The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 18, 2011. The Los Angeles Times won two prizes, including the highest honor for Public Service. The New York Times also won two awards. No prize was handed out in the Breaking News category. The Wall Street Journal won an award for the first time since 2007. Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad picked up the Fiction prize after already winning the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award. Photographer Carol Guzy of The Washington Post became the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes. In December 2010, three rules changes were revealed for the 2011 Awards. The first allows print and online outlets that publish at least weekly to use a number of media to report the news "including text reporting, videos, databases, multimedia or interactive presentations or any combination of those formats". The second rule change allows up to five people to be named in an award citation; the previous limit was three. The final rule change allows for digital submission of images to the judges in the two photography categories. Below, the winner in each category are listed.
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting to Paige St. John "for her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action."
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting to Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry "for their dogged reporting that put a human face on the faltering justice system in Russia, remarkably influencing the discussion inside the country."
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, "an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed."
Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, "a powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and perceptive ways to America's sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness."
Pulitzer Prize for History to ' by Eric Foner, "a well orchestrated examination of Lincoln's changing views of slavery, bringing unforeseeable twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story."
Pulitzer Prize for Biography to ' by Ron Chernow, "a sweeping, authoritative portrait of an iconic leader learning to master his private feelings in order to fulfill his public duties."
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction to ' by Siddhartha Mukherjee, "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science."
Pulitzer Prize for Music to Zhou Long for Madame White Snake, "a deeply expressive opera that draws on a Chinese folk tale to blend the musical traditions of the East and the West".
