Editing Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

{{Short description|American journalism award}}
{{Pulitzer}}
The '''Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing''' is one of the fourteen American [[Pulitzer Prizes]] that are annually awarded for Journalism. It has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of [[feature writing]] giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality.

Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.<ref name=prize/>

==Winners and citations==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
!Year
!Name(s)
!Publication
!width=50% |Rationale
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!'''[[1979 Pulitzer Prize|1979]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Jon|Franklin}}'''
|'''''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'''''
|'''"for an [http://www.jonfranklin.com/stories-2/mrs-kellys-monster account] of [[brain surgery]]."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[1980 Pulitzer Prize|1980]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Madeleine|Blais}}'''
|'''''[[Miami Herald]]'''''
|'''"for [http://reprints.longform.org/zepps-last-stand Zepp's Last Stand]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Bonnie M.|Anderson}}
|''[[Miami Herald]]''
|"for 'Execution of My Father.'"
|-
|{{sortname|John|Sandford|dab=novelist}}{{efn|Under the pseudonym John Camp.}}
|''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]''
|"for a series on Indians."
|-
|{{sortname|Saul|Pett}}
|[[Associated Press]]
|"On the [[Snail darter controversy|snail darter]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[1981 Pulitzer Prize|1981]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Teresa|Carpenter}}'''
|'''''[[The Village Voice]]'''''
|'''"for her [http://reprints.longform.org/death-of-a-playmate account] of the death of actress-model [[Dorothy Stratten]]."'''{{efn|name=Cooke|Cooke was originally announced as the winner of this award, which was revoked after her story about an 8-year-old heroin addict was determined to be fabricated. Carpenter was then announced as winner}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|<s>'''{{sortname|Janet|Cooke}}'''</s>
|<s>'''''[[The Washington Post]]'''''</s>
|{{efn|name=Cooke}}
|-
|{{sortname|Madeleine|Blais}}
|''[[Miami Herald]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Douglas|Swanson}}
|''[[Dallas Times Herald]]''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1982 Pulitzer Prize|1982]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Saul|Pett}}'''
|'''[[Associated Press]]'''
|'''"for an article profiling the federal bureaucracy."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Buzz|Bissinger}}
|''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]''
|"for his account of a near air crash and its aftermath."
|-
|{{sortname|Erik|Lacitis}}
|''[[The Seattle Times]]''
|"for his series on abortion."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1983 Pulitzer Prize|1983]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Nan C.|Robertson}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for her [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/19/magazine/toxic-shock.html?pagewanted=all memorable and medically detailed account] of her struggle with [[toxic shock syndrome]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Don|Colburn}}
|''[[The Everett Herald]]''
|"for his documentation of the work of the nation's [[Harborview Medical Center|largest burn treatment center]] in Seattle, Washington."
|-
|{{sortname|James|Ricci}}
|''[[Detroit Free Press]]''
|"for his extraordinary account of an organ donation 'Kelly's Gift,' and the effects it had on the lives of four strangers."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[1984 Pulitzer Prize|1984]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Peter|Rinearson}}'''
|'''''[[The Seattle Times]]'''''
|'''"for '[https://web.archive.org/web/20180204185150/http://old.seattletimes.com/news/business/757/ Making It Fly],' his account of the new [[Boeing 757]] jetliner."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Charles|Bowden}}
|''[[Tucson Citizen]]''
|"for his stories on illegal immigrants, sexual abuse of children and the deaths of two men."
|-
|{{sortname|Jay William|Hamburg}}
|''[[Birmingham Post-Herald]]''
|"for a series documenting the world of a young boxer and his manager."
|-
|{{sortname|Nancy|Tracy}}
|''[[Hartford Courant]]''
|"for her moving account of Meg Casey, a victim of [[Progeria|premature aging]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1985 Pulitzer Prize|1985]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Alice|Steinbach}}'''
|'''''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'''''
|'''"for her account of a blind boy's world, '[http://reprints.longform.org/a-boy-of-unusual-vision-alice-steinbach A Boy of Unusual Vision].'"'''
|-
|{{sortname|Scott|Kraft|dab=journalist}}
|[[Associated Press]]
|"for his story about a family's search for the man who raped their daughter."
|-
|{{sortname|Michele|Lesie}}
|''[[The Morning Journal]]''
|"for her story of Jennifer Brandt, teen-age suicide."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1986 Pulitzer Prize|1986]]'''
|'''{{sortname|John|Sandford|dab=novelist}}'''
|'''''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]'''''
|'''"for his [https://longform.org/posts/life-on-the-land-an-american-farm-family five-part series] examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the [[Great Depression|Depression]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|David Lee|Preston}}
|''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
|"for his account of how, by means of a trip through Germany and Eastern Europe, he managed to come to terms with his father's experiences in the Holocaust."
|-
|{{sortname|Irene|Virag}}
|''[[Newsday]]''
|"for her elegantly written and sensitive stories about the aspirations and accomplishments of ordinary people."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=6 |'''[[1987 Pulitzer Prize|1987]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Steve|Twomey}}'''
|'''''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'''''
|'''"for his illuminating profile of life aboard an [[aircraft carrier]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Barry|Bearak}}
|''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|"for three gracefully written stories dealing respectively with a prison lawsuit, a family murder and an aging stand-up comic."
|-
|{{sortname|Michael|Connelly}}
|rowspan=3 |''[[Sun Sentinel]]''
|rowspan=3 |"for 'Into the Storm: The Story of Flight 191,' a sensitive reconstruction of an [[Delta Air Lines Flight 191|airplane crash]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Robert|McClure|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Malinda|Reink}}
|-
|{{sortname|Alex S.|Jones}}
|''[[The New York Times]]''
|"for 'The Fall of the House of [[Barry Bingham Jr.|Bingham]],' a skillful and sensitive report of a powerful newspaper family's bickering and how it led to the sale of a famed media empire."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1988 Pulitzer Prize|1988]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Jacqui|Banaszynski}}'''
|'''''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]'''''
|'''"for her moving series about the life and death of an [[AIDS]] victim in a rural farm community."'''
|-
|{{sortname|John|Dorschner}}
|''[[Miami Herald]]''
|"for richly detailed stories about a violent neighborhood feud, ethnic tensions in the [[Miami Police Department]] and Holocaust survivors in South Florida."
|-
|{{sortname|Lynne|Duke}}
|''[[Miami Herald]]''
|"for her powerful story about life at a housing project overrun by the drug crack."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[1989 Pulitzer Prize|1989]]'''
|'''{{sortname|David|Zucchino}}'''
|'''''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'''''
|'''"for his richly compelling series, 'Being Black in [[South Africa]].'"'''
|-
|{{sortname|Tad|Bartimus}}
|[[Associated Press]]
|"for her story about the accidental drowning of three brothers and the effect it had on their [[Buckner, Missouri|small Missouri town]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Bob|Ehlert}}
|''[[Minnesota Star Tribune|The Minnesota Star Tribune]]''
|"for his stories about a local priest accused of sexual abuse."
|-
|{{sortname|Loretta|Tofani}}
|''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
|"for stories about a heroin addict's pregnancy and the birth of her [[Neonatal withdrawal|addicted infant]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1990 Pulitzer Prize|1990]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Dave|Curtin}}'''
|'''''[[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)|The Gazette]]'''''
|'''"for a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Mark|Kriegel}}
|''[[New York Daily News]]''
|"for 'The People's Court,' a detailed account of the game of basketball as it is played on New York City playgrounds."
|-
|{{sortname|Jay|Reed}}
|''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]''
|"for a poignant series about his return to Vietnam."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1991 Pulitzer Prize|1991]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Sheryl|James}}'''
|'''''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]'''''
|'''"for a compelling series about a mother who [[Child abandonment|abandoned her newborn child]] and how it affected her life and those of others."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Tad|Bartimus}}
|[[Associated Press]]
|"for her moving account of her father's death from lung cancer."
|-
|{{sortname|Wil|Haygood}}
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for three illuminating portraits of African-American life."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1992 Pulitzer Prize|1992]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Howell|Raines}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for '[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/magazine/grady-s-gift.html?pagewanted=all Grady's Gift],' an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Frank|Bruni}}
|''[[Detroit Free Press]]''
|"for his profile of a child molester that challenged many assumptions about sexual abuse."
|-
|{{sortname|Sheryl|James}}
|''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]''
|"for her gripping account of the effort to transplant the organs of a dead boy and turn the tragedy of his death into a gift of life for others."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1993 Pulitzer Prize|1993]]'''
|'''{{sortname|George|Lardner}}'''
|'''''[[The Washington Post]]'''''
|'''"for his unflinching examination of his [[Murder of Kristin Lardner|daughter's murder]] by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Hank|Stuever}}
|''[[The Albuquerque Tribune]]''
|"for his lively and vivid reporting of the celebration of a young couple's wedding."
|-
|{{sortname|Judith|Valente}}
|''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
|"for her moving story about a family brought together by [[AIDS]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[1994 Pulitzer Prize|1994]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Isabel|Wilkerson}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for her profile of a fourth-grader from [[South Side, Chicago|Chicago's South Side]] and for two stories reporting on the [[Great Flood of 1993|Midwestern flood of 1993]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Mark|Feeney}}
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for his provocative profile of former President [[Richard Nixon]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Scott|Higham}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[Miami Herald]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for their chilling portrait of seven suburban teenagers accused of [[Murder of Bobby Kent|murdering a friend]]."
|-
|{{sortname|April|Witt}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[1995 Pulitzer Prize|1995]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Ron|Suskind}}'''
|'''''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'''''
|'''"for his [[A Hope in the Unseen|stories about inner-city honor students]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], and their determination to survive and prosper."'''
|-
|{{sortname|David|Finkel}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for his story examining middle class flight from the District of Columbia, and for two profiles: of a family that watches television 17 hours a day, and of a [[Rush Limbaugh]] fan."
|-
|{{sortname|Anne|Hull}}
|''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]''
|"for her account of a local businessman's secret life of drug addiction and consorting with prostitutes."
|-
|{{sortname|Fen|Montaigne}}
|''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
|"for stories about people who enjoy the outdoors, especially those with a passion for fishing."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1996 Pulitzer Prize|1996]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Rick|Bragg}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Richard|Meyer|dab=journalist}}
|''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|"for 'Buried Alive,' his chilling profile of a woman's desperate attempts to communicate after being left mute and paralyzed by strokes."
|-
|{{sortname|Hank|Stueve}}
|''[[The Albuquerque Tribune]]''
|"for his detailed and highly personal account of returning to his hometown of Oklahoma City after the [[Oklahoma City bombing|bombing]] there."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1997 Pulitzer Prize|1997]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Lisa|Pollak}}'''
|'''''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'''''
|'''"for her compelling portrait of a [[John Hirschbeck|baseball umpire]] who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly [[Adrenoleukodystrophy|genetic disease]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Jeffrey|Fleishman}}
|''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
|"for his versatile storytelling, notably including an account of the flight of 15 Buddhist monks from Tibet through the Himalayas."
|-
|{{sortname|Julia|Prodis}}
|[[Associated Press]]
|"for her trio of vivid stories about three teenagers on a deadly journey, a photograph from the [[Oklahoma City bombing]], and a vacuum cleaner that catches prairie dogs."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1998 Pulitzer Prize|1998]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Thomas|French}}'''
|'''''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]'''''
|'''"for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a [[Oba Chandler|mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation]], and the three-year investigation into their murders."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Steve|Giegerich}}
|''[[Asbury Park Press]]''
|"for his startling and original story about a bond that formed between four medical students and the cadaver they studied."
|-
|{{sortname|J. R.|Moehringer}}
|''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|"for 'The Champ,' an extraordinary documentation of a [[Bob Satterfield|heavyweight boxer]]'s glory days and his fall."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[1999 Pulitzer Prize|1999]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Angelo|Henderson}}'''
|'''''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'''''
|'''"for his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Tom|Hallman}}
|''[[The Oregonian]]''
|"for his unique profile of a man struggling to recover from a brain injury."
|-
|{{sortname|Eric|Wee}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for his moving account of a Washington lawyer whose collection of postcards helps to preserve his memories of a fleetingly happy childhood."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2000 Pulitzer Prize|2000]]'''
|'''{{sortname|J. R.|Moehringer}}'''
|'''''[[Los Angeles Times]]'''''
|'''"for his [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-22-mn-21385-story.html portrait] of [[Boykin, Alabama|Gee's Bend]], an isolated river community in [[Alabama]] where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it."'''
|-
|{{sortname|David|Finkel}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for his moving account of a woman forced to choose between staying with her family in a [[Stenkovec camp|Macedonian refugee camp]], or leaving to marry a man in France."
|-
|{{sortname|Anne|Hull}}
|''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]''
|"for her quietly powerful stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab shacks, in pursuit of a better life."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2001 Pulitzer Prize|2001]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Tom|Hallman Jr.}}'''
|'''''[[The Oregonian]]'''''
|'''"for his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year-old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Robin Gaby|Fisher}}
|''[[The Star-Ledger]]''
|"for her inspirational stories that chronicled the care and recovery of two students critically burned in a [[Boland Hall fire|dormitory fire]] at [[Seton Hall University]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Richard|Meyer|dab=journalist}}
|''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|"for his elegant, insightful portrait of a Tennessee family whose son [[1995 Richland High School shooting|shot three people at his high school]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2002 Pulitzer Prize|2002]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Barry|Siegel}}'''
|'''''[[Los Angeles Times]]'''''
|'''"for his [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-30-mn-18995-story.html humane and haunting portrait] of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the [[Robert Hilder|judge who heard the case]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Ellen|Barry|dab=journalist}}
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for her empathetic and illuminating portrait of teenaged Sudanese boys resettled in the U.S. who must engage with American culture."
|-
|{{sortname|David|Maraniss}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for his moving and textured reconstruction of the [[September 11 attacks|tragic events of September 11th]], described through the actions of several key participants."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2003 Pulitzer Prize|2003]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Sonia|Nazario}}'''
|'''''[[Los Angeles Times]]'''''
|'''"for '[http://www.latimes.com/nation/immigration/la-fg-enriques-journey-sg-storygallery.html Enrique's Journey],' her touching, exhaustively reported story of a [[Honduras|Honduran]] boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Connie|Schultz}}
|''[[The Plain Dealer]]''
|"for her moving story about a wrongfully convicted man who refused to succumb to anger or bitterness."
|-
|{{sortname|David|Stabler}}
|''[[The Oregonian]]''
|"for his sensitive, sometimes surprising chronicle of a teenage prodigy's struggle with a musical talent that proved to be both a gift and a problem."
|-
!rowspan=5 |'''[[2004 Pulitzer Prize|2004]]'''
|colspan=3 |''No award''
|-
|{{sortname|Robert|Hotz}}
|''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|"for his lucid story on the efforts to unravel the mystery of why the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|''Columbia'' space shuttle fell]] from the sky."
|-
|{{sortname|Anne|Hull}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[The Washington Post]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for their intimate exploration of the lives of wounded soldiers [[Iraq War|returning from Iraq]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Tamara|Jones|dab=journalist}}
|-
|{{sortname|Patricia|Wen}}
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for her story chronicling more aggressive efforts by states to terminate the rights of parents."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2005 Pulitzer Prize|2005]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Julia|Keller}}'''
|'''''[[Chicago Tribune]]'''''
|'''"for her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a [[Tornado outbreak of April 20, 2004|deadly 10-second tornado]] that ripped through [[Utica, Illinois]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Robin Gaby|Fisher}}
|''[[The Star-Ledger]]''
|"for her exhaustive look inside the lives of students at an alternative high school, shattering stereotypes and delineating memorable characters."
|-
|{{sortname|Anne|Hull}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for her clear, sensitive, tirelessly reported stories on what it means to be young and gay in modern America."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2006 Pulitzer Prize|2006]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Jim|Sheeler}}'''
|'''''[[Rocky Mountain News]]'''''
|'''"for his poignant story on a [[United States Marines|Marine]] [[Major (rank)|major]] who helps the families of comrades [[Casualties of the Iraq War|killed in Iraq]] cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Dan|Barry|dab=reporter}}
|''[[The New York Times]]''
|"for his rich portfolio of pieces capturing slices of life in [[Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans|hurricane-battered New Orleans]] as well as his own New York City."
|-
|{{sortname|Mary|Schmich}}
|''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
|"for her intimate and compelling story about a [[Joan Lefkow|federal judge]] whose husband and mother were murdered by an angry former plaintiff."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2007 Pulitzer Prize|2007]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Andrea|Elliott}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for her [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/series/muslimsinamerica/index.html intimate, richly textured portrait] of an immigrant [[imam]] striving to find his way and serve his faithful in America."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Christopher|Goffard}}
|''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]''
|"for his fresh and compelling stories about a young public defender and his daily challenges."
|-
|{{sortname|Inara|Verzemnieks}}
|''[[The Oregonian]]''
|"for her witty and perceptive portfolio of features on an array of everyday topics."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2008 Pulitzer Prize|2008]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Gene|Weingarten}}'''
|'''''[[The Washington Post]]'''''
|'''"for his [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html chronicling] of a [[Joshua Bell|world-class violinist]] who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Thomas|Curwen|dab=journalist}}
|''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|"for his vivid account of a grizzly bear attack and the recovery of the two victims."
|-
|{{sortname|Kevin|Vaughan|dab=journalist}}
|''[[Rocky Mountain News]]''
|"for his sensitive retelling of a school bus and train collision at a [[Auburn, Colorado|rural crossing]] in 1961 that killed 20 children."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2009 Pulitzer Prize|2009]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Lane|DeGregory}}'''
|'''''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]'''''
|'''"for her [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204162200/http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece moving, richly detailed story] of a neglected little girl, found in a roach-infested room, unable to talk or feed herself, who was adopted by a new family committed to her nurturing."'''
|-
|{{sortname|John|Barry|dab=journalist}}
|''[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]''
|"for his concise, captivating story about a [[Winter (dolphin)|rescued baby dolphin]] that needed a new tail and became a famous survivor, illuminating the mysterious connection between human beings and animals."
|-
|{{sortname|Amy Ellis|Nutt}}
|''[[The Star-Ledger]]''
|"for her poignant, deeply reported story of a [[Jon Sarkin|chiropractor who suffered a severe stroke]] following brain surgery and became a wildly creative artist, in many ways estranged from his former self."
|-
|{{sortname|Diane|Suchetka}}
|''[[The Plain Dealer]]''
|"for her harrowing tale of a mechanic whose arms were reattached after being severed in an accident, a disciplined narrative that takes readers on the man's painful personal and physical journey to recover."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2010 Pulitzer Prize|2010]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Gene|Weingarten}}'''
|'''''[[The Washington Post]]'''''
|'''"for his [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html haunting story] about parents, from varying walks of life, who accidentally kill their children by [[Child vehicular heat stroke deaths|forgetting them in cars]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Dan|Barry|Dan Barry (reporter)}}
|''[[The New York Times]]''
|"for his portfolio of closely observed pieces that movingly capture how the [[Great Recession]] is changing lives and relationships in America."
|-
|rowspan=2 |{{sortname|Sheri|Fink}}
|''[[The New York Times Magazine]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for a [[Five Days at Memorial|story]] that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by [[Ochsner Baptist Medical Center|one hospital]]'s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of [[Hurricane Katrina]]."{{efn|Moved by the Pulitzer board to the [[Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting|Investigative Reporting]] category.}}
|-
|[[ProPublica]]
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2011 Pulitzer Prize|2011]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Amy|Ellis Nutt}}'''
|'''''[[The Star-Ledger]]'''''
|'''"for her [http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/the_wreck_of_the_lady_mary_cha.html deeply probing story] of the [[List of shipwrecks in 2009#24 March|mysterious sinking]] of a commercial fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean that drowned six men."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Tony|Bartelme}}
|''[[The Post and Courier]]''
|"for his engaging account of a South Carolina neurosurgeon's quest to teach brain surgery in Tanzania, possibly providing a new model for health care in developing countries."
|-
|{{sortname|Michael M.|Phillips}}
|''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
|"for his portfolio of deftly written stories that provide war-weary readers with fresh perspective on the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|conflict in Afghanistan]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2012 Pulitzer Prize|2012]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Eli|Sanders}}'''
|'''''[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]]'''''
|'''"for his [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-bravest-woman-in-seattle/Content?oid=8640991 haunting story] of a woman who survived a brutal attack that took the life of her partner, using the woman's brave courtroom testimony and the details of the crime to construct a moving narrative."'''
|-
|{{sortname|John|Branch|dab=journalist}}
|''[[The New York Times]]''
|"for his deeply reported story of [[Derek Boogaard]], a professional hockey player valued for his brawling, whose tragic story shed light on a popular sport's disturbing embrace of [[Fighting in ice hockey|potentially brain-damaging violence]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Corinne|Reilly}}
|''[[The Virginian-Pilot]]''
|"for her inspiring stories that bring the reader side-by-side with the medical professionals seeking to save the lives of [[United States military casualties in the War in Afghanistan|gravely injured American soldiers]] at a combat hospital in Afghanistan."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2013 Pulitzer Prize|2013]]'''
|'''{{sortname|John|Branch|dab=journalist}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for his [https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek evocative narrative] about skiers [[2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche|killed in an avalanche]] and the science that explains such disasters, a project enhanced by its deft integration of multimedia elements."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Kelley|Benham}}
|''[[Tampa Bay Times]]''
|"for her searing personal account of the survival of her [[Preterm birth|premature baby]], born barely viable at 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her exploration of the costs and ethics of extreme medical intervention."
|-
|{{sortname|Eli|Saslow}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for his moving portrait of a struggling swimming pool salesman that illustrates the daily emotional toll of the nation's economic downturn."
|-
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2014 Pulitzer Prize|2014]]'''
|colspan=3 |''No award''
|-
|{{sortname|Scott|Farwell}}
|''[[The Dallas Morning News]]''
|"for his story about a young woman's struggle to live a normal life after years of ghastly child abuse, an examination of human resilience in the face of depravity."
|-
|{{sortname|Christopher|Goffard}}
|''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|"for his account of an ex-police officer's [[Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt|nine-day killing spree]] in Southern California, notable for its pacing, character development and rich detail."
|-
|{{sortname|Mark|Johnson|dab=journalist}}
|''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]''
|"for his meticulously told tale about a group of first-year medical students in their gross anatomy class and the relationships they develop with one another and the nameless corpse on the table, an account enhanced by multimedia elements."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2015 Pulitzer Prize|2015]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Diana|Marcum}}'''
|'''''[[Los Angeles Times]]'''''
|'''"for her [http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-drought-timeline-20141210-html-htmlstory.html dispatches] from California's [[Central Valley (California)|Central Valley]] offering nuanced portraits of lives affected by the [[2011–2017 California drought|state's drought]], bringing an original and empathic perspective to the story."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Jennifer|Gonnerman}}
|''[[The New Yorker]]''
|"for a taut, spare, devastating re-creation of the three-year imprisonment of a [[Kalief Browder|young man]] at Rikers Island, much of it spent in solitary confinement, after he was arrested for stealing a backpack."
|-
|{{sortname|Sarah|Schweitzer}}
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for her masterful narrative of one scientist's mission to save a [[North Atlantic right whale|rare whale]], a beautiful story fortified by expansive reporting, a quiet lyricism and disciplined use of multimedia."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2016 Pulitzer Prize|2016]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Kathryn|Schulz}}'''
|'''''[[The New Yorker]]'''''
|'''"for an [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one elegant scientific narrative] of the rupturing of the [[Cascadia subduction zone|Cascadia fault line]], a masterwork of [[Environmental journalism|environmental reporting]] and writing."'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Feature Writing |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/211 |access-date=28 April 2016}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|N. R.|Kleinfield}}
|''[[The New York Times]]''
|"for the layered and riveting account of the last days of a Queens man, part detective story, part eulogy and part exploration of a city's bureaucracy of death."
|-
|{{sortname|Eli|Saslow}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for three humane and topical feature stories exploring lives affected by a natural disaster, gun violence and a frayed social safety net."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2017 Pulitzer Prize|2017]]'''
|'''{{sortname|C. J.|Chivers}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for showing, through an [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/magazine/afghanistan-soldier-ptsd-the-fighter.html artful accumulation of fact and detail], that a Marine's postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a stereotypical case of [[Post-traumatic stress disorder|PTSD]]."'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Feature Writing |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/211 |access-date=11 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Devlin|Barrett}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for 'The Last Diplomat,' a multilayered thriller that took readers inside the rarely seen intersection of diplomacy and national security, telling the story of [[Robin Raphel|one woman's]] professional ruin after years of service to her country."
|-
|{{sortname|Adam|Entous}}
|-
|{{sortname|Eli|Saslow}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for a nuanced and empathetic portrait of America created through human stories that chronicled the fissures, resentments, failures and disappointments that marked a divided and restive body politic."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2018 Pulitzer Prize|2018]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Rachel Kaadzi|Ghansah}}'''
|'''''[[GQ]]'''''
|'''"for an unforgettable portrait of murderer [[Dylann Roof]], using a unique and powerful mix of reportage, first-person reflection and analysis of the historical and cultural forces behind his [[Charleston church shooting|killing of nine people]] inside [[Emanuel AME Church]] in [[Charleston, South Carolina]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|John Woodrow|Cox}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for a gripping portfolio of stories rendered with keen observation and graceful yet simple writing that presents the horror of gun violence from an entirely new perspective: through the eyes of children."
|-
|{{sortname|Norimitsu|Onishi}}
|''[[The New York Times]]''
|"for a literary masterwork of observation that painted a portrait of the last days of [[Kodokushi|Japan's isolated elders]], who are housed in iconic apartment complexes where they prepare for deaths they hope will be noticed and tended to by their quiet neighbors."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2019 Pulitzer Prize|2019]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Hannah|Dreier}}'''
|'''[[ProPublica]]'''
|'''"for a series of powerful, intimate narratives that followed Salvadoran immigrants on New York's Long Island whose lives were shattered by a botched federal crackdown on the international criminal gang [[MS-13]]."'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |title=2019 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism: Feature Writing - Hannah Dreier of ProPublica |date=2019-04-15 |access-date=2019-04-16}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Jennifer|Berry Hawes}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[The Post and Courier]]''
|rowspan=2 |"for a deeply moving examination of racial injustice in South Carolina that led to the execution of a 14-year-old [[George Stinney|black boy]] wrongfully convicted of killing two white girls, and that ultimately exonerated him seven decades after his death."
|-
|{{sortname|Deanna|Pan}}
|-
|{{sortname|Elizabeth|Bruenig}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for eloquent reflections on the exile of a teen sexual assault victim in the author's [[Arlington, Texas|Texas hometown]], delving with moral authority into why the crime remained unpunished."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2020 Pulitzer Prize|2020]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Ben|Taub|dab=journalist}}'''
|'''''[[The New Yorker]]'''''
|'''"for a devastating account of a [[Mohamedou Ould Slahi|man who was kidnapped, tortured and deprived of his liberty]] for more than a decade at the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo Bay detention facility]], blending on-the-ground reporting and lyrical prose to offer a nuanced perspective on America's wider [[war on terror]]."'''<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret |title=Guantánamo's Darkest Secret |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=2020-05-05 |access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Ellen|Barry|dab=journalist}}
|''[[The New York Times]]''
|"for a beautifully written tale of an Indian 'prince' whose story concealed deeper truths rooted in the violence and trauma of the [[Partition of India]]."
|-
|{{sortname|Chloé|Cooper Jones}}
|''[[The Verge]]''
|"for her gripping portrait of [[Ramsey Orta]], who recorded the NYPD [[killing of Eric Garner]], using restrained yet powerful language and courageous reporting to show the police retribution endured by a forgotten figure in a story that horrified the nation."
|-
|{{sortname|Nestor|Ramos}}
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for a sweeping yet intimate story about how [[Climate change in Massachusetts|climate change is drastically reshaping Cape Cod]], locally illustrating the urgent global crisis."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2021 Pulitzer Prize|2021]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Nadja|Drost}}'''
|'''''[[The California Sunday Magazine]]'''''
|'''"for a brave and gripping account of global migration that documents a group's journey on foot through the [[Darién Gap]], one of the most dangerous migrant routes in the world."'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Nadja Drost freelance |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nadja-drost-freelance-contributor-california-sunday-magazine |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}}</ref>
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Mitchell S.|Jackson}}'''
|'''''[[Runner's World]]'''''
|'''"for a deeply affecting account of the [[Murder of Ahmaud Arbery|killing of Ahmaud Arbery]] that combined vivid writing, thorough reporting and personal experience to shed light on systemic racism in America."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Greg|Jaffe}}
|''[[The Washington Post]]''
|"for deeply reported stories that powerfully depict the suffering and dislocation endured by Americans who lost their jobs after the sudden [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism|collapse of South Florida's tourist economy in the pandemic]]."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2022 Pulitzer Prize|2022]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Jennifer|Senior}}'''
|'''''[[The Atlantic]]'''''
|'''"for an unflinching portrait of a family's reckoning with loss in the 20 years since [[September 11 attacks|9/11]], masterfully braiding the author's personal connection to the story with sensitive reporting that reveals the long reach of grief."'''<ref name="2022Pulitzer">{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |title="2022 Pulitzer Prizes & Finalists" |website=[[The Pulitzer Prizes|Pulitzer Prize]] |date=May 9, 2022 |accessdate=May 9, 2022}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Ken|Armstrong|dab=journalist}}
|[[ProPublica]]
|rowspan=2 |"for their enterprising and empathetic account of 11 Black children in Tennessee who were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist."
|-
|{{sortname|Meribah|Knight}}
|[[WPLN-FM|WPLN]]
|-
|{{sortname|Anand|Gopal}}
|''[[The New Yorker]]''
|"for his account, published shortly after the U.S. announced its [[2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan|departure from Afghanistan]], of [[Treatment of women by the Taliban|Afghan women]] who have been forgotten in the dominant narrative about the war."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2023 Pulitzer Prize|2023]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Eli|Saslow}}'''
|'''''[[The Washington Post]]'''''
|'''"for evocative individual narratives about people struggling with the [[COVID-19 pandemic|pandemic]], [[COVID-19 and homelessness|homelessness]], addiction and inequality that collectively form a sharply-observed portrait of contemporary America."'''<ref name="2023Pulitzer">{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/eli-saslow-washington-post |title=The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing |website=[[The Pulitzer Prizes|Pulitzer Prize]] |accessdate=May 15, 2023}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Elizabeth|Bruenig}}
|''[[The Atlantic]]''
|"for exposing the tortuous last hours of inmates awaiting execution on [[Capital punishment in Alabama|Alabama's death row]] and the efforts by the state to conceal the suffering, which led to a temporary moratorium on executions."
|-
|{{sortname|Janelle|Nanos}}
|''[[The Boston Globe]]''
|"for her decade-long investigation of a woman's quest to confirm her childhood sexual abuse that finally uncovered evidence that seemed to verify the horrors."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 |'''[[2024 Pulitzer Prize|2024]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Katie|Engelhart}}'''
|'''''[[The New York Times]]'''''
|'''"for her fair-minded portrait of a family's legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch's progressive [[dementia]] that sensitively probes the mystery of a person's essential self."'''<ref>{{cite web |date=May 6, 2024 |title=Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/katie-engelhart-contributing-writer-new-york-times |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=The Pulitzer Prize}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2 |{{sortname|Keri|Blakinger}}
|[[The Marshall Project]]
|rowspan=2 |"for her insightful, humane portrait, reported with great difficulty, of men on [[Capital punishment in Texas|death row]] in Texas who play clandestine games of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeons and Dragons]]'', countering their extreme isolation with elaborate fantasy."
|-
|''[[The New York Times Magazine]]''
|-
|{{sortname|Jennifer|Senior}}
|''[[The Atlantic]]''
|"for her exquisitely rendered account of her disabled aunt, who was [[Involuntary commitment|institutionalized]] as a small child, and the lasting effects on her family, told in the context of present-day care and intervention that make different outcomes possible."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 |'''[[2025 Pulitzer Prize|2025]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Mark|Warren|dab=journalist}}'''
|'''''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'''''
|'''"for a sensitive portrait of a [[Bubba Copeland|Baptist pastor and small town mayor]] who died by suicide after his secret digital life was exposed by a [[1819 News|right-wing news site]]."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Anand|Gopal}}
|''[[The New Yorker]]''
|"for a deeply reported narrative of a woman's life before and after she is imprisoned at an isolated [[Al-Hawl refugee camp|detention camp]] in Eastern Syria, illustrating how love and family intersect with larger geopolitical concerns."
|-
|{{sortname|Joe|Sexton|dab=journalist}}
|[[The Marshall Project]]
|"for his exclusive inside account of a legal team's efforts to spare the [[Nikolas Cruz|Parkland high school shooter]] from the death penalty, a saga of moral complexity, constitutional law and shattering trauma for those involved."
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Feature-Writing "Feature Writing"]. The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2013-12-26.</ref>
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[[Category:Pulitzer Prizes by category|Feature Writing]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1979]]
[[Category:Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing winners| ]]