By Heather Grossmann
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — The Broadway hit “Next to Normal” earned a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for best play of the year, while several awards were doled out to the usual suspects, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The offbeat musical "Next to Normal" has been on Broadway for a year and already had three Tony Awards to its credit, including Best Musical Score. However, it failed to win the coveted Tony for Best Musical, losing out to "Billy Elliot" last June.
Not on the list of Pulitzer Prize winners Monday was the National Enquirer, who submitted their work on the John Edwards sex scandal for consideration.
ProPublica was the first online-only, non-profit to win journalism's most prestiguous award for a joint investigative project it did with the New York Times Magazine on “the urgent life-and-death decisions" doctors made in New Orleans when they were cut off by the waters of Hurricane Katrina.
The International Reporting Pulitzer went to Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post, for his series on Iraq’s struggle to create a future for itself.
The National Reporting award went to Matt Richtel and the New York Times staff for their reporting on the hazards of using mobile devices while driving.
The public service awards went to Bristol Herald Courier of VA for their story on energy companies cheating landowners out of royalties on natural gas drilling,
Mary Chind of the Des Moines Register won in the breaking news photography category for her dramatic photograph of a rescuer attempting to save a drowning woman trapped beneath a dam.
The Feature Writing award went to Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post for his reporting on parents who were responsible for their children’s deaths because they accidentally left them in cars.
Paul Harding won the Pulizter for his work of fiction, "Tinkers."
For a complete list of the winners, please visit the Pulitzer Awards Web site.
