The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced:
Letters, Drama and Music Awards:
FICTION: The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
DRAMA: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
HISTORY: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)
BIOGRAPHY: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
POETRY: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
GENERAL NONFICTION: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
MUSIC: Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman
Journalism:
PUBLIC SERVICE: The Wall Street Journal
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING: The Staff of The Oregonian, Portland
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham (Ala.) News
EXPLANATORY REPORTING: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times
LOCAL REPORTING: Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald
NATIONAL REPORTING: Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: The Wall Street Journal Staff
FEATURE WRITING: Andrea Elliott of The New York Times
COMMENTARY: Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CRITICISM: Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly
EDITORIAL WRITING: Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of the New York Daily News
EDITORIAL CARTOONING: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, NY
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: Oded Balilty of the Associated Press
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Renee C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee