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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

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The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism. It has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality.

Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.[1]

Winners and citations

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In its first 35 years to 2013, the Feature Writing Pulitzer was awarded 34 times; none was given in 2004 and 2014, and it was never split. Gene Weingarten alone won it twice, in 2008 and 2010.[1]

  • 2022: Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic, "For an unflinching portrait of a family's reckoning with loss in the 20 years since 9/11, masterfully braiding the author's personal connection to the story with sensitive reporting that reveals the long reach of grief."[7]
  • 2023: Eli Saslow of The Washington Post, "For evocative individual narratives about people struggling with the pandemic, homelessness, addiction and inequality that collectively form a sharply-observed portrait of contemporary America."[8]
  • 2024: Katie Englehart of The New York Times, "For her fair-minded portrait of a family’s legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch’s progressive dementia that sensitively probes the mystery of a person’s essential self."[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Feature Writing". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2013-12-26.
  2. ^ "Feature Writing". Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Feature Writing". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  4. ^ "2019 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism: Feature Writing - Hannah Dreier of ProPublica". 2019-04-15. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  5. ^ "Guantánamo's Darkest Secret". The New Yorker. 2020-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  6. ^ "Nadja Drost freelance". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  7. ^ ""2022 Pulitzer Prizes & Finalists"". Pulitzer Prize. May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
  8. ^ "The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing". Pulitzer Prize. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  9. ^ "Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times". The Pulitzer Prize. May 6, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-07.