Non-Winning Finalists for Pulitzers Are Listed

Following is a list of non-winning finalists for the 1991 Pulitzer Prizes. Pulitzer juries make up to three recommendations in each category without listing them in order of preference. The Pulitzer board, which awards the prizes, is not limited to these recommendations in choosing a winner.

JOURNALISM:

Public service--Los Angeles Times, series by David Freed on impact of crime rate on criminal justice system; Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, series on race attitudes in state, including at the newspaper itself.

Spot news reporting--Detroit News staff, coverage of two jets colliding at Metropolitan Airport; New York Newsday staff, coverage of fire that killed 87 at Bronx social club.

Investigative reporting--Candy J. Cooper, San Francisco Examiner, reports that Oakland police routinely neglected to investigate rape charges; Ray Herndon, Dallas Times Herald, stories that freed innocent man from 55-year prison term.

Explanatory journalism--Charles A. Hite, Roanoke (Va.) Times & World-News, life-and-death decisions at local intensive-care unit; Ronald Kotulak and Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune, series on genetic research.

Beat reporting--Scott Harper, the Capital, Annapolis, Md., hazing, sexual harassment and biased treatment of women at U.S. Naval Academy; David Shaw, Los Angeles Times, how media covered public issues.

National reporting--Bruce D. Butterfield, the Boston Globe, child labor abuses in nine states; Charles Green, Knight-Ridder Inc., problems and failures of Medicaid.

International reporting--the Wall Street Journal staff, coverage of Persian Gulf crisis.

Feature writing--Tad Bartimus, the Associated Press, death of father from lung cancer; Wil Haygood, the Boston Globe, three portraits of African-American life.

Commentary--columnists Rheta Grimsley Johnson, the Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.; Philip Terzian, the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin; and William F. Woo, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Criticism--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, columns on art; Joyce Millman, San Francisco Examiner, television criticism; Leslie Savan, the Village Voice, New York weekly, critiques of advertising.

Editorial writing--Seth Lipsky, the Forward, New York weekly, on various issues including some of specific interest to American Jews; Martin F. Nolan, the Boston Globe, series “Why Politics Stinks.”

Editorial cartooning--Ralph Dunagin, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel; Signe Wilkinson, Philadelphia Daily News.

Spot news photography--Detroit Free Press photo staff, Nelson Mandela’s release and trip to America; Newsday photo staff, crash of Avianca Flight 52 in Cove Neck, N.Y.

Feature photography--Ron Cortes, the Philadelphia Inquirer, senior citizen’s return to high school; Jay Mather, the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, Yosemite National Park’s centennial.

THE ARTS:

Fiction--”Mean Spirit,” by Linda Hogan; “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien.

Drama--”Six Degrees of Separation,” by John Guare; “Prelude to a Kiss,” by Craig Lucas.

History--”Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939,” by Lizabeth Cohen; “The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy,” by Hugh Davis Graham; “America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink,” by Kenneth M. Stampp.

Biography--”The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918,” by Patricia O’Toole; “Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family,” by Joseph Frazier Wall.

Poetry--”The Transparent Man,” by Anthony Hecht; “Leaving Another Kingdom,” by Gerald Stern.

General nonfiction--”River of Traps: A Village Life,” by William deBuys and Alex Harris; “Looking for a Ship,” by John McPhee.

Music--”Four Movements for Piano,” by Bright Sheng; “Wilde: A Symphony in Three Movements,” by Charles Fussell.