Journalism awards
* Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, Beat reporting: ** Bob Keeler of ''Newsday'', Long Island, Long Island, New York. For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners. * Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, Spot News Reporting: **Robert D. McFadden of ''The New York Times''. For his highly skilled writing and reporting on deadline during the year. * Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, Spot News Photography: ** Charles Porter IV, a free-lancer. For his haunting photographs, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing and distributed by the Associated Press, showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a local fireman. * Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Commentary: ** E.R. Shipp of the New York ''Daily News (New York), Daily News''. For her penetrating columns on race, social welfare, welfare and other social issues. * Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Criticism: ** Robert Campbell (journalist), Robert Campbell of ''The Boston Globe''. For his knowledgeable writing on architecture. * Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Editorial Cartooning: ** Jim Morin of the ''Miami Herald''. * Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, Editorial Writing: **Robert B. Semple, Jr. of ''The New York Times''. For his editorials on environmental issues. * Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, Explanatory Reporting: **Laurie Garrett of ''Newsday'', Long Island, New York. For her courageous reporting from Zaire on the Ebola virus outbreak there. (The winner was entered and nominated in the International Reporting category and was moved by the Pulitzer Prize Board to Explanatory Journalism.) * Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, Feature Photography: **Stephanie Welsh, a free-lancer. For her shocking sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a female genital cutting rite in Kenya. * Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, Feature Writing: **Rick Bragg of ''The New York Times''. For his elegantly written stories about contemporary America. * Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, International Reporting: **David Rohde of ''The Christian Science Monitor''. For his persistent on-site reporting of Srebrenica massacre, the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. * Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Investigative Reporting: **Staff of the ''Orange County Register'', Santa Ana, California. For reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms. * Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, National Reporting: **Alix M. Freedman of ''The Wall Street Journal''. For her coverage of the tobacco industry, including a report that exposed how ammonia additives heighten nicotine potency. * Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Public Service: **''The News & Observer'', Raleigh, North Carolina. For the work of Melanie Sill, Pat Stith and Joby Warrick on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's growing Hog (swine), hog industry.Letters, Drama and Music Awards
* Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Biography or Autobiography: ** ''God: A Biography'' by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf) * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Fiction: ** ''Independence Day (Ford novel), Independence Day'' by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) * Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, General Non-Fiction: ** ''The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism'' by Tina Rosenberg (Random House) * Pulitzer Prize for History, History: **''William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic'' by Alan Taylor (historian), Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poetry: ** ''The Dream of the Unified Field'' by Jorie Graham (Ecco Press, The Ecco Press) * Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Drama: ** ''Rent (musical), Rent'' by Jonathan Larson (Rob Weisbach Books/William Morrow and Company, William Morrow) * Pulitzer Prize for Music, Music: **''Lilacs (Walker), Lilacs'' by George Walker (composer), George Walker (MMB Music)Special Citations
* Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards ** Herb Caen, local columnist of the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', for his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city.References
External links
* {{Pulitzer Prize 1996 literary awards, Pulitzer Prize 1996 awards in the United States, Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prizes by year