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The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Writing

Finalist: Los Angeles Times , by Richard E. Meyer

For "Buried Alive," his chilling profile of a woman's desperate attempts to communicate after being left mute and paralyzed by strokes.

Winners

Prize Winner in Feature Writing in 1996:

Rick Bragg

For his elegantly written stories about contemporary America. Feature Writing

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 1996:

Hank Stuever

For his detailed and highly personal account of returning to his hometown of Oklahoma City after the bombing there.

The Jury

Jacqui Banazynski(chair )*

senior editor/enterprise

Lawrence K. Beaupre

vice president and editor

Van King

president and publisher

Ron Martin

editor

John Woestendiek*

reporter

Winners in Feature Writing

1995

Ron Suskind

For his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper.
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.
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1996 Prize Winners

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