1994 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1994.

Journalism awards

 * Public Service:
 * Akron Beacon Journal, for its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.
 * Spot News Reporting:
 * Staff of The New York Times, for its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center.
 * Investigative Reporting:
 * Staff of The Providence Journal-Bulletin, for thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the Rhode Island court system.
 * Explanatory Journalism:
 * Ronald Kotulak of the Chicago Tribune, for his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science.
 * Beat Reporting:
 * Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld of The Detroit News, for dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
 * National Reporting:
 * Eileen Welsome of The Albuquerque Tribune, for stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago.
 * International Reporting:
 * Dallas Morning News Team of The Dallas Morning News, for its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations.
 * Feature Writing:
 * Isabel Wilkerson of The New York Times, for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
 * Commentary:
 * William Raspberry of The Washington Post, for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
 * Criticism:
 * Lloyd Schwartz of the Boston Phoenix, a weekly, for his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.
 * Editorial Writing:
 * R. Bruce Dold of the Chicago Tribune, for his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system.
 * Editorial Cartooning:
 * Michael P. Ramirez of The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, for his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues.
 * Spot News Photography:
 * Paul Watson of the Toronto Star, for his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.
 * Feature Photography:
 * Kevin Carter, a freelance photographer, for a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.

Letters awards

 * Fiction:
 * The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
 * History:
 * no award
 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt)
 * Poetry:
 * Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press)
 * General Non-Fiction:
 * Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick (Random House)

Arts awards
Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Kentucky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.
 * Drama:
 * Three Tall Women by Edward Albee (Dutton)
 * Music:
 * Of Reminiscences and Reflections by Gunther Schuller (Associated Music Publishers)