Barry Honored as Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Dan Barry, a New York Times columnist and 1980 alumnus of St. Bonaventure University, has once again been honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing.

Barry was honored Monday for his portfolio of closely observed pieces that movingly capture how the recession is changing lives and relationships in America. Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post won the feature writing Pulitzer for his haunting story about parents, from varying walks of life, who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars.

Barry was also a Pulitzer runnerup in 2006 for his rich series of pieces capturing slices of life in hurricane-battered New Orleans as well as his own New York City.

A Lenna Endowed Visiting Professor at SBU in 2009, Barry has been on two reporting teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes.

In 1994, he and four other members of an investigative team for the Providence Journal-Bulletin won a Pulitzer for a series of articles about corruption in that state’s court system. The series led to widespread judicial reform and to the criminal indictment of the state Supreme Court chief justice. In 2002, Barry was a member of The New York Times team awarded a Pulitzer for coverage of the World Trade Center disaster and its aftermath.

Barry has written two books: “Pull Me Up: A Memoir,” which has been favorably compared to Frank McCourt’s best-selling “Angela’s Ashes,” and “City Lights: Stories About New York.”

He has been described by Lee Coppola, dean of the Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication, as “the best pure writer” to come out of the school’s 60-year program. SBU has produced four other Pulitzer Prize winners.

To read Dan Barry’s “This Land” column, go to topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/columns/danbarry.

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