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The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Writing

Finalist: The St. Petersburg (FL) Times , by Anne V. Hull

For her account of a local businessman's secret life of drug addiction and consorting with prostitutes.

Winners

Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 1995:

Ron Suskind

For his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper. Feature Writing

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 1995:

David Finkel

For his story examining middle class flight from the District of Columbia, and for two profiles: of a family that watches television 17 hours a day, and of a Rush Limbaugh fan.

Fen Montaigne

For stories about people who enjoy the outdoors, especially those with a passion for fishing.

The Jury

Linda Grist Cunningham(chair )

executive editor

Mei-Mei Chan

executive editor

Roy Peter Clark

senior scholar

Van King

president and publisher

Louis M. Perez

executive editor

Winners in Feature Writing

1994

Isabel Wilkerson

For her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
1993

George Lardner Jr.

For his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.
1992

Howell Raines

For "Grady's Gift," an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship.
1991

Sheryl James

For a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
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1995 Prize Winners

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