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The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Writing

Finalist: The St. Petersburg Times , by Anne Hull

For her quietly powerful stories of Mexican women who come to work in North Carolina crab shacks, in pursuit of a better life.

Winners

Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 2000:

J.R. Moehringer

For his portrait of Gee’s Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it. Feature Writing

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2000:

David Finkel

For his moving account of a woman forced to choose between staying with her family in a Macedonian refugee camp, or leaving to marry a man in France.

The Jury

Steve Coll(chair )

managing editor

Jim Amoss

editor

Ken Bunting

managing editor

James B. Stewart*

editor-at-large

William J. Ward

managing editor

Richard K. Weil Jr.

executive editor

Jan Winburn

assistant managing editor for enterprise

Winners in Feature Writing

1999

Angelo B. Henderson

For his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime.
1998

Thomas French

For his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.
1997

Lisa Pollak

For her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
1996

Rick Bragg

For his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.
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2000 Prize Winners

Beat Reporting

George Dohrmann

For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
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