The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, drama and music were announced on April 20 at Columbia University. The Library provides access to many of these newspapers through its databases. Any of the Prize winning books that are not available in our Library are available to UWW students, faculty and staff from other UW libraries via Universal Borrowing.
JOURNALISM:
- Public Service – Las Vegas Sun
- Breaking News Reporting – The New York Times Staff
- Investigative Reporting – David Barstow of The New York Times
- Explanatory Reporting – Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times
- Local Reporting – Detroit Free Press Staff and Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of the East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ
- National Reporting – St. Petersburg Times Staff
- International Reporting – The New York Times Staff
- Feature Writing – Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times
- Commentary – Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post
- Criticism – Holland Cotter of The New York Times
- Editorial Writing – Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY
- Editorial Cartooning – Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune
- Breaking News Photography – Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald
- Feature Photography – Damon Winter of The New York Times
LETTERS, DRAMA and MUSIC:
- Fiction – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
- Drama – Ruined by Lynn Nottage
- History – The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Biography – American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
- Poetry – The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
- General Nonfiction – Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
- Music – Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA (Boosey & Hawkes)