2012 Pulitzer Prize winners

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Pulitzer Prize announcements, Monday, April 16, 2012 in Seattle.

Investigations editor Jim Neff, second from left, celebrates after the announcement that The Seattle Times investigative reporters Ken Armstrong, left, and Mike Berens, second from right, won the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a series about accidental methadone overdoses among patients with chronic pain, Monday, April 16, 2012 in Seattle. At right, reporter Christine Clarridge gives Berens a hug.

In this March 26, 2011 photo provided by the Huffington Post, Huffington Post reported David Wood is shown. Wood won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its look at the suffering endured by American veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

New York Times reporter David Kocieniewski, center in jacket and tie, receives applause from his colleagues, friends, and family after winning the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, Monday, April 16, 2012, in New York. Shown in New York Times Newsroom are his girlfriend, Audrey Gray, left, and his daughters Devin Barricklow, second left, and Katia Barricklow, third left.

Wesley Morris, center, the paper's film critic who was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, acknowledges the applause from his colleagues, including from left, Globe editor Martin Baron, publisher Christopher Mayer, and critic-at-large Mark Feeney during an announcement ceremony in the newsroom, Monday, April 16, 2012, in Boston.

Eli Sanders, reporter at The Stranger newspaper in Seattle, poses for a photo in Seattle after winning the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing on Monday, April 16, 2012.

Composer Kevin Puts sits by his piano at his home in Yonkers, N.Y. , on Monday, April 16, 2012. Puts received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his opera "Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts."

Patriot-News reporter Sara Ganim, 24, left, calls her sister while hugging Patriot-News reporter Jan Murphy after winning the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting , Monday, April 16, 2012 at the paper's offices in Harrisburg, Pa. Ganim broke the news of the grand jury investigation into allegations against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Tracy K. Smith, a creative writing professor at Princeton University, poses in her Brooklyn apartment after winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry her poetry collection "Life on Mars, " Monday, April 16, 2012 in New York.

In this undated image released by Viking Press, the late Manning Marable, author of "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, " is shown. Marable was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History on Monday, April 16, 2012.

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Investigations editor Jim Neff, second from left, celebrates after the announcement that The Seattle Times investigative reporters Ken Armstrong, left, and Mike Berens, second from right, won the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a series about accidental methadone overdoses among patients with chronic pain, Monday, April 16, 2012 in Seattle. At right, reporter Christine Clarridge gives Berens a hug.

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