The Washington Post’s executive editor Marty Baron, left, and reporter Carol D. Leonnig listen to Leonnig’s editor speak about her Pulitzer. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
JOURNALISM
PUBLIC SERVICE
Winner: The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
Finalists: The Boston Globe; the Wall Street Journal
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
Winner: The Seattle Times staff
Finalists: The Buffalo News staff; the Los Angeles Times staff
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Winners: Eric Lipton of the New York Times; the Wall Street Journal staff
Finalists: David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa Eldeib of the Chicago Tribune
EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Winner: Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News
Finalists: John Ingold, Joe Amon and Lindsay Pierce of the Denver Post; Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman of Reuters
LOCAL REPORTING
Winner: Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif.
Finalists: Joe Mahr, Joseph Ryan and Matthew Walberg of the Chicago Tribune; Ziva Branstetter and Cary Aspinwall of the Tulsa World
NATIONAL REPORTING
Winner: Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post
Finalists: Marisa Taylor, Jonathan Landay and Ali Watkins of McClatchy Newspapers; Walt Bogdanich and Mike McIntire of the New York Times
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Winner: The New York Times staff
Finalists: Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti of the Los Angeles Times; Ned Parker and a team from Reuters
FEATURE WRITING
Winner: Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times
Finalists: Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe; Jennifer Gonnerman of the New Yorker
COMMENTARY
Winner: Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle
Finalists: David Carr of the New York Times; Matthew Kaminski of the Wall Street Journal
CRITICISM
Winner: Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times
Finalists: Manohla Dargis of the New York Times; Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice
EDITORIAL WRITING
Winner: Kathleen Kingsbury of the Boston Globe
Finalists: Tony Messenger and Kevin Horrigan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Jill Burcum of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis
EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Winner: Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News
Finalists: Kevin Kallaugher of the Baltimore Sun; Dan Perkins, drawing as “Tom Tomorrow” of Daily Kos
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Winner: St. Louis Post-Disptach photography staff
Finalists: Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev and Uriel Sinai of the New York Times; Tyler Hicks, Sergey Ponomarev and Wissam Nassar of the New York Times
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Winner: Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, the New York Times
Finalists: Bulent Kilic of Agence France-Presse; Bob Owen, Jerry Lara and Lisa Krantz of the San Antonio Express-News
BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC
FICTION
Winner: “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
Finalists: “Let Me Be Frank with You” by Richard Ford; “The Moor’s Account” by Laila Lalami; “Lovely, Dark, Deep” by Joyce Carol Oates
DRAMA
Winner: “Between Riverside and Crazy” by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Finalists: “Marjorie Prime” by Jordan Harrison; “Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, 3)” by Suzan-Lori Parks
HISTORY
Winner: “Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People” by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Finalists: “Empire of Cotton: A Global History” by Sven Beckert; “An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America” by Nick Bunker
BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Winner: “The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe” by David I. Kertzer
Finalists: “Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism” by Thomas Brothers; “Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928” by Stephen Kotkin
POETRY
Winner: “Digest” by Gregory Pardlo
Finalists: “Reel to Reel” by Alan Shapiro; “Compass Rose” by Arthur Sze
GENERAL NONFICTION
Winner: “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert
Finalists: “No Good Men Among the Living” by Anand Gopal; “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China” by Evan Osnos
MUSIC
Winner: “Anthracite Fields” by Julia Wolfe
Finalists: “Xiaoxiang” by Lei Liang; “The Aristos” by John Zorn