Apr 12, 2010
Every year since 1917 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in journalism, letters, drama, and music. Winners receive a $10,000 cash award and a certificate.
| Breaking News Photography | |
| Mary Chind (Photograph of a rescuer dangling in a harness trying to save a woman in waters beneath a dam) | |
| Breaking News Reporting | |
| Seattle Times (Coverage of shooting deaths of four police officers in a coffee house) | |
| Commentary | |
| Kathleen Parker (Witty columns on an array of political and moral issues) | |
| Criticism | |
| Sarah Kaufman (Imaginative approach to dance criticism) | |
| Editorial Cartooning | |
| Mark Fiore | |
| Editorial Writing | |
| Tod Robberson (Editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between northern and southern Dallas) | |
| Colleen McCain; William McKenzie | |
| Explanatory Reporting | |
| Michael Moss (Reporting on contaminated hamburger and other food safety issues) | |
| Feature Photography | |
| Craig F Walker (Portrait of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq) | |
| Feature Writing | |
| Gene Weingarten (Story about parents who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars) | |
| International Reporting | |
| Anthony Shadid (Series on Iraq as the United States departs and its people struggle with the nation's future) | |
| Investigative Reporting | |
| Sheri Fink (Story on urgent life and death decisions made by a hospital's exhausted doctors during Hurricane Katrina) | |
| Local Reporting | |
| Raquel Rutledge (Reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents) | |
| National Reporting | |
| New York Times (Hazardous use of cell phones computers and other devices while operating cars) | |
| Matt Richtel | |
| Public Service | |
| Bristol (VA) Herald Courier (Illuminating the murky mismanagement of natural gas royalties owed to landowners in Virginia) | |
| Biography | |
| TJ Stiles (The First Tycoon: The Epic Life Of Cornelius Vanderbilt) | |
| Drama | |
| Brian Yorkey (Next To Normal) | |
| and Tom Kitt | |
| Fiction | |
| Paul Harding (Tinkers) | |
| General Non-Fiction | |
| David E Hoffman (The Dead Hand: The Untold Story Of The Cold War Arms Race) | |
| History | |
| Liaquat Ahamed (Lords Of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World) | |
| Music | |
| Jennifer Higdon (Violin Concerto) | |
| Poetry | |
| Rae Armantrout (Versed) | |
| Special Citation | |
| Hank Williams (Craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity) | |