# 1991 Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes for 1991 included not only awards given in all categories, but two separate awards were given for International Reporting:

## Journalism awards

* Public Service:
** Des Moines Register, For reporting by Jane Schorer that, with the victim's consent, named a woman who had been raped—which prompt widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims.
* Spot News Reporting:
** Staff of The Miami Herald, For stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
* Investigative Reporting:
** Joseph T. Hallinan and Susan M. Headden of The Indianapolis Star, For their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state.
* Explanatory Journalism:
** Susan C. Faludi of The Wall Street Journal, For a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., that revealed the human costs of high finance.
* Beat Reporting:
** Natalie Angier of The New York Times, For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
* National Reporting:
** Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe of Gannett News Service, For reporting that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by medical examiners.
* International Reporting:
** Serge Schmemann of The New York Times, For his coverage of the reunification of Germany.
* International Reporting:
** Caryle Murphy of The Washington Post, For her dispatches from occupied Kuwait, some of which she filed while in hiding from Iraqi authorities.
* Feature Writing:
** Sheryl James of the St. Petersburg Times, For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
* Commentary:
** Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post, For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
* Criticism:
** David Shaw of the Los Angeles Times, For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.
* Editorial Writing:
** Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy of The Birmingham News, For their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.
* Editorial Cartooning:
** Jim Borgman of The Cincinnati Enquirer
* Spot News Photography:
** Greg Marinovich of Associated Press, For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
* Feature Photography:
** William Snyder of The Dallas Morning News, For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania.

## Letters awards

* Fiction:
** Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
* History:
** A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Alfred A. Knopf)
* Biography or Autobiography:
** Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Clarkson N. Potter)
* Poetry:
** Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn (Alfred A. Knopf)
* General Nonfiction:
** The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Belknap/Harvard University Press)

## Arts awards

* Drama:
** Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon (Random House)
* Music:
** Symphony by Shulamit Ran (Theodore Presser Company)
Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990.