The winners of the 99th Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 20. The Pulitzer Prize is one of the highest awards given in journalism and the arts. At the presentation, Pulitzer administrator Mike Pride said that almost 3,000 entries had been reviewed to decide this year’s winners.
All of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners
Here are the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners:
Gold medal for Public Service
The Post and Courier of Charleston, SC
Breaking News Reporting
Staff of the Seattle Times
Investigative Reporting
Eric Lipton, New York Times
Staff of the Wall Street Journal
Explanatory Journalism
Zachary R. Mider, Bloomberg News
Local Reporting
Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch, and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, California
National Reporting
Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post
International Reporting
New York Times Staff
Feature Writing
Dianna Marcum, Los Angeles Times
Commentary
Lisa Faulkenberg, Houston Chronicle
Criticism
Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Editorial Writing
Kathleen Kingsbury, Boston Globe
Editorial Cartooning
Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
Breaking News Photography
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff
Feature Photography
Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, New York Times
Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Drama
“Between Riverside and Crazy” by Stephen Adly Guirgis
History
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Biography
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
Poetry
Digest by Gregory Pardio
General Nonfiction
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Music
“Anthracite Fields” by Julia Wolfe
