2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Full List

2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Full List

The prizes encompassed, among other topics, stories of abuse in the workplace; construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall; and a profile of Dylann Roof, who was charged with killing several people in a Charleston, S.C., church.

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The winner of the public service award — shared by New York Times journalists, seen here, and The New Yorker — exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators and brought them to account for long-suppressed allegations of coercion, according to the prize committee.CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times

Public Service

The New York Times, for reporting led by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Emily Steel and Michael S. Schmidt; and The New Yorker, for reporting by Ronan Farrow

Finalist The Kansas City Star


READ MORE: The coveted award for public service went to reporting on sexual harassment. | The Times won three awards, including for reporting on possible ties between Russia and President Trump’s inner circle.


Breaking News Reporting

Staff of The Press-Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Finalists Staff of The Houston Chronicle | Staff of The New York Times


Investigative Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

Finalists Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch of The Miami Herald | Tim Eberly of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.


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The prize for explanatory reporting was shared by the staff of USA Today, who reported on the consequences of building a border wall along the United States-Mexico border.CreditAndrew P. Scott/EPA, via Shutterstock

Explanatory Reporting

Staffs of The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network

Finalists Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times | Staff of ProPublica


Local Reporting

Staff of The Cincinnati Enquirer

Finalists Jason Grotto, Sandhya Kambhampati and Ray Long of The Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois | Staff of The Boston Globe


National Reporting

Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post

Finalists Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting | Brett Murphy of USA Today Network


International Reporting

Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato of Reuters

Finalists Staff of The Associated Press | Staff of BuzzFeed News


Feature Writing

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, GQ

Finalists John Woodrow Cox of The Washington Post | Norimitsu Onishi of The New York Times


Commentary

John Archibald of Alabama Media Group, Birmingham, Ala.

Finalists Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker | Steve Lopez of The Los Angeles Times


Criticism

Jerry Saltz of New York magazine

Finalists Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post | Manohla Dargis of The New York Times


Editorial Writing

Andie Dominick of The Des Moines Register

Finalists Editorial staff of The New York Times | Sharon Grigsby of The Dallas Morning News


Editorial Cartooning

Jake Halpern, freelance writer, and Michael Sloan, freelance cartoonist, The New York Times

Finalists Mark Fiore, freelance cartoonist | Mike Thompson of The Detroit Free Press


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The Pulitzer for breaking news photography went to, as the prize judges said, a chilling image of the moment of impact of a car attack during a racially charged protest in Charlottesville, Va.CreditRyan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress, via Associated Press

Breaking News Photography

Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.

Finalist Ivor Prickett, freelance photographer, The New York Times


Feature Photography

Photography Staff of Reuters

Finalists Kevin Frayer, freelance photographer, Getty Images | Lisa Krantz of The San Antonio Express-News | Meridith Kohut, freelance photographer, The New York Times


Fiction

“Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer

(Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company)

Finalists “In the Distance,” by Hernan Diaz (Coffee House Press) | “The Idiot,” by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press)


Drama

“Cost of Living,” by Martyna Majok

Finalists “Everybody,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | “The Minutes,” by Tracy Letts


History

“The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea,” by Jack E. Davis

(Liveright/W.W. Norton)

Finalists “Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics,” by Kim Phillips-Fein (Metropolitan Books) | “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” by Steven J. Ross (Bloomsbury)


Biography

“Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” by Caroline Fraser

(Metropolitan Books)

Finalists “Richard Nixon: The Life,” by John A. Farrell (Doubleday) | “Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character,” by Kay Redfield Jamison (Alfred A. Knopf)


Poetry

“Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016,” by Frank Bidart

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists “Incendiary Art,” by Patricia Smith (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press) | “semiautomatic,” by Evie Shockley (Wesleyan University Press)


General Nonfiction

“Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” by James Forman Jr.

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists “Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World,” by Suzy Hansen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | “The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us,” by Richard O. Prum (Doubleday)


Music

“DAMN.,” by Kendrick Lamar

Finalists “Quartet,” by Michael Gilbertson | “Sound From the Bench,” by Ted Hearne

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