Three members of the University community were recognized yesterday by the Pulitzer Prize Board, which handed out its journalism, letters and drama awards.
Ferris professor of journalism Bart Gellman '82, a former Daily Princetonian Chairman, is among the eight journalists on The Washington Post's national reporting team that received the national reporting prize for its coverage of Sept. 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism.
Gellman teaches HUM 440: The Literature of Fact this term.
Gellman said yesterday in an e-mail from Paris that he is proud to have received the award with his colleagues but hopes never again to experience a similar event.
"I never hope to live through such an awful day again," he said. "But I'm proud to have worked for a newspaper that rose so well to the challenge."
Nat Hentoff, University Ferris Professor of Journalism in Fall 1998, was named a finalist for commentary. He taught a course on the press and civil liberties.
Hentoff, a writer for a New York City weekly, The Village Voice, examined the threats to civil liberties following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Carol Rigolot, executive director of the University Council for the Humanities, said the Ferris-McGraw journalism program has previously produced Pulitzer Prize winning writers.
"It's a wonderful program that brings to Princeton eminent journalists," Rigolot said. "It's not surprising that they're among the Pulitzer winners, but it's wonderful news."
Dael Orlandersmith, commissioned by Princeton's McCarter Theater in 1999 to begin work on the coming-of-age play "Yellowman," was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama.
Sept. 11-focused journalism won most prizes yesterday with The New York Times garnering seven awards.
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