Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

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List of winners and their official citations

• 1970: Ada Louise Huxtable
  Ada Louise Huxtable
  
  Ada Louise Huxtable is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished criticism." Her father, Michael Landman, was co-author of the play "A Man of Honor."...
  , New York Times, "for distinguished criticism during 1969."
• 1971: Harold C. Schonberg
  Harold C. Schonberg
  
  Harold Charles Schonberg was an American music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times. He was the first music critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism ....
  , New York Times, "for his music criticism during 1970."
• 1972: Frank Peters Jr., St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  
  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwest region, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri as far south as Memphis, TN and as far north as Springfield, Illinoi...
  , "for his music criticism during 1971."
• 1973: Ronald Powers
  Ron Powers
  
  Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer. His works include White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal, Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and Mark Twain: A Life....
  , Chicago Sun-Times
  Chicago Sun-Times
  
  The Chicago Sun-Times is an United States daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois....
  , "for his critical writing about television during 1972."
• 1974: Emily Genauer, Newsday
  Newsday
  
  Newsday is a daily tabloid-size, Pulitzer Prize-winning, United States newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area....
  , "for her critical writing about art and artists."
• 1975: Roger Ebert
  Roger Ebert
  
  Roger Joseph Ebert born June 18, 1942) is an United States film criticism and screenwriter.He is known for his film review column and for two television programs Sneak Previews and At the Movies , which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel....
  , Chicago Sun-Times
  Chicago Sun-Times
  
  The Chicago Sun-Times is an United States daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois....
  , "for his film criticism during 1974."
• 1976: Alan M. Kriegsman, Washington Post, "for his critical writing about dance during 1975."
• 1977: William McPherson
  William McPherson (critic)
  
  William McPherson is an United States editor and literary critic who is most famous for his editorial work at publications such as the Washington Post as well as his various novels....
  , Washington Post, "for his contribution to 'Book World.'"
• 1978: Walter Kerr
  Walter Kerr
  
  Walter Francis Kerr was an American writer and Broadway theater critic. He also was a writer, lyricist, and director of several Broadway musicals....
  , New York Times, "for articles on the theater in 1977 and throughout his long career."
• 1979: Paul Gapp, Chicago Tribune
  Chicago Tribune
  
  "The Trib" redirects here. For other newspapers with similar names, see Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company....
  , architecture
• 1980: William A. Henry III
  William A. Henry III
  
  William A. Henry III was an award-winning United States cultural critic and author.Henry lived in Boston as a young man and began his career in journalism in that city, writing for the Boston Globe....
  , Boston Globe, "for critical writing about television."
• 1981: Jonathan Yardley
  Jonathan Yardley
  
  Jonathan Yardley is a critic for the The Washington Post, and at one time for the Washington Star. In 1981 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism....
  , Washington Star
  Washington Star
  
  The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C....
  , "for his book reviews."
• 1982: Martin Bernheimer
  Martin Bernheimer
  
  Martin Bernheimer is an American music critic. He studied at Brown University and the Hochschule f?r Musik in Munich, along with the famous musicologist Gustave Reese at New York University....
  , Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles Times
  
  The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
  , "for classical music criticism."
• 1983: Manuela Hoelterhoff, Wall Street Journal, "for her wide-ranging criticism on the arts and other subjects."
• 1984: Paul Goldberger
  Paul Goldberger
  
  Paul Goldberger is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic. He is well known for his "Sky Line" column in The New Yorker.Shortly after starting as a writer at The New York Times in 1972, he was assigned to write the obituary of architect Louis Kahn, who died suddenly of a heart attack in a bathroom in New York's Penn...
  , New York Times, "for architectural criticism."
• 1985: Howard Rosenberg
  Howard Rosenberg
  
  Howard Rosenberg is a retired TV critic for the Los Angeles Times. He worked there for 25 years and won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In recent years he has written the book No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-Hour News Cycle with Charles S....
  , Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles Times
  
  The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
  , "for his television criticism."
• 1986: Donal Henehan, New York Times, "for his music criticism."
• 1987: Richard Eder
  Richard Eder
  
  Richard Eder was for 20 years variously a foreign correspondent, a Film criticism and the drama critic for the New York Times. Subsequently he was book critic for the Los Angeles Times, winning a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and the National Book Critics Circle annual citation....
  , Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles Times
  
  The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
  , "for his book reviews."
• 1988: Tom Shales
  Tom Shales
  
  Tom Shales is an US critic of television programming and operations. He is best-known as critic for The Washington Post; in 1988, Shales received the Pulitzer Prize....
  , Washington Post, "for his television criticism."
• 1989: Michael Skube
  Michael Skube
  
  Michael Skube is a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winner. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University. In 1975 he started working freelance in journalism after working at the Customs Service....
  , The News & Observer
  The News & Observer
  
  The News & Observer is the regional daily newspaper of the Research Triangle area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The N&O, as it is popularly called, is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and also covers Durham, North Carolina, Cary, North Carolina and Chapel Hill, North Carolina....
   (Raleigh, North Carolina), "for his writing about books and other literary topics."
• 1990: Allan Temko
  Allan Temko
  
  Allan Bernard Temko was a Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic and writer based in San Francisco.Graduating from Columbia University in 1947, Temko taught for seven years in France and produced a landmark book about Notre Dame de Paris....
  , San Francisco Chronicle
  San Francisco Chronicle
  
  The San Francisco Chronicle is Northern California's largest newspaper, serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California, from the Sacramento, California area and Emerald Triangle south to San Luis Obispo County....
  , "for his architecture criticism."
• 1991: David Shaw
  David Shaw (writer)
  
  David Shaw was a Los Angeles Times journalist known for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1991. He did criticism of food, wine, and film, but is perhaps best known for taking a critical eye on the media itself....
  , Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles Times
  
  The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
  , "for his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin preschool trial
  McMartin preschool trial
  
  The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case of the 1980s. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in California, were charged with numerous acts of sexual abuse of children in their care....
  ."
• 1992: no award given
• 1993: Michael Dirda
  Michael Dirda
  
  Michael Dirda , a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, is an award-winning book critic for the Washington Post. Having studied at Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree, Dirda took a Ph.D....
  , Washington Post, "for his book reviews."
• 1994: Lloyd Schwartz
  Lloyd Schwartz
  
  Lloyd Schwartz is an United States poet who is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air....
  , Boston Phoenix, "for his skillful and resonant classical music criticism."
• 1995: Margo Jefferson
  Margo Jefferson
  
  Margo Lillian Jefferson is a theatre critic at The New York Times and a notable, full-time professor at Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts....
  , New York Times, "for her book reviews and other cultural criticism."
• 1996: Robert Campbell
  Robert Campbell (journalist)
  
  Robert Campbell is a writer and architect. He is currently the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Boston Globe. He lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
  , Boston Globe, "for his knowledgeable writing on architecture."
• 1997: Tim Page
  Tim Page (music critic)
  
  Tim Page is a writer, editor, producer and professor. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for the Washington Post and also played an essential role in the revival of American author Dawn Powell....
  , Washington Post, "for his lucid and illuminating music criticism."
• 1998: Michiko Kakutani
  Michiko Kakutani
  
  is a Japanese American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times....
  , New York Times, "for her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature."
• 1999: Blair Kamin
  Blair Kamin
  
  Blair Kamin is the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, a post he has held since 1992. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and continues a tradition of accessible but authoritative criticism begun by the Tribune's first modern-day architecture critic, Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Gapp....
  , Chicago Tribune
  Chicago Tribune
  
  "The Trib" redirects here. For other newspapers with similar names, see Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company....
  , "for his lucid coverage of city architecture, including an influential series supporting the development of Chicago's lakefront area."
• 2000: Henry Allen
  Henry Allen (journalist)
  
  Henry Allen is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and critic.See also*Pulitzer Prize for Criticism...
  , Washington Post, "for his fresh and authoritative writing on photography."
• 2001: Gail Caldwell
  Gail Caldwell
  
  Gail Caldwell is the chief book critic for The Boston Globe, where she has been on staff since 1985. Caldwell was the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize for Criticism....
  , Boston Globe, "for her insightful observations on contemporary life and literature."
• 2002: Justin Davidson
  Justin davidson
  
  Justin Davidson is a classical music and architecture critic. He began his journalism career as a local stringer for the Associated Press in Rome before moving to the United States to study music at Harvard....
  , Newsday
  Newsday
  
  Newsday is a daily tabloid-size, Pulitzer Prize-winning, United States newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area....
  , "for his crisp coverage of classical music that captures its essence."
• 2003: Stephen Hunter
  Stephen Hunter
  
  For the American basketball player, see Steven Hunter.Stephen Hunter is an United States novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Film criticism....
  , Washington Post, "for his authoritative film criticism that is both intellectually rewarding and a pleasure to read."
• 2004: Dan Neil
  Dan Neil
  
  Dan Neil is an automotive columnist for the Los Angeles Times, noted for his reviews of automobiles. Neil won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2004 for his column Rumble Seat in the Times....
  , Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles Times
  
  The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
  , "for his one-of-a-kind reviews of automobiles, blending technical expertise with offbeat humor and astute cultural observations."
• 2005: Joe Morgenstern
  Joe Morgenstern
  
  Joe Morgenstern is a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Wall Street Journal.His movie reviews appear each Friday in the "Weekend & Leisure" section of the newspaper, and he writes a column about the movie industry which appears in the paper every other Saturday....
   of Wall Street Journal, "for his reviews that elucidated the strengths and weaknesses of film with rare insight, authority and wit."
• 2006: Robin Givhan
  Robin Givhan
  
  Robin Givhan is the fashion editor for The Washington Post. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, the first such time for a fashion writer....
   of Washington Post, "for her witty, closely observed essays
  Essay
  
  An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal Perspective . Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author....
   that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism."
• 2007: Jonathan Gold
  Jonathan Gold
  
  Jonathan Gold is a food critic who currently writes for LA Weekly and Gourmet magazine. In 2007 he became the first such critic to win the Pulitzer Prize....
   of LA Weekly
  LA Weekly
  
  LA Weekly is a free Weekly newspaper tabloid-sized newspaper in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas....
  , "for his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater."
• 2008: Mark Feeney
  Mark Feeney
  
  Mark Feeney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic for The Boston Globe. Feeney graduated from Harvard in 1979 and has been working for the paper almost ever since, as a researcher, writer, and editor, in various capacities....
   of The Boston Globe
  The Boston Globe
  
  The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in New England, United States. Owned by The New York Times Company, the broadsheet Globes local print rival is the Boston Herald....
  , "for his penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting."

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