Full list of 2012 Pulitzer winners and finalists below
JOURNALISM
Public Service —
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Breaking News Reporting —
The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News Staff
Investigative Reporting —
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley
of the Associated Press and Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times
Explanatory Reporting —
David Kocieniewski of The New York Times
Local Reporting —
Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff, Harrisburg, Penn.
National Reporting —
David Wood of The Huffington Post
International Reporting —
Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times
Feature Writing —
Eli Sanders of The Stranger, a Seattle weekly
Commentary —
Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune
Criticism —
Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing —
No Award
Editorial Cartooning —
Matt Wuerker of POLITICO
Breaking News Photography —
Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse
Feature Photography —
Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post
LETTERS AND DRAMA
Fiction —
No Award
Drama —
Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
History —
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by the late Manning Marable (Viking)
Biography —
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
Poetry —
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction —
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Company)
MUSIC
Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts by Kevin Puts, commisioned and premiered by the Minnesota Opera in Minneapolis on November 12, 2011.