Posttraumatic stress disorder
Chivers won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing as an individual. The citation read "For showing, through an artful accumulation of fact and detail, that a Marine’s postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a stereotypical case of PTSD (Posttraumatic stress disorder)." His winning article, "The Fighter", in "The New York Times Magazine" tells the story of "a veteran infantry combat Marine who was struggling with adjusting to life after serving in the war in Afghanistan".