DATE: Tuesday, April 8, 1997                TAG: 9704080328

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A3   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: NEW YORK                          LENGTH:   61 lines

NEW ORLEANS, SEATTLE NEWSPAPERS EACH WIN TWO PULITZER PRIZES

The Times-Picayune of New Orleans won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service award for a series analyzing threats to the world's supply of fish. The Seattle Times also won two of journalism's most prestigious prizes.

The Associated Press won a Pulitzer for a photo of Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert while campaigning for re-election as Russia's president.

In arts categories, the Pulitzer board did not give an award for drama. Wynton Marsalis won for music for ``Blood on the Fields,'' a three-hour oratorio about the black experience in America. Frank McCourt took the prize for biography with his first book, ``Angela's Ashes: A Memoir,'' the story of his childhood in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.

Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson and Alex Tizon of The Seattle Times won for investigative reporting for their stories on widespread corruption in a federally sponsored housing program for American Indians. The newspaper's Byron Acohido won the beat reporting prize for his coverage of the aerospace industry. The stories disclosed rudder control problems in Boeing 737s, resulting in new federal safety requirements.

The prizes are presented annually by Columbia University. Prizes include an award of $5,000, except for the public service award, which is a gold medal.

Winners include:

JOURNALISM

Public service - The Times-Picayune, New Orleans

Spot news reporting - staff of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.

Investigative reporting - Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson and Alex Tizon of The Seattle Times

Explanatory journalism -

Michael Vitez, Ron Cortes and April Saul of The Philadelphia Inquirer

Beat reporting - Byron Acohido of The Seattle Times

National reporting - staff of The Wall Street Journal

International reporting - John F. Burns of The New York Times

Feature writing - Lisa Pollak of The (Baltimore) Sun

Commentary - Eileen McNamara of The Boston Globe

Criticism - Tim Page of The Washington Post

Editorial writing - Michael Gartner of The Daily Tribune, Ames, Iowa

Editorial cartooning - Walt Handelsman of The Times-Picayune, New Orleans

Spot news photography - Annie Wells of The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Feature photography - Alexander Zemlianichenko of The Associated Press

ARTS

Fiction - ``Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer,'' by Steven Millhauser

Drama - no award

History - ``Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution,'' by Jack N. Rakove

Biography - ``Angela's Ashes: A Memoir,'' by Frank McCourt

Poetry - ``Alive Together: New and Selected Poems,'' by Lisel Mueller

General non-fiction - ``Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris,'' by Richard Kluger

Music - ``Blood on the Fields,'' by Wynton Marsalis

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