Pulizer Prize

COMMENTARY Paul A. Gigot of Wall Street

Journal

For his informative and insightful columns on politics and government.

CRITICISM Henry Allen of Washington Post

For his fresh and authoritative writing on photography.

EDITORIAL WRITING John C. Bersia of Orlando Sentinel

For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.

EDITORIAL CARTOONING

Joel Pett of Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

Photo Staff of Denver Rocky Mountain News

For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School

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FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson and Lucian Perkins of Washington Post

For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees.

FICTION

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

DRAMA

Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies

HISTORY

Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by

David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff (Random House)