Apr 17, 2006
Every year since 1917 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in journalism, letters, drama, and music. Winners receive a $10,000 cash award and a certificate.
Who Won a Pulitzer Prize In 2006?
| Beat Reporting | |
| Dana Priest (Reports on secret black site prisons) | |
| Breaking News Photography | |
| Dallas Morning News (Aftermath of Hurrican Katrina in New Orleans) | |
| Breaking News Reporting | |
| Times-Picayune New Orleans (Coverage of Hurrican Katrina) | |
| Commentary | |
| Nicholas D Kristof (On genocide in Darfur) | |
| Criticism | |
| Robin Givhan (Fashion criticism) | |
| Editorial Cartooning | |
| Mike Lukovich | |
| Editorial Writing | |
| Rick Attig (Abuses inside an Oregon mental hospital) | |
| Doug Bates | |
| Explanatory Reporting | |
| David Finkel (United States atttempt to bring democracy to Yemen) | |
| Feature Photography | |
| Todd Heisler (Funerals for Colorado Marines) | |
| Feature Writing | |
| Jim Sheeler (Marine who helps families cope with loss of soldiers killed in Iraq) | |
| International Reporting | |
| Joseph Kahn (Stories on the evolving justice system in China) | |
| Jim Yardley | |
| Investigative Reporting | |
| Susan Schmidt (Probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff) | |
| James V Grimaldi; R Jeffrey Smith | |
| National Reporting | |
| San Diego Union Tribune (Disclosure of bribe taking by Rep. Randy Cunningham) | |
| Marcus Stern; Jerry Kammer | |
| Public Service | |
| Sun Herald - Biloxi (Comprehensive coverage of Hurrican Katrina) | |
| Public Service | |
| Times-Picayune New Orleans (Coverage of Hurrican Katrina and its aftermath) | |
| Biography | |
| Kai Bird (American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer) |    |
| Martin J Sherwin | |
| Drama | |
| NO AWARD | |
| Fiction | |
| Geraldine Brooks (March) | |
| General Non-Fiction | |
| Caroline Elkins (Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya) | |
| History | |
| David M Oshinsky (Polio: An American Story) | |
| Music | |
| Yehudi Wyner (Piano Concerto: Chiavi In Mano) | |
| Poetry | |
| Claudia Emerson (Late Wife) | |
| Special Citation | |
| Thelonious Monk (Body of distinguished and innovative musical composition) | |
| Special Citation | |
| Edmund S Morgan (Influential work as an American historian) | |
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