1988 Pulitzer Prizes

The Charlotte Observer

For revealing misuse of funds by the PTL television ministry through persistent coverage conducted in the face of a massive campaign by PTL to discredit the newspaper.

Staff of Lawrence (MA) Eagle-Tribune

For an investigation that revealed serious flaws in the Massachusetts prison furlough system and led to significant statewide reforms.

Staff of The Alabama Journal, Montgomery, AL

For its compelling investigation of the state's unusually high infant-mortality rate, which prompted legislation to combat the problem.

Dean Baquet, William Gaines and Ann Marie Lipinski of Chicago Tribune

For their detailed reporting on the self-interest and waste that plague Chicago's City Council.

Daniel Hertzberg and James B. Stewart of The Wall Street Journal

For their stories about an investment banker charged with insider trading and the critical day that followed the October 19, 1987, stock market crash.

Walt Bogdanich of The Wall Street Journal

For his chilling series of reports on faulty testing by American medical laboratories.

Tim Weiner of The Philadelphia Inquirer

For his series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget used by the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup.

Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times

For balanced and informed coverage of Israel.

Jacqui Banaszynski of St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch

For her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community.

Dave Barry of The Miami Herald

For his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns.

Tom Shales of The Washington Post

For his television criticism.

Jane Healy of Orlando Sentinel

For her series of editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange County.

Doug Marlette of The Atlanta Constitution and Charlotte Observer

Scott Shaw of Odessa (TX) American

For his photograph of the child Jessica McClure being rescued from the well into which she had fallen.

Michel du Cille of The Miami Herald

For photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack.

Beloved, by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry

The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876, by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf)

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, by David Herbert Donald (Little)

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)

The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster)

12 New Etudes for Piano, by William Bolcom

First complete performance by Marc-André Hamelin, pianist, on March 30, 1987 at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.