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Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories

America's Best Writing, 1979 - 2003
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Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories offers a rich collection of award-winning journalism from 1979 to 2003, showcasing a wide range of powerful and emotionally compelling narratives. Each feature is unique in style but united by strong content and evocative storytelling, presenting touching, frightening, and harrowing accounts from American life. Editor David Garlock provides insightful analyses that explore the writing and reporting techniques behind each remarkable story.
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This book is ideal for journalism students and professional writers seeking to learn from some of the best feature writing in recent American history. It serves as an essential reference for those interested in the craft of narrative journalism and feature storytelling.

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As Garlock relates in the preface, "The quality of the research, reporting and writing of these unique features is stunning. No two are written exactly the same way. But they all hold to one constant: strong emotions and content-powerful, touching, frightening, harrowing journalism.

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The quality of the research, reporting and writing of these unique features is stunning. No two are written exactly the same way. But they all hold to one constant: strong emotions and content - powerful, touching, frightening, harrowing journalism. - David Garlock in the Preface of Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories: America's Best Writing, 1979-2003, Second Edition

The second edition of Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories: America's Best Writing is an unabridged collection of Pulitzer Prize winning work, now covering 25 years. Editor David Garlock analyzes each story, and readers are given a glimpse at the circumstances surrounding the narrative. Each feature is followed by an insightful analysis by Garlock that probes the tactics the feature writer used in both writing and reporting the work.

Journalism students and experienced professional writers will find Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories an essential compendium of the best feature writing of the last quarter century.

Selections new to this edition:

  • 1998 - Thomas French, St. Petersburg Times, "Angels & Demons"
  • 1999 - Angelo B. Henderson, Wall Street Journal, "Crime Scene"
  • 2000 - J. R. Moehringer, Los Angeles Times, "Crossing Over"
  • 2001 - Tom Hallman, Jr., The Oregonian, "The Boy Behind The Mask"
  • 2002 - Barry Siegel, Los Angeles Times, "A Father's Pain"
  • 2003 - Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times, "Enrique's Journey"

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780813825458

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 January 2003

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by David Garlock

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 45.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 1089g

Pages: 822

About the Author

David Garlock is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and heads the magazine program in the School of Journalism in the College of Communication at the University of Texas. He’s a frequent speaker around the country on writing and has given numerous workshops for journalists and the public.

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