FICTION
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
DRAMA
Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley
HISTORY
Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)
BIOGRAPHY
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf)
POETRY
Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
GENERAL NON-FICTION
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press)
MUSIC
Second Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky (Theodore Presser Company)
Up here in Portland many of us are swelling with civic pride over the fact that, “Nigel Jaquiss, a reporter for the alternative weekly newspaper Willamette Week, won a the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reprting Monday for his exposure of former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt’s sexual abuse of a 14-year old girl.
“The revelations of abuse, which disgraced one of the most admired public figures in modern Oregon history, provoked an uproar in the state and are still causing repercussions. Goldschmidt, a power broker in state politics, withdrew from all public activities after he admitted the abuse as Willamette Week prepared to publish last May.
” ‘It’s a fantastic honor and really unexpected,’ Jaquiss said. Willamette Week is only the third alternative weekly paper, after the Boston Phoenix and New York’s Village Voice- to be awarded journalism’s highest prize.”
(from The Oregonian)