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 Non-Fiction:
 * The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Belknap/Harvard University Press)

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