2009 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Women

Kudos to the women who now have a new bullet point on their résumés.

The 93rd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday by Columbia University and here is information on the female recipients.

Alexandra Berzon was one of seven women to be awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Berzon won the public-service prize, receiving a gold medal, for her reporting for the Las Vegas Sun on the high death rate among construction-worker deaths on the Las Vegas Strip.

Lane DeGregory won for feature writing for the St. Petersburg Times. It was in recognition for her in-depth coverage of a neglected little girl found in a dirty apartment and then adopted by a warm family.

Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times won for reporting on the cost and effectiveness of combating the devastating wildfires across the western United States.

Elizabeth Strout won for fiction for Olive Kitteridge. The book, which linked 13 short stories, takes place in a small town in Maine and follows a flawed schoolteacher’s emotional journey to retirement.

Rutgers University professor Annette Gordon-Reed won a Pulitzer for documenting history in The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, which follows the life and family of Sally Hemings, the slave who many believe had a relationship with Thomas Jefferson. Playwright Lynn Nottage won for drama for her play Ruined. Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa, the play follows the struggling lives of denizens and the women who live in fear in the war-torn Congo.

Click here to view the complete list of award recipients and nominees.

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