Why are the young going to pot?
In 1970, adults all across the country worried about kids and drugs. The Bergen County Record's William Caldwell crystallized their concerns in a powerful, prize-winning column.
From the Pulitzer files
Q&A: Photojournalist William Snyder on shooting the Olympics
Snyder has won Pulitzers for covering natural disasters, chronicling the lives of Romanian orphans and capturing athletic greatness at the Barcelona Games. He talks to Pulitzer.org about what's changed since 1992, and the challenges and opportunities for photographers in Rio.
When the birthday boy skips the party, what’s a writer to do?
Jascha Heifetz has left the building. Long live Jascha Heifetz.
‘Compassion for all things that make us human beings’
Read the Pulitzer Fiction jury's praise of 'Elbow Room,' the prize-winning book by the late James Alan McPherson.
Passion and principle in a high-stakes debate over ... poetry
A snail-mail debate gave three Pulitzer Prize-winning poets time to dig in their heels over who should win the 1967 Poetry Prize. The drama lasted right up till the final curtain.
The Pulitzer research addict
How a professor from Germany became a major chronicler of Pulitzer Prize history and tried to strike a blow for a freer press in Joseph Pulitzer’s native Hungary.
A devastating tornado unites a newsroom, and a community
Xenia Daily Gazette city reporter Rich Heiland recalls writing his prize-winning work at 3 a.m., by candlelight, in an office whose roof had blown off.
‘You’ll be successful in any field you choose’
One-handed ballplayer Jim Abbott’s message to an injured girl, and what happened next.
A Pulitzer-winning critic considers the letters of E.B. White
William McPherson figured the best way to praise the letters was to quote them.
Just one rule: The facts had to warrant the story
In the final segment of a portrait of Joseph Pulitzer, we learn that he carried no cash, rarely went to church and balked at baring his shoulder to Rodin.
