From the Pulitzer files

Excerpts from Pulitzer jury reports, including those on Margaret Fuller: A New American Life and Angela's Ashes, show the fascinating questions that arise in evaluating such work.

The New York Herald Tribune reporter covered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima — and went on to cover Korea and Vietnam as well

Some of the details may sound quaint today, but the story conveys the chilling disregard for human life that set the tone for the century to come.

Walter Kerr reviewed Zero Mostel's performance as Tevye in 'Fiddler on the Roof' — the first musical to surpass 3,000 performances on Broadway — despite being 'sorely tempted to pronounce Zero Mostel simply unreviewable'

Mary Lou Werner, who mentored journalists from Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post to conservative columnist Cal Thomas, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for her coverage of Virginia's school integration crisis

From Twain to Frost to Thomas Wolfe, what juries had to say about Pulitzer-winning biographies.

As the United States observes Memorial Day, revisit New York Times correspondent Hanson W. Baldwin's Pulitzer-winning reporting on key World War II battles, including Guadalcanal.

In 1925, the contest for the fiction (then novel) Pulitzer was tense. Edna Ferber's 'So Big' was declared the winner, but one juror was so infuriated with the result that he sent back his honorarium.

As late as 1970, the specter of de facto segregation loomed large in Florida's Alachua County — home to a major public university. The plainspoken earnestness of Buddy Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials, including this one, helped turn the tide.

Debate over Thornton Wilder's first Pulitzer Prize, for 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' in 1928, stretched the standards by which jurors measured novels.