The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality. List of winners:

• 1979: Jon D. Franklin , Baltimore Evening Sun , for an account of brain surgery.
• 1980: Madeleine Blais , Miami Herald, for "Zepp's Last Stand."
• 1981: Teresa Carpenter , Village Voice
• 1982: Saul Pett , Associated Press, for an article profiling the federal bureaucracy.
• 1983: Nan Robertson , New York Times, for her memorable and medically detailed account of her struggle with toxic shock syndrome.
• 1984: Peter Mark Rinearson , Seattle Times, for "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
• 1985: Alice Steinbach , Baltimore Sun, for her account of a blind boy's world, "A Boy of Unusual Vision."
• 1986: John Camp , St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch , for his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression.
• 1987: Steve Twomey , Philadelphia Inquirer, for his illuminating profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier.
• 1988: Jacqui Banaszynski , St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch , for her moving series about the life and death of an AIDS victim in a rural farm community.
• 1989: David Zucchino , Philadelphia Inquirer, for his richly compelling series, "Being Black in South Africa."
• 1990: Dave Curtin , Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph , for a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home.
• 1991: Sheryl James , St. Petersburg Times (Florida) , for a compelling series about a mother who abandoned her newborn child and how it affected her life and those of others.
• 1992: Howell Raines, New York Times, for "Grady's Gift," an account of the author's childhood friendship with his family's black housekeeper and the lasting lessons of their relationship.
• 1993: George Lardner Jr. , Washington Post, for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.
• 1994: Isabel Wilkerson , New York Times, for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.
• 1995: Ron Suskind, Wall Street Journal, for his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper.
• 1996: Rick Bragg , New York Times, for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.
• 1997: Lisa Pollak , Baltimore Sun, for her compelling portrait of a baseball umpire who endured the death of a son while knowing that another son suffers from the same deadly genetic disease.
• 1998: Thomas French , St. Petersburg Times (Florida) , for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders.
• 1999: Angelo B. Henderson , Wall Street Journal, for his portrait of a druggist who is driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbery, illustrating the lasting effects of crime.
• 2000: J.R. Moehringer , Los Angeles Times, for his portrait of Gee's Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.
• 2001: Tom Hallman, Jr. , The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), for his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance.
• 2002: Barry Siegel, Los Angeles Times, for his humane and haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case.
• 2003: Sonia Nazario , Los Angeles Times, for "Enrique's Journey," her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy's perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States.
• 2004: not awarded