Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984: Dr. Seuss, LA Times and others

At the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, Dr. Seuss won the Special Citation award, see other winners from that year here.

The Pulitzer Prize is a reputable award given to authors in all genre of writing. Established in 1917, the prize has become the most highly regarded writing award in the world. Its winners have always been selected for their exceptional works.

Winners are usually split into three categories, namely: journalism, letters, drama, and music, and special citations and awards.

Journalism

1. Los Angeles Times – (Public Service)
   – For an in-depth examination of southern California’s growing Latino community by a team of editors and reporters.
2. Newsday team of reporters – (Local General or Spot News Reporting)
   – For their enterprising and comprehensive coverage of the Baby Jane Doe case and its far-reaching social and political implications.
3. Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitzgerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel of The Boston Globe – (Local Investigative Specialized Reporting)
   – For their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city’s most honored institutions including The Globe itself.
4. John Noble Wilford of The New York Times – (National Reporting)
   – For reporting on a wide variety of scientific topics of national import.
5. Karen Elliott House of The Wall Street Journal – (International Reporting)
   – For her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan’s King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration’s Middle East peace plan.
6. Peter Mark Rinearson of The Seattle Times – (Feature Writing)
   – For “Making It Fly,” his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
7. Vermont Royster of The Wall Street Journal – (Commentary)
8. Paul Goldberger of The New York Times – (Criticism)
   – For architectural criticism.
9. Albert Scardino of Georgia Gazette (Savannah) – (Editorial Writing)
   – For his series of editorials on various local and state matters.
10. Paul Conrad of Los Angeles Times – (Editorial Cartooning)
11. Stan Grossfeld of The Boston Globe – (Spot News Photography)
    – For his series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon.
12. Anthony Suau of The Denver Post – (Feature Photography)
    – For a series of photographs which depict the tragic effects of starvation in Ethiopia and for a single photograph of a woman at her husband’s gravesite on Memorial Day.

Letters, Drama, and Music

1. “Ironweed” by William Kennedy — (Fiction)
2. “Glengarry Glen Ross” by David Mamet — (Drama)
3. No Pulitzer Prize winner(s) was announced in History in 1984.
4. “Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915” by Louis R. Harlan — (Biography or Autobiography)
5. “American Primitive” by Mary Oliver — (Poetry)
6. “The Social Transformation of American Medicine” by Paul Starr — (General Non-Fiction)
7. “Canti del Sole” for Tenor and Orchestra by Bernard Rands — (Music)

Special Citations and Awards

1. Dr. Seus (Theodor Seuss Geisel) – Special citation
   – For his special contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America’s children and their parents.

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