2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism

PUBLIC SERVICE: The Washington Post

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: STEVE FAINARU, The Washington Post

NATIONAL REPORTING: JO BECKER and BARTON GELLMAN, The Washington Post

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: WALT BOGDANICH and JAKE HOOKER, New York Times

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Chicago Tribune staff

FEATURE WRITING: GENE WEINGARTEN, Washington Post

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING: Washington Post

EXPLANATORY REPORTING: AMY HARMON, New York Times

LOCAL REPORTING: DAVID UMHOEFER, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

COMMENTARY: STEVE PEARLSTEIN, The Washington Post

CRITICISM: MARK FEENEY, The Boston Globe

EDITORIAL CARTOONING: MICHAEL RAMIREZ, Investor’s Business Daily

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: ADREES LATIF, Reuters

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: PRESTON GANNAWAY, Concord Monitor

2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music

HISTORY: DANIEL WALKER HOWE, What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848

BIOGRAPHY: JOHN MATTESON, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

FICTION: JUNOT DIAZ, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

GENERAL NONFICTION: SAUL FRIEDLANDER, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

DRAMA: TRACY LETTS, August: Osage County

POETRY: ROBERT HASS, Time and Materials; AND PHILIP SCHULTZ, Failure

MUSIC: DAVID LANG, The Little Match Girl Passion

SPECIAL CITATION: BOB DYLAN