NEW YORK -- The Denver Post won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize today for Public Service, Edna Buchanan of the Miami Herald was named winner for general news reporting and Jeffrey Marx and Michael York of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader were the winners for investigative reporting.
Other winners included The New York Times staff for explanatory journalism; Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty of The Pittsburgh Press for specialized reporting; Craig Flournoy and George Rodrigue of The Dallas Morning News and Arthur Howe of The Philadelphia Inquirer for national reporting; and Lewis Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Ellison of the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News for international reporting, and Donal Henahan of The New York Times for criticism.
John Camp of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch won for feature writing; Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News won for commentary; Jack Fuller of the Chicago Tribune for editorial writing; Jules Feiffer of The Village Voice for editorial cartooning.
Carol Guzy and Michel duCille of The Miami Herald won for spot news photography, and Tom Gralish of The Philadelphia Inquirer for Feature Photography.
'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry won the prize for fiction; '... the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age' by Walter McDougall won for history; 'Louise Bogan: A Portrait' by Elizabeth Frank won for biography; 'The Flying Change' by Henry Taylor won for poetry; and 'Move Your Shadow' by Joseph Lelyveld and 'Common Ground' by J. Anthony Lukas won for general non-fiction.
'Wind Quintet IV' by George Perle won the prize for music. No award was given in drama.
The Pulitzer Prize Board met Monday and Tuesday to pick the winners from 63 finalists, said Fred Knubel, a spokesman for Columbia University. The board is made up of 18 prominent editors, publishers and news executives.
In March, panels of 65 editors picked three finalists in each category and recommended winners for the journalism awards. The arts and letter finalists were picked by three-member juries that met independently.
Knubel said there were a record number of entries this year. There were 1,634 submissions in 1985, up from 1,560 in last year, he noted.
Winners receive $1,000 from a fund set up by publishing magnate Joseph Pulitzer in his will at the turn of the century. The public service award in journalism is the only prize that does not carry a cash award, with winners receiving a gold medal instead.
The Hungarian-born Pulitzer bought the St. Louis Dispatch and St. Louis Post in 1878, merging them to become one of the most prominent newspapers in the country.
