Women Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism
See Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism for the full list of winners.
Editorial
1956 |
Lauren K. Soth (Des Moines Register and Tribune) |
1960 |
Lenoir Chambers (Virginian–Pilot) |
1964 |
Hazel Brannon Smith (Lexington [Miss.] Advertiser) |
1978 |
Meg Greenfield (Washington Post) |
1988 |
Jane E. Healy (Orlando Sentinel) |
1989 |
Lois Wille (Chicago Tribune) |
1992 |
Maria Henson (Lexington [Ky.] Herald–Leader) |
Correspondence
1937 |
Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times) |
News Photography
1954 |
Mrs. Walter M. Schau |
1986 |
Spot news: Michel duCille and Carol Guzy (Miami Herald); features: Tom Gralish (Philadelphia Inquirer) |
1987 |
Spot news: Kim Komenich (San Francisco Examiner); features: David Peterson (Des Moines Register) |
1995 |
Spot news: Carol Guzy (Washington Post); features: Associated Press Staff |
1996 |
Spot news: Charles Porter IV, freelance photographer for Associated Press; features: Stephanie Walsh, freelance photographer for Newhouse News Service |
1997 |
Spot news: Annie Wells (The Press Democrat [Santa Rosa, Calif.]); features: Alexander Zemlianichenko (Associated Press) |
1998 |
Spot news: Martha Rial (The Pittsburgh Post–Gazette); features: Clarence Williams (The Los Angeles Times) |
National Reporting
1971 |
Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers (United Press International) |
1980 |
Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford (St. Petersburg Times) |
1990 |
Ross Anderson, Bill Dietrich, Mary Ann Gwinn, and Eric Nalder (Seattle Times) |
1991 |
Marjie Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharpe (Gannett News Service) |
1994 |
Eileen Welsome (Albuquerque [N.M.] Tribune) |
1996 |
Alix M. Freedman (Wall Street Journal) |
International Reporting
1951 |
Keyes Beech and Fred Sparks (Chicago Daily News); Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins (New York Herald Tribune); Relman Morin and Don Whitehead (Associated Press) |
1981 |
Shirley Christian (Miami Herald) |
1984 |
Karen E. House (Wall Street Journal) |
1986 |
Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey, and Katherine Ellison (San Jose Mercury News) |
1990 |
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (New York Times) |
Reporting
General Local Reporting
1977 |
Margo Huston (Milwaukee Journal) |
General News Reporting
1986 |
Edna Buchanan (Miami Herald) |
Special Local Reporting
1972 |
Timothy Leland, Gerard N. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian, and Ann DeSantis (Boston Globe) |
1980 |
Nils J. Bruzelius, Alexander B. Hawes, Jr., Stephen A. Kurkjian, Robert M. Porterfield, and Joan Vennochi (Boston Globe) |
1983 |
Loretta Tofani (Washington Post) |
1984 |
Kenneth Cooper, Joan FitzGerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg, and David Wessel (Boston Globe) |
Investigative Reporting
1985 |
Lucy Morgan, Jack Reed (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times), and William K. Marimow (Philadelphia Inquirer) |
1988 |
Dean Baquet, William C. Gaines, and Ann Marie Lipinski (Chicago Tribune) |
1991 |
Joseph T. Hallinan and Susan M. Headden (Indianapolis Star) |
1992 |
Lorraine Adams and Dan Malone (Dallas Morning News) |
1993 |
Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry (Orlando [Fla.] Sentinel) |
1995 |
Stephanie Saul and Brian Donovan (Newsday) |
1997 |
Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson, and Alex Tizon (Seattle Times) |
Feature Writing
1980 |
Madeleine Blais (Miami Herald) |
1981 |
Teresa Carpenter (Village Voice, New York) |
1983 |
Nan Robertson (New York Times) |
1985 |
Alice Steinbach (Baltimore Sun) |
1988 |
Jacqui Banaszynski (St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch) |
1991 |
Sheryl James (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times) |
1994 |
Isabel Wilkerson (New York Times) |
1997 |
Lisa Pollak (Baltimore Sun) |
Commentary
1975 |
Mary McGrory (Washington Star) |
1980 |
Ellen H. Goodman (Boston Globe) |
1992 |
Anna Quindlen (New York Times) |
1993 |
Liz Balmaseda (Miami Herald) |
1997 |
Eileen McNamara (Boston Globe) |
Criticism
1970 |
Ada Louise Huxtable (New York Times) |
1974 |
Emily Genauer (Newsday Syndicate) |
1983 |
Manuela Hoelterhoff (Wall Street Journal) |
1995 |
Margo Jefferson (New York Times) |
1998 |
Michiko Kakutani (New York Times) |
Explanatory Journalism
1989 |
David Hanners, William Snyder, and Karen Blessen (Dallas Morning News) |
1991 |
Susan C. Faludi (Wall Street Journal) |
1996 |
Laurie Garrett (Newsday [Long Island, N.Y.]) |
1997 |
Michael Vitez, Ron Cortes, and April Saul (Philadelphia Inquirer) |
Specialized Reporting
1985 |
Randall Savage and Jackie Crosby (Macon [Ga.] Telegraph and News) |
1986 |
Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty (Pittsburgh Press) |
1990 |
Tamar Stieber (Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal) |
Beat Reporting
1991 |
Natalie Angier (New York Times) |
1992 |
Deborah Blum (Sacramento Bee) |
1998 |
Linda Greenhouse (New York Times) |
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