From the Pulitzer files

The story behind Robert Frost’s fourth Pulitzer Prize.

In a tumultuous decade Pulitzer Prize jurors in Poetry found some new gems but also clung to convention.

A Pulitzer Prize juror measures the parallel lives of Samuel Johnson and Benjamin Franklin.

With the baseball season opening all around the country, we share a baseball photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.

Lois Wille, who has died at age 87, took on a taboo issue in a series that won her paper the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. Wille went on to win a second prize in Editorial Writing in 1989 while on staff at the Chicago Tribune.

Two of the three meetings between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier produced Pulitzer-winning work.

Rita Dove’s husband shot the 1987 prize lunch at Columbia’s Low Library. See it here.

In reporting from Washington, David Shribman crystallized the moment by understanding its context.

Spotlight, which won the Oscar for best picture of 2015, tells the inside story of a journalistic investigation. Twelve years earlier the story itself won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service.

An exuberant review of an exuberant tale helps a perennial runner-up win a Pulitzer Prize – and the tale wins one, too.