1998 Pulitzer Prize
A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998:
Journalism
| Public Service | Grand Forks Herald | "... for its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself..." |
| Beat Reporting | Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times | "... for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court..." |
| Spot News Photography | Martha Rial of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | "... for her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi." |
| Breaking News Reporting | Staff of the Los Angeles Times | "... for its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood, Los Angeles." |
| Commentary | Mike McAlary of the New York Daily News | "... for reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse." |
| Criticism | Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times | "... for her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature." |
| Editorial Cartooning | Stephen P. Breen of Asbury Park Press | - |
| Editorial Writing | Bernard L. Stein of The Riverdale Press, a New York City weekly journal | "... for his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents." |
| Explanatory Reporting | Paul Salopek of the Chicago Tribune | "... for his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people." |
| Feature Photography | Clarence Williams of the Los Angeles Times | "... for his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs." |
| Feature Writing | Thomas French of the St. Petersburg Times | "... for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders and eventual capture of Oba Chandler." |
| International Reporting | Staff of The New York Times | "... for its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. |
| Investigative Reporting | Gary Cohn and Will Englund of The Baltimore Sun | "... for their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled." |
| National Reporting | Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News | "... for their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms." |
Letters
- Biography or Autobiography
- * Personal History by Katharine Graham
- Fiction
- * American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- History
- * Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward Larson
- General Non-Fiction
- * Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Poetry
- * Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
- Drama
- * How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
- Music
- * String Quartet No. 2 by Aaron Jay Kernis
Special Awards and Citations
- Special Citation
- * George Gershwin - Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.