| 1979 |
Jon D. Franklin |
Baltimore Evening Sun, for an account of brain surgery
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| 1980 |
Madeleine Blais |
Miami Herald, for "Zepp's Last Stand."
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| 1981 |
Teresa Carpenter |
Village Voice
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| 1982 |
Saul Pett |
Associated Press, for an article profiling the federal bureaucracy
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| 1983 |
Nan Robertson |
New York Times, for her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with toxic shock syndrome
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| 1984 |
Peter Mark Rinearson |
Seattle Times, for "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner
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| 1985 |
Alice Steinbach |
Baltimore Sun, for her account of a blind boy's world, "A Boy of Unusual Vision."
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| 1986 |
John Camp |
St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, for his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression
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| 1987 |
Steve Twomey |
Philadelphia Inquirer, for his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier
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| 1988 |
Jacqui Banaszynski |
St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, for her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community
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| 1989 |
David Zucchino |
Philadelphia Inquirer, for his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa."
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| 1990 |
Dave Curtin |
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, for a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home
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| 1991 |
Sheryl James |
St. Petersburg Times (Florida), for a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others
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| 1992 |
Howell Raines |
New York Times, for "Grady's Gift," an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship
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| 1993 |
George Lardner, Jr. |
Washington Post, for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system
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| 1994 |
Isabel Wilkerson |
New York Times, for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993
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| 1995 |
Ron Suskind |
Wall Street Journal, for his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C, and their determination to survive and prosper
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| 1996 |
Rick Bragg |
New York Times, for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America
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| 1997 |
Lisa Pollak |
Baltimore Sun, for her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease
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| 1998 |
Thomas French |
St. Petersburg Times (Florida), for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders
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| 1999 |
Angelo B. Henderson |
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
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| 2000 |
J. R. Moehringer |
Los Angeles Times, for his portrait of 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
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| 2001 |
Tom Hallman, Jr. |
The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 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
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| 2002 |
Barry Siegel |
Los Angeles Times, for his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case
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| 2003 |
Sonia Nazario |
Los Angeles Times, for "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States
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| 2004 |
(no award)
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