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The 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing
For a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).

Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph , by Dave Curtin

For a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 1990:

Jay Reed

For a poignant series about his return to Vietnam.

Mark Kriegel

For "The People's Court," a detailed account of the game of basketball as it is played on New York City playgrounds.

The Jury

William E. Ahearn(Chair)

Executive Editor, Associated Press

Benjamin J. Burns

Editor and Publisher, Macomb Daily/Daily Tribune/Adams Newspapers, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Robert J. Haiman

President and Managing Director, Poynter Institute

Pam McAllister Johnson

Publisher, Ithaca Journal

John Smee

Adjunct Professor of Communications, Fordham University

Winners in Feature Writing

1988

Jacqui Banaszynski

For her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community.
1986

John Camp

For his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression.
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1990 Prize Winners

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