title: 1998 Pulitzer Prize
text: # 1998 Pulitzer Prize
  
  A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998:
  
  ## Journalism
  
  | Public Service | Grand Forks Herald (N.D.) | " ... for its sustained and informative coverage, vividly illustrated with photographs, that helped hold its community together in the wake of flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself..." |
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  | Beat Reporting | Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times | " ... for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court..." |
  | Spot News Photography | Martha Rial of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | " ... for her life-affirming portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi." |
  | Breaking News Reporting | Staff of the Los Angeles Times | " ... for its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood, Los Angeles." |
  | Commentary | Mike McAlary of the New York Daily News | " ... for reporting on the brutalization of a Haitian immigrant by police officers at a Brooklyn stationhouse." |
  | Criticism | Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times | " ... for her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature." |
  | Editorial Cartooning | Stephen P. Breen of Asbury Park Press (Neptune City, New Jersey) |
  | Editorial Writing | Bernard L. Stein of The Riverdale Press, a New York City weekly journal | " ... for his gracefully-written editorials on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents." |
  | Explanatory Reporting | Paul Salopek of the Chicago Tribune | " ... for his enlightening profile of the Human Genome Diversity Project, which seeks to chart the genetic relationship among all people." |
  | Feature Photography | Clarence Williams of the Los Angeles Times | " ... for his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs." |
  | Feature Writing | Thomas French of the St. Petersburg Times | " ... 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 and eventual capture of Oba Chandler." |
  | International Reporting | Staff of The New York Times | " ... for its revealing series that profiled the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. |
  | Investigative Reporting | Gary Cohn and Will Englund of The Baltimore Sun | " ... for their compelling series on the international shipbreaking industry, that revealed the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled." |
  | National Reporting | Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News | " ... for their reporting that disclosed dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system and prompted reforms." |
  
  ## Letters
  
  * Biography or Autobiography
     * Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf)
  * Fiction
     * American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
  * History
     * Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward Larson (BasicBooks)
  * General Non-Fiction
     * Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
  * Poetry
     * Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar)
  * Drama
     * How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel (TCG)
  * Music
     * String Quartet No. 2 (musica instrumentalis) by Aaron Jay Kernis (Associated Music Publishers)
  
  Premiered on January 19, 1990, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
  
  ## Special Awards and Citations
  
  * Special Citation
     * George Gershwin - Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
  