For a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).
St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch , by Jacqui Banaszynski
For her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community.
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 1988:
John Dorschner
For richly detailed stories about a violent neighborhood feud, ethnic tensions in the Miami police department and Holocaust survivors in South Florida.
Lynne Duke
For her powerful story about life at a housing project overrun by the drug crack.
Winners in Feature Writing
Steve Twomey
For his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier.
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.
Alice Steinbach
For her account of a blind boy's world, "A Boy of Unusual Vision."
Peter Mark Rinearson
For "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
1988 Prize Winners
Dave Barry
For his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns.
Tom Shales
For his television criticism.