1979 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1979.
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- The Point Reyes Light, a California weekly. For its investigation of Synanon, (written by Dr. Richard Ofshe).[1]
- Local General or Spot News Reporting:
- The Pacific Southwest air linerwith a small plane over its city.
- The
- Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
- Pottsville Republican (Pennsylvania), for stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.
- National Reporting:
- James Risser of the Des Moines Register, for a series on farming damage to the environment.
- James Risser of the
- International Reporting:
- Richard Ben Cramer of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for reports from the Middle East.
- Feature Writing:
- Jon D. Franklin, science writer of The Baltimore Evening Sun, for an account of brain surgery.
- Commentary:
- Criticism:
- Paul Gapp, architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune.
- Editorial Writing:
- Washington Star.
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock) of The Washington Post, for the body of his work.
- Spot News Photography:
- Pottstown Mercury(Pennsylvania), for a series called Tragedy on Sanatoga Road.
- Feature Photography:
- Staff Photographers of the Boston Herald American, for photographic coverage of the blizzard of 1978.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Drama:
- Buried Child by Sam Shepard (Urizen)
- History:
- The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford University Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Days of Sorrow and Pain: Macmillan Publishers (United States))
- Days of Sorrow and Pain:
- Poetry:
- Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren (Random House)
- General Non-Fiction:
- Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University Press)
- Music:
- Aftertones of Infinity by Joseph Schwantner (C. F. Peters)
first performed by the American Composers Orchestra on January 29, 1979, in Alice Tully Hall New York City.
- Aftertones of Infinity by Joseph Schwantner (C. F. Peters)
References
- ^ John J. O'Connor. "CBS's Attack on Fear", The New York Times, October 10, 1984.
T. S. Cook's script is based on the book The Light in Synanon, in which Dave Mitchell, Cathy Mitchell and Dr. Richard Ofshe recount the details of covering a story that won them a 1979 Pulitzer Prize for public- service reporting.