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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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Year Category Honoree Title Publisher/Airer Sitesort icon
1961 Book Jane Jacobs Death and Life of Great American Cities
1960 Book David McEntire Residence and Race
1960 Book William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1959 Book Harold M. Hyman To Try Men
1958 Book John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society
1957 Book Wilma Dykeman & James Stokely Neither Black Nor White
1956 Book Walter Gellhorn Individual Freedom and Government Restraints
1955 Book John Lord O National Security and Individual Freedom
1954 Book Henry Steele Commager Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent
1953 Book Theodore H. White Fire in the Ashes
1952 Book Herbert Block The Herblock Book
1951 Book Alan Barth The Loyalty of Free Men
1950 Book John Hersey The Wall
2007 Newspaper Rukmini Maria Callimachi Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath The Associated Press
2005 Newspaper Peter G. Gosselin The New Deal Los Angeles Times
2003 Newspaper Ellen Schultz & Theo Francis Valued Employees: Worker Dies, Firm Profits Wall Street Journal
2002 Newspaper David Olinger Seller Beware The Denver Post
2001 Newspaper Ellen Schultz selected articles on pension cuts Wall Street Journal
2000 Newspaper Maya Bell Why Children Kill The Orlando Sentinel
1998 Newspaper Jerry Mitchell The Preacher and the Klansman& other investigative reporting on the KKK The Clarion-Ledger
1997 Newspaper Jason DeParle Learning Poverty Firsthand& other stories of welfare reform The New York Times
1996 Newspaper Rita Giordano & Alfred Lubrano Passyunk Homes: Welfare The Philadelphia Inquirer
1995 Newspaper Chris Kelley for the series Whither the Cities? The Dallas Morning News
1994 Newspaper Jim Morris for the series Worked to Death Houston Chronicle
1993 Newspaper Eileen Welsome for the series The Plutonium Experiment The Albuquerque Tribune