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PUBLIC SERVICE
Two Prizes: The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.

The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La.

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
Staff of The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith of The Washington Post

EXPLANATORY REPORTING
David Finkel of The Washington Post

BEAT REPORTING
Dana Priest of The Washington Post

NATIONAL REPORTING
Two Prizes: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times

Staffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of The New York Times

FEATURE WRITING
Jim Sheeler of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.

COMMENTARY
Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times

CRITICISM
Robin Givhan of The Washington Post

EDITORIAL WRITING
Rick Attig and Doug Bates of The Oregonian, Portland

EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Mike Luckovich of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Staff of The Dallas Morning News

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.

FICTION
March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

DRAMA
No Award

HISTORY
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)

BIOGRAPHY
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)

POETRY
Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)

GENERAL NON-FICTION
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)

MUSIC
Piano Concerto: 'Chiavi in Mano' by Yehudi Wyner (Associated Music Publishers)

SPECIAL CITATIONS
Edmund S. Morgan

Thelonious Monk