Alumni Win 2008 Pulitzer Prizes

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<p>[The</a> Pulitzer Prizes](<a href=“The Pulitzer Prizes”>http://www.pulitzer.org/)
[Washington</a> Post leads Pulitzer winners - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/07/pulitzers.ap/index.html]Washington”>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/07/pulitzers.ap/index.html)</p>

<p>Princeton undergraduate alumni won two of the Pulitzer Prizes that were just announced today. </p>

<p>2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography</p>

<p>John T. Matteson, an associate professor of English at the City University of New York won the Prize in Biography for his book “Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father.” Prof. Matteson received his A.B. in History from Princeton.</p>

<p>[Professor</a> Matteson](<a href=“http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~english/matteson.htm]Professor”>http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~english/matteson.htm)</p>

<p>2008 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting</p>

<p>Barton Geliman is a special projects reporter on the national staff of The Washington Post, after tours as diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief, Pentagon correspondent and D.C. Superior Court reporter.</p>

<p>Geilman shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2002 and has been a jury-nominated finalist (for individual and team entries) three times. His work has also been honored by the Overseas Press Club of America, the Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi) and the American Society of Newspaper Editors.</p>

<p>Geilman graduated summa cüm laude from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and earned a master’s degree in politics at University College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of “Contending With Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power,” a study of the post-World War II “containment” doctrine and of its architect, George F. Kennan</p>

<p>[Barton</a> Gellman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Gellman]Barton”>Barton Gellman - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>[Washington</a> Post Reporter Barton Gellman - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2006/06/08/LI2006060801222.html]Washington”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2006/06/08/LI2006060801222.html)</p>

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<p>It appears that there was a third Princeton alumnus who shared in a Pulitzer Prize yesterday.</p>

<p>2008 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting</p>

<p>Ian Shapira ’00 shared the prize as a member of the Washington Post team “for its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online.” While at Princeton, Shapira was the executive editor for opinion for the Daily Princetonian.</p>