The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality. List of winners:
1979: Jon D. Franklin , Baltimore Evening Sun , for an account of brain surgery .
1984: Peter Mark Rinearson , Seattle Times, for "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
1985: Alice Steinbach , Baltimore SunThe Baltimore Sun is the major newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, with a daily press run of about 430,000 copies, and a Sunday run of 540,000 copies. It was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer Arunah Shepherdson Abell. The Abell family owned the paper thro, for her account of a blind boy's world, "A Boy of Unusual Vision."
19861986 is a common year starting on Wednesday. Events January January 1 Spain and Portugal enter the European Community January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles. January 9 After losing a pa: John Camp , St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch , for his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the DepressionThe Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in the United States following Black Thursday, the Wall Street panic of October 1929. On October 24, 1929, share prices on Wall Street collapsed catastrophically, setting off a chain of bankruptc.
19871987 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January January 1 Nunavut's capital changes it name to Iqaluit from Frobisher Bay. January 3 Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. January 4 An Amtrak train: Steve Twomey , Philadelphia InquirerThe Philadelphia Inquirer is the major daily newspaper for the Philadelphia area. It is the third oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. Circulation in 2003 was 387,692 daily and over 778,000 on Sundays. The Philadelphia Inquirer compositi, for his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrierUSS John C. Stennis (left), and HMS Illustrious (right), showing the difference in size between a supercarrier and a typical aircraft carrier. An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft. Aircraft carriers thus allow.
19881988 is a leap year starting on Friday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 2 Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 Australia celebrates its bicentennial day.: Jacqui Banaszynski , St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch , for her moving series about the life and death of an AIDSAIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome sometimes written Aids is a human disease characterized by progressive destruction of the body's immune system. It is widely accepted that AIDS results from infection with HIV victim in a rural farm community.
1990: Dave Curtin , Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph , for a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home.
1991: Sheryl James , St. Petersburg Times (Florida) , for a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
1992:Howell Raines, New York Times, for "Grady's Gift," an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship.
1993: George Lardner Jr. , Washington Post, for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.
1994: Isabel Wilkerson , 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.
1996: Rick Bragg , New York Times, for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.
1997: Lisa Pollak , Baltimore Sun, for her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
1998: Thomas French , St. Petersburg Times (Florida) , for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.
1999: Angelo B. Henderson , Wall Street Journal, for his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime.
2000: J.R. Moehringer , Los Angeles Times, for his portrait of Gee's Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.
2001: Tom Hallman, Jr. , The Oregonian ( Portland, Oregon), for his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance.
2002: Barry Siegel , Los Angeles Times, for his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case.
2003: Sonia Nazario , Los Angeles Times, for "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.
