Skip to main content
The 2003 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Writing

Finalist: The Plain Dealer , by Connie Schultz

For her moving story about a wrongfully convicted man who refused to succumb to anger or bitterness.

Winners

Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 2003:

Sonia Nazario

For "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States. Feature Writing

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2003:

David Stabler

For his sensitive, sometimes surprising chronicle of a teenage prodigy's struggle with a musical talent that proved to be both a gift and a problem.

The Jury

Joanne Lipman(chair )

deputy managing editor

Neville Green

managing editor/Tampa

Jack Hart

managing editor

W. Curtis Riddle

president and publisher

Joyce Terhaar

managing editor

Allison Walzer

editor

James C. Warren

deputy managing editor/features

Winners in Feature Writing

2002

Barry Siegel

For his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case.
2001

Tom Hallman Jr.

For his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance.
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.

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.
See All Feature Writing

2003 Prize Winners

Beat Reporting

Diana K. Sugg

For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.
See All 2003 Winners