The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to the best in journalism and the arts for pieces of exceptional quality. In 1984, the recipients were:

Contents

• Journalism
• Letters, Drama, and Music
• Special Citations and Awards
• References
• External links

Journalism

• Public Service:
  • Los Angeles Times , for an in-depth examination of southern California's growing Latino community by a team of editors and reporters. ^[1]
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
  • Newsday team of reporters, for their enterprising and comprehensive coverage of the Baby Jane Doe case and its far-reaching social and political implications. ^[2]
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
  • Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitzgerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel of The Boston Globe , for their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city's most honored institutions including The Globe itself.
• National Reporting:
  • John Noble Wilford of The New York Times , for reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import.
• International Reporting:
  • Karen Elliott House of The Wall Street Journal , for her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan.
• Feature Writing:
  • Peter Mark Rinearson of The Seattle Times , for "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
• Commentary:
  • Vermont Royster of The Wall Street Journal
• Criticism:
  • Paul Goldberger of The New York Times , for architectural criticism.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Albert Scardino of Georgia Gazette (Savannah), for his series of editorials on various local and state matters.
• Spot News Photography
  • Stan Grossfeld of The Boston Globe , for his series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon.
• Feature Photography
  • Anthony Suau of The Denver Post , for a series of photographs which depict the tragic effects of starvation in Ethiopia and for a single photograph of a woman at her husband's gravesite on Memorial Day.

Letters, Drama, and Music

• Fiction:
  • Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)
• Drama:
  • Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet (Grove) ^[3]
• History:
  • No award
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 by Louis R. Harlan (Oxford University Press)
• Poetry:
  • American Primitive by Mary Oliver (Atlantic-Little)
• General Nonfiction:
  • The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (Basic Books)
• Music:
  • "Canti del Sole" for Tenor and Orchestra by Bernard Rands (Universal Edition)

Special Citations and Awards

• Letters:
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Special citation to Theodor Seuss Geisel (pen name "Dr. Seuss"), for his special contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents.

References

External links

• Official website