Apr 4, 2005
Every year since 1917 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in journalism, letters, drama, and music. Winners receive a $10,000 cash award and a certificate.
| Beat Reporting | |
| Amy Dockser Marcus (Unseen world of cancer survivors) | |
| Breaking News Photography | |
| Associated Press (Iraqi combat photography) | |
| Breaking News Reporting | |
| Star-Ledger Newark (Coverage of the resignation of a New Jersey governor) | |
| Commentary | |
| Connie Schultz (Columns that provided a voice for the underdog) | |
| Criticism | |
| Joe Morgenstern (Film reviews) | |
| Editorial Cartooning | |
| Nick Anderson | |
| Editorial Writing | |
| Tom Philp (Editorials on reclaiming California?s flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley) | |
| Explanatory Reporting | |
| Gareth Cook (Stem cell research reporting) | |
| Feature Photography | |
| Deanne Fitzmaurice (Oakland hospital?s effort to mend an Iraqi boy) | |
| Feature Writing | |
| Julia Keller (Account of a deadly ten second tornado) | |
| International Reporting | |
| Dele Olojede (Rwanda: A Decade After Genocide) | |
| Investigative Reporting | |
| Nigel Jaquiss (Exposing a former governor's sexual misconduct) | |
| National Reporting | |
| Walt Bogdanich (Corporate cover-up of railroad crossing accidents) | |
| Public Service | |
| Los Angeles Times (Exposing injustice at a major public hospital) | |
| Biography | |
| Mark Stevens (de Kooning: An American Master) | |
| Annalyn Swan | |
| Drama | |
| John Patrick Shanley (Doubt - A Parable) | |
| Fiction | |
| Marilynne Robinson (Gilead) | |
| General Non-Fiction | |
| Steve Coll (Ghost Wars) | |
| History | |
| David Hackett Fischer (Washington?s Crossing) | |
| Music | |
| Steven Stucky (Second Concerto for Orchestra) | |
| Poetry | |
| Ted Kooser (Delights & Shadows) | |