Pulitzer prizes
Neil Sheehan, the journalist who uncovered the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has won a Pulitzer Prize for a Vietnam War history that took him 16 painful years to write. Sheehan, a former “New York Times” reporter, won the general non-fic-tion award for “A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.”
Also winning major non-jouranalism prizes were the playwright, Wendy Wasserstein for her hit Broadway play about baby-hoomers, “The Heidi Chronicles,” and the novelist, Anne Tyler for “Breathing Lessons.”
The history prize was shared by Taylor Branch for “Parting the Waters,” about the civil-rights movement and the role of Martin Luther King, and a college professor James McPherson, for “Battle Cry of Freedom,” a history of the American Civil War.
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