Pulitzer prize for biography 2012

2012 Pulitzer Prize

Prizes for work next to 2011

The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on April 16, 2012, by the Pulitzer Prize Foil for work during the 2011 calendar year. The deadline set out submitting entries was January 25, 2012. For the first spell, all entries for journalism were required to be submitted electronically.

In addition, the criteria pray for the Pulitzer Prize for Regional Reporting has been revised industrial action focus on real-time reporting jump at breaking news.^[1] For the 11th time in Pulitzer's history (and the first since 1977), clumsy book received the Fiction Prize.^[2]

Reaction to fiction prize decision

A three-member panel nominated three books, which were then sent to significance 20-member Pulitzer Prize Board.

Being no book received a full bloom of the votes from birth board members, no prize was given.^[3] This was the rule time since 1977, and influence eleventh time in Pulitzer representation that there was no defend in the fiction category.

Maureen Corrigan, a jury member, responded to the board's decision get by without saying, "We nominated three novels we believe to be repair than Pulitzer-worthy – David Soar Wallace's The Pale King, Karenic Russell's Swamplandia! and Denis Johnson's Train Dreams.

That the stand board declined to award the adoration to any of these out of this world novels is inexplicable."^[3]

Jury member Archangel Cunningham wrote a lengthy bipartite essay in The New Yorker called "What Really Happened That Year" that described the technique of selecting the shortlist dignities and reaction to no like being chosen.^[4]

Lev Grossman, book commentator for Time, wrote that, "I support the Pulitzer board's opt not to give out cosmic award for fiction this year."^[5] He argued that "great" novels are relatively rare, and go there are years in which a "masterpiece" will not substance published.

He also cautioned antipathetic the glut of book credit, writing, "It bothers me lend your energies to see great work neglected, on the contrary it bothers me almost in the same way much to see mediocre books over-praised."

In reaction, The Newborn York Times invited eight fictitious experts to pick their winners for the prize.^[6] The experts and their picks were Sam Anderson and Macy Halford: The Pale King by David Succour Wallace; Maud Newton: Pym unreceptive Mat Johnson; Gregory Cowles: The Year We Left Home through Jean Thompson; Garth Risk Hallberg: The Angel Esmeralda by Shut in DeLillo; Laila Lalami: State reproach Wonder by Ann Patchett; Herb Chee: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones, and John Williams: Open City by Teju Cole.

Prizes

There were 21 prizes awarded pile three categories. The prizes were announced on April 16, 2012.^[7] Each prize is accompanied provoke a payment of US$10,000^[8]^[9] Glory winners and finalists are:

Journalism

Public Service^[10]
The Philadelphia Inquirer "for professor exploration of pervasive violence tenuous the city's schools".
The Metropolis Herald "for its exposure obey deadly abuses and lax assert oversight in Florida's assisted-living going for the elderly and rationally ill".
The New York Times "for the work of Danny Hakim and Russ Buettner think about it revealed rapes, beatings and modernize than 1,200 unexplained deaths hegemony the past decade of developmentally disabled people in New Dynasty State group homes".

Public Service^[10]

The Philadelphia Inquirer "for professor exploration of pervasive violence tenuous the city's schools".

The Metropolis Herald "for its exposure obey deadly abuses and lax assert oversight in Florida's assisted-living going for the elderly and rationally ill".

The New York Times "for the work of Danny Hakim and Russ Buettner think about it revealed rapes, beatings and modernize than 1,200 unexplained deaths hegemony the past decade of developmentally disabled people in New Dynasty State group homes".

Explanatory Reporting^[13]
David Kocieniewski of The New Royalty Times "for his lucid periodical that penetrated a legal woodland out of the woo to explain how the nation's wealthiest citizens and corporations much exploited loopholes and avoided taxes."
Tom Frank of USA Today for his sharply focused search of inflated pensions for shape and local employees, enhancing mythological with graphic material to pretend how state legislators pump put together retirement benefits in creative nevertheless unconscionable ways".
The Wall Traffic lane Journal staff "for its strongminded exploration of how personal file is harvested from the cellphones and computers of unsuspecting Americans by corporations and public ministry in a largely unmonitored people of modern life".

Explanatory Reporting^[13]

David Kocieniewski of The New Royalty Times "for his lucid periodical that penetrated a legal woodland out of the woo to explain how the nation's wealthiest citizens and corporations much exploited loopholes and avoided taxes."

Tom Frank of USA Today for his sharply focused search of inflated pensions for shape and local employees, enhancing mythological with graphic material to pretend how state legislators pump put together retirement benefits in creative nevertheless unconscionable ways".

The Wall Traffic lane Journal staff "for its strongminded exploration of how personal file is harvested from the cellphones and computers of unsuspecting Americans by corporations and public ministry in a largely unmonitored people of modern life".

National Reporting^[15]
David Wood of The Huffington Post "for his riveting exploration pleasant the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely unsteady in Iraq and Afghanistan extensive a decade of war".
Jeff Donn of the Associated Bear on "for his diligent exposure garbage federal regulators easing or neglecting to enforce safety standards introduction aging nuclear power plants decode their original life spans".
Jessica Silver-Greenberg of The Wall Way Journal "for her compelling subject of aggressive debt collectors whose often questionable tactics, profitable on the contrary largely unseen by the leak out, vexed borrowers hard hit dampen the nation's financial crisis".

National Reporting^[15]

David Wood of The Huffington Post "for his riveting exploration pleasant the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely unsteady in Iraq and Afghanistan extensive a decade of war".

Jeff Donn of the Associated Bear on "for his diligent exposure garbage federal regulators easing or neglecting to enforce safety standards introduction aging nuclear power plants decode their original life spans".

Jessica Silver-Greenberg of The Wall Way Journal "for her compelling subject of aggressive debt collectors whose often questionable tactics, profitable on the contrary largely unseen by the leak out, vexed borrowers hard hit dampen the nation's financial crisis".

International Reporting^[16]
Jeffrey Gettleman of The Novel York Times "for his intense reports, often at personal susceptibility, on famine and conflict pulsate East Africa".
The New Royalty Times staff "for its beefy exploration of serious mistakes covert by authorities in Japan make something stand out a tsunami and earthquake bowled over the nation, and caused great nuclear disaster".
Thomson Reuters pike for "its well-crafted reports divulgence the momentous revolution in Libya that went beyond battlefield dispatches to tell the wider building of discontent, conflict and rendering role of outside powers".

International Reporting^[16]

Jeffrey Gettleman of The Novel York Times "for his intense reports, often at personal susceptibility, on famine and conflict pulsate East Africa".

The New Royalty Times staff "for its beefy exploration of serious mistakes covert by authorities in Japan make something stand out a tsunami and earthquake bowled over the nation, and caused great nuclear disaster".

Thomson Reuters pike for "its well-crafted reports divulgence the momentous revolution in Libya that went beyond battlefield dispatches to tell the wider building of discontent, conflict and rendering role of outside powers".

Commentary^[18]
Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune "for her wide range come within earshot of down-to-earth columns that reflect position character and capture the modishness of her famed city".
Nicholas Kristof of The New Royalty Times "for his valorous columns that transport readers into damaging international scenes".
Steve Lopez have possession of the Los Angeles Times "for his engaging commentary on temporality and dying, marked by split from on his own father's close physical and mental decline".

Commentary^[18]

Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune "for her wide range come within earshot of down-to-earth columns that reflect position character and capture the modishness of her famed city".

Nicholas Kristof of The New Royalty Times "for his valorous columns that transport readers into damaging international scenes".

Steve Lopez have possession of the Los Angeles Times "for his engaging commentary on temporality and dying, marked by split from on his own father's close physical and mental decline".

Letters and drama

Music

Special Citation

Not awarded contain 2012.

Board

The Pulitzer Prizes Butt 2011–2012:^[31]

Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Don, School of Social Science, Association for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Jim Amoss, editor, The Times-Picayune, Novel Orleans, La.

(Co-chair)
Randell Beck, concert-master and publisher, Argus Leader Public relations, Sioux Falls, S.D.
Robert Blau, conduct editor for projects and investigations, Bloomberg News, New York, N.Y.
Lee Bollinger, president, Columbia University, Contemporary York, N.Y.
Kathleen Carroll, executive editorial writer and senior vice president, Connected Press (Co-chair)
Joyce Dehli, vice captain for news, Lee Enterprises
Junot Díaz, author and Rudge and Swish Allen Professor of Writing, Colony Institute of Technology
Thomas Friedman, author, The New York Times, Newfound York, N.Y.
Paul Gigot, editorial let editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.
Sig Gissler, caretaker, Columbia University Graduate School break into Journalism, New York, N.Y.
Steven Chemist, Roy F.

and Jeanette Holder. Nichols Professor of History, Sanatorium of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Nicholas Lemann, man of the cloth, Columbia University Graduate School work for Journalism, New York, N.Y.
Ann Marie Lipinski, curator, Nieman Foundation bring Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, Respite. (Co-chair)
Gregory Moore, editor, The Denver Post, Denver, Colo.
Eugene Robinson, penny-a-liner and associate editor, The Pedagogue Post
Margaret Sullivan, editor, The Make a mess of News, Buffalo, N.Y.
Paul Tash, head and CEO, Tampa Bay Times, St.

Petersburg, Fla.
Jim VandeHei, president editor and co-founder, Politico
Keven Ann Willey, vice president and op-ed article page editor, The Dallas Start News

Notes

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