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2018 Pulitzer Prize winners

April 16, 2018 at 4:06 p.m. EDT
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The complete list of 2018 Pulitzer Prize winners.

JOURNALISM

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Public service

The New York Times and the New Yorker

Breaking news reporting

Staff of the Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press-Democrat

Investigative reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

Explanatory reporting

Staffs of the Arizona Republic and USA Today Network

Local reporting

Staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer

National reporting

Staffs of the New York Times and The Washington Post

The Washington Post wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on Russian interference and the Senate race in Alabama

International reporting

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

Feature writing

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter for GQ

Commentary

John Archibald of Alabama Media Group (Birmingham, Ala.)

Criticism

Jerry Saltz of New York magazine

Editorial writing

Andie Dominick of the Des Moines Register

Editorial cartooning

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

Breaking news photography

Ryan Kelly of the Charlottesville Daily Progress

Feature photography

Photography staff of Reuters

BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC

Fiction

“Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer

Drama

“Cost of Living,” by Martyna Majok

History

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

Biography or autobiography

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

Poetry

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

General nonfiction

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

Music

“DAMN.,” by Kendrick Lamar

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