MIAMI HERALD WINS PULITZER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE NEW YORK (APRIL 13) UPI - The Miami Herald Tuesday won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of Hurricane Andrew and the Los Angeles Times won for spot news reporting for its description of the second day of the Los Angeles riots.
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" by Robert Olen Butler, the author of six novels who teaches at McNeese University at Lake Charles, La.
"Truman" by David McCullough, a best-selling study of Harry S Truman and his era that was 10 years in the writing, was picked for the prize in biography.
The history prize went to "The Radicalism of the American Revolution" by Gordon S. Wood (Knopf), a professor of history at Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Reporters Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry of the Orlando Sentinel won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with their stories on the seizure of millions of dollars from motorists by a sheriff's drug squad.
Mike Toner of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution won the prize for explanatory journalism for his series on the diminishing effectiveness of antibiotics and pesticides.
Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White of the Wall Street Journal won for beat reporting for their "often exclusive coverge of General Motors' management turmoil."
The national reporting prize went to David Maraniss of the Washington Post for his stories on the life and political record of Bill Clinton.
John F. Burns of The New York Times and Roy Gutman of Newsday won for international reporting for their stories of the brutal warfare in the former Yugoslavia.
Burns' prize came for his reporting of the destruction of Sarajevo and the killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Gutman was honored for his coverage of the atrocities and other human rights violations in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The feature writing prize went to George Lardner Jr. of the Washington Post for "his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system."
Liz Balmaseda of the Miami Herald won for commentary for her dispatches from Haiti about deteriorating social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.
Michael Dirda of the Washington Post was awarded the criticism prize for his book reviews.
There was no award for editorial writing.
Stephen R. Benson of the Arizona Republic won for editorial cartooning.
Ken Geiger and William Snyder of the Dallas Morning News won for spot news photography for their coverage of the 1992 summer Olympics.
The feature photography prize went to the Associated Press staff for its portfolio of images drawn from the 1992 presidential campaign.
The drama award went to Tony Kushner for his "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches," an epic fantasy view of the Reagan era.
The prize in general non-fiction went to Garry Wills for his "Lincoln at Gettsburg: The Words That Remade America," (Simon & Schuster).
Louise Gluck's "The Wild Iris," (Ecco Press), won the prize for poetry.
The music prize went to "Trombone Concerto" by Christopher Rouse.
