Apr 18, 2011
Every year since 1917 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in journalism, letters, drama, and music. Winners receive a $10,000 cash award and a certificate.
| Public Service | |
| Los Angeles Times (Exposure of corruption in a small city where officials tapped the treasury) | |
| Investigative Reporting | |
| Paige St John (Examination of weaknesses in the property insurance system in Florida) | |
| Explanatory Reporting | |
| Mark Johnson (Examination of genetic technology to save a four year old boy) | |
| Kathleen Gallagher; Gary Porter; Lou Saldivar; Alison Sherwood | |
| Local Reporting | |
| Frank Main (Documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods) | |
| Mark Konkol; John J Kim | |
| National Reporting | |
| Jesse Eisinger (Questionable practices on Wall Street) | |
| and Jake Bernstein | |
| International Reporting | |
| Clifford J Levy (Faltering justice system in Russia) | |
| and Ellen Barry | |
| Feature Writing | |
| Amy Ellis Nutt (Mysterious sinking of a commercial fishing boat) | |
| Commentary | |
| David Leonhardt (America's complicated economic questions) | |
| Criticism | |
| Sebastian Smee (Writing about art) | |
| Editorial Writing | |
| Joseph Rago (Editorials challenging health care reform) | |
| Editorial Cartooning | |
| Mike Keefe | |
| Breaking News Photography | |
| Carol Guzy (Portrait of desperation after a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti) | |
| Nikki Kahn; Ricky Carioti | |
| Feature Photography | |
| Barbara Davidson (Victims trapped in crossfire of gang violence) | |
| Biography | |
| Ron Chernow (Washington: A Life) | |
| Fiction | |
| Jennifer Egan (A Visit From The Goon Squad) | |
| Drama | |
| Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park) | |
| History | |
| Eric Foner (Examination of Lincoln's changing views of slavery) | |
| Poetry | |
| Kay Ryan (The Best Of It: New And Selected Poems) | |
| General Non-Fiction | |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee (The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer) | |
| Music | |
| Zhou Long (Madame White Snake) | |