ThePulitzer Prizes for 2000 were announced on April 10, 2000.^[1]

• Public Service:
  • The Washington Post, notably for the work ofKatherine Boo that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city's group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms.
• Breaking News Reporting:
  • Staff ofThe Denver Post, for its clear and balanced coverage of thestudent massacre at Columbine High School.
• Investigative Reporting:
  • Sang-Hun Choe,Charles J. Hanley andMartha Mendoza of theAssociated Press, for revealing, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of howAmerican soldiers early in theKorean War killed hundreds ofKorean civilians in a massacre at theNo Gun Ri Bridge.
• Explanatory Reporting:
  • Eric Newhouse of theGreat Falls Tribune, for his vivid examination ofalcohol abuse and the problems it creates in the community.
• Beat Reporting:
  • George Dohrmann of theSt. Paul Pioneer Press, for his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealedacademic fraud in the men's basketball program at theUniversity of Minnesota.
• National Reporting:
  • Staff ofThe Wall Street Journal, for its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in thepost–Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.
• International Reporting:
  • Mark Schoofs ofThe Village Voice, for his provocative and enlightening series on theAIDS crisis in Africa.
• Feature Writing:
  • J.R. Moehringer of theLos Angeles Times, for his portrait ofGee's Bend, an isolated river community inAlabama where many descendants ofslaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.
• Commentary:
  • Paul A. Gigot ofThe Wall Street Journal, for his informative and insightful columns on politics and government.
• Criticism:
  • Henry Allen ofThe Washington Post, for his fresh and authoritative writing onphotography.
• Editorial Writing:
  • John C. Bersia of theOrlando Sentinel, for his passionate editorial campaign attackingpredatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Joel Pett of theLexington Herald-Leader
• Breaking News Photography:
  • Photo Staff of theDenver Rocky Mountain News, for its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.
• Feature Photography:
  • Carol Guzy,Michael Williamson andLucian Perkins ofThe Washington Post, for their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of theKosovo refugees.

• Fiction:
  • Interpreter of Maladies byJhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
• History:
  • Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 byDavid M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) byStacy Schiff (Random House)
• Poetry:
  • Repair byC.K. Williams (Farrar)
• General Nonfiction
  • Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II byJohn W. Dower (W.W. Norton & Company)

• Drama:
  • Dinner With Friends byDonald Margulies (TCG)
• Music:
  • Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version byLewis Spratlan (G. Schirmer/AMP); premiered on January 28, 2000, by Dinosaur Annex inAmherst, Massachusetts. Libretto by James Maraniss.

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