
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 19, 1995                   TAG: 9504200048
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                 LENGTH: Short

PULITZER PRIZES AWARDED

Horton Foote, who has celebrated resilience and rebirth in his native Texas in a long and honored career, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for drama Tuesday for his dark and brooding play, ``The Young Man From Atlanta.''

With about 50 plays to his credit, the 79-year-old Foote's fame has come from acclaimed and prize-winning screenplays - ``To Kill a Mockingbird,'' ``The Trip to Bountiful'' and ``Tender Mercies.'' ``I'm rejoicing,'' he said from his home in Wharton, Texas.

The Pulitzer for fiction was awarded to Carol Shields for her well-received novel, ``Stone Diaries.''

``No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'' by Doris Kearns Goodwin received the Pulitzer for history.

The Virgin Islands Daily News of St. Thomas won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for its reporting on the links between the region's crime wave and corruption in the criminal justice system.

Four news organizations won two awards each. The Associated Press won for coverage of the Rwanda crisis - for international reporting by Mark Fritz and for feature photography by Jacqueline Arzt, Javier Bauluz, Jean-Marc Bouju and Karsten Thielker.

Newsday won for investigative reporting and commentary, The Wall Street Journal for national reporting and feature writing and The Washington Post for explanatory journalism and spot news photography.

by CNB