic triumphs of the father of the Harlem Renaissance and the movement he inspired.<\/p>\n Be With,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Forrest Gander (New Directions)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A collection of elegies that grapple with sudden loss, and the difficulties of expressing grief and yearning for the departed.<\/p>\n Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America<\/em>,\u00a0by Eliza Griswold\u00a0(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate fracking.<\/p>\n p r i s m<\/em>, by Ellen Reid<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A bold new operatic work that uses sophisticated vocal writing and striking instrumental timbres to confront difficult subject matter: the effects of sexual and emotional abuse. Libretto by Roxie Perkins.<\/p>\nBreaking News Reporting<\/em><\/h3>\n
Investigative Reporting<\/em><\/h3>\n
Explanatory Reporting<\/em><\/h3>\n
Local Reporting<\/em><\/h3>\n
National Reporting<\/em><\/h3>\n
International Reporting<\/em><\/h3>\n
Feature Writing<\/em><\/h3>\n
Commentary<\/em><\/h3>\n
Criticism<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Editorial Writing<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Editorial Cartooning<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Breaking News Photography<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Feature Photography<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Letters, Drama and Music<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Drama<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
History<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Biography<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Poetry<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
General Nonfiction<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Music<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Special Citations<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n