# 1994 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1994.

## Journalism awards

* Public Service:
** Akron Beacon Journal, for its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.
* Spot News Reporting:
** Staff of The New York Times, for its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center.
* Investigative Reporting:
** Staff of The Providence Journal-Bulletin, for thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the Rhode Island court system.
* Explanatory Journalism:
** Ronald Kotulak of the Chicago Tribune, for his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science.
* Beat Reporting:
** Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld of The Detroit News, for dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
* National Reporting:
** Eileen Welsome of The Albuquerque Tribune, for stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
* International Reporting:
** Dallas Morning News Team of The Dallas Morning News, for its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.
* Feature Writing:
** Isabel Wilkerson of The New York Times, for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
* Commentary:
** William Raspberry of The Washington Post, for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
* Criticism:
** Lloyd Schwartz of the Boston Phoenix, a weekly, for his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.
* Editorial Writing:
** R. Bruce Dold of the Chicago Tribune, for his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
* Editorial Cartooning:
** Michael P. Ramirez of The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, for his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues.
* Spot News Photography:
** Paul Watson of the Toronto Star, for his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.
* Feature Photography:
** Kevin Carter, a freelance photographer, for a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.

## Letters awards

* Fiction:
** The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
* History:
** no award
* Biography or Autobiography:
** W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt)
* Poetry:
** Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press)
* General Nonfiction:
** Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick (Random House)

## Arts awards

* Drama:
** Three Tall Women by Edward Albee (Dutton)
* Music:
** Of Reminiscences and Reflections by Gunther Schuller (Associated Music Publishers)
Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Kentucky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.