Others Recommended for Pulitzers

Here is a list of finalists who did not win the 1994 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--The Albuquerque (N.M.) Tribune for Eileen Welsome’s reports of Americans used unknowingly in radiation experiments (Welsome won in the national reporting category); the Chicago Tribune for a look at child homicide.

Spot news reporting--Los Angeles Times staff for coverage of Southern California fires; Robert D. McFadden of the New York Times for consistently impressive work, often on deadline.

Investigative reporting--Dean Baquet and Jane Fritsch of the New York Times for reporting on Empire Blue Cross fraud and mismanagement; Mark England and Darlene McCormick of the Waco (Tex.) Tribune-Herald for stories on sexual abuse and crime in the Branch Davidian compound.

Explanatory journalism--The Dallas Morning News team for a series on violence against women around the world (this entry won for international reporting); staff of Long Island, N.Y.-based Newsday for investigation of breast cancer incidence.

Beat reporting--Joan Connell of Newhouse News Service for reporting on religion, ethics and morality; John Woestendiek of the Philadelphia Inquirer for coverage of city youths’ promise and peril.

National reporting--Gilbert M. Gaul and Neill A. Borowski of the Philadelphia Inquirer for identifying rampant abuses of nonprofit tax law; Isabel Wilkerson of the New York Times for Midwest floods and other stories (Wilkerson won in the feature writing category).

International reporting--Carol J. Williams of the Los Angeles Times for reporting from the former Yugoslavia; Keith Richburg of the Washington Post for coverage of Somalia.

Feature writing--Mark Feeney of the Boston Globe for Richard Nixon profile; April Witt and Scott Higham of the Miami Herald for reporting on seven teen-agers accused of murdering a friend.

Commentary--Peter H. King of the Los Angeles Times for columns about California; Jane Daugherty of the Detroit Free Press for “Children First” columns.

Criticism--Henry Allen of the Washington Post for cultural criticism; Matt Zoller Seitz of the Dallas Observer for weekly film criticism.

Editorial writing--The Birmingham (Ala.) News editorial board for urging public school reform; Jim Montgomery of the Shreveport (La.) Journal for pros and cons of legalizing drugs.

Editorial cartooning--Stephen R. Benson of the Arizona Republic; Lynn Johnston of Universal Press Syndicate for a sequence in “For Better or For Worse” depicting a teen-ager coming out as a homosexual.

Spot news photography--Los Angeles Times staff for Southern California fires; Kevin Carter, free-lancer, the New York Times, for photo of a starving Sudanese girl and a vulture (Carter won in the feature category).

Feature photography--Associated Press staff for Middle East coverage; Stan Grossfeld of the Boston Globe for a series depicting environmental depletion; April Saul of the Philadelphia Inquirer for depicting struggles of a working-class family.

Arts

Fiction --”The Collected Stores,” by Reynolds Price; “Operation Shylock: A Confession,” by Philip Roth.

Drama --”A Perfect Ganesh,” by Terrence McNally; “Keely and Du,” by Jane Martin (pseudonym).

History--No award given. Nominated as finalists: “Crime and Punishment in American History,” by Lawrence M. Friedman; “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK,” by Gerald Posner; “William Faulkner and Southern History,” by Joel Williamson.

Biography--”In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding,” by Deborah Baker; “Genet: A Biography,” by Edmund White.

Poetry--”Bright Existence,” by Brenda Hillman; “The Metamorphoses of Ovid,” translated by Allen Mandelbaum.

General nonfiction--”The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud,” by Peter Gay; “The End of the Twentieth Century: And The End of The Modern Age,” by John Lukacs.

Music--”Still Movement with Hymn,” by Aaron Jay Kernis; “Microsymphony,” by Charles Wuorinen.