NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles Times newspaper, the book "A Visit from the Goon Squad" and the play "Clybourne Park" are among 2011's Pulitzer Prize winners.
The honorees were announced Monday.
The Times won the Pulitzer for public service, while the newspaper's Barbara Davidson picked up the award for feature photography.
Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune earned the honor for investigative reporting; Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel won the Pulitzer for explanatory reporting; Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times won the award for local reporting; Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica scooped up the prize for national reporting; and Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times won the Pulitzer for international reporting; and Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., garnered the gong for feature writing.
David Leonhardt of The New York Times won the Pulitzer for commentary; Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe picked up the prize for criticism; Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal won the award for editorial writing; Mike Keefe of The Denver Post earned the honor for editorial cartooning; and Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post won the prize for breaking news photography.
"A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan won the award for fiction; "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris earned the award for drama; "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" by Eric Foner garnered the award for history; "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow scored the Pulitzer for biography; "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems" by Kay Ryan took the prize for poetry; "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee topped the general non-fiction category; and "Madame White Snake" by Zhou Long won the award for music.
