Пулитцеровская премия 1979 года — 63-я ежегодная премия в области литературы , журналистики , музыки и театра . В этот год Консультативный совет по Пулитцеровским премиям был переименован в Совет по Пулитцеровским премиям .

Журналистика

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• Public Service:

The Point Reyes Light, калифорнийский еженедельник. О расследовании Synanon, (написана Richard Ofshe) .

• Local General or Spot News Reporting:

The San Diego Evening Tribune, о столкновении над Сан-Диего .

• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:

Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin of the Pottsville Republican (Pennsylvania). For stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.

• National Reporting:

James Risser of the Des Moines Register, for a series on farming damage to the environment.

• International Reporting:

Richard Ben Cramer of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for reports from the Middle East.

• Feature Writing:

Jon D. Franklin, science writer of The Baltimore Evening Sun, for an account of brain surgery.

• Commentary:

Russell Baker of The New York Times.

• Criticism:

Paul Gapp, architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune.

• Editorial Writing:

Edwin M. Yoder Jr. of the Washington Star.

• Editorial Cartooning:

Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock) of The Washington Post, for the body of his work.

• Spot News Photography:

Thomas J. Kelly III of the Pottstown Mercury (Pennsylvania), for a series called Tragedy on Sanatoga Road.

• Feature Photography:

Staff Photographers of the Boston Herald American, for photographic coverage of the blizzard of 1978.

Литература и музыка

• Fiction:

The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)

• За лучшую драму :

«Buried Child», Сэм Шепард (Urizen)

• History:

The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford Univ. Press)

• Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography:

Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker (Macmillan)

• Poetry:

Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren (Random)

• General Non-Fiction:

On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ. Press)

• Music:

Aftertones of Infinity by Joseph Schwantner (C. F. Peters) first performed by the American Composers Orchestra on January 29, 1979 in Alice Tully Hall New York City.

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