Michael Skube, assistant professor of journalism in the School of Communications, was chairman for the General Nonfiction jury for the 2005 Pulitzer Prizes, which were announced Monday, April 4 by the The Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University in New York. The Board, which comprises distinguished journalists and academics, awarded the prize this year to Steve Coll for “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to Sept. 10, 2001.” The two finalists in the category were “The Devil’s Highway,” by Luis Alberto Urrea CQ/MS and “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,” by Suketu Mehta.
The other members of the General Nonfiction jury were Adam Hochschild, author and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and Frank Wilson, book critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Skube, a past winner of the prize for Criticism, has been a member of numerous Pulitzer juries in recent years and the chairman of three.
Skube was quoted in an April 5 Washington Post article about Coll’s winning book. To read the article, click here.