‘And then the fire escape let go’
Before Stanley Forman’s first Pulitzer Prize was announced, he’d already taken the picture that won his second.
Pulitzer Stories
Writings on the winners, finalists, and history of the Pulitzer Prizes
Hemingway: Henry Allen on the pictures and the man
Allen, a writer who knew how to craft a lead, puts an American icon in perspective.
‘You’ll be successful in any field you choose’
One-handed ballplayer Jim Abbott’s message to an injured girl, and what happened next.
The enduring glory of a potato taco
Hungry in Los Angeles? Look no further than this Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Gold’s work.
The fall of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
On this day in 1979, Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq. Here, read two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Shadid's telling of how the regime fell 24 years later.
For once the Soviets are talking sense
A 1950s-era editorial in the Des Moines Register argued for sharing Iowa agricultural know-how with none other than Nikita Kurshchev.
Miami’s nonpareil police reporter
When it came to people killing people, Edna Buchanan had heard it all. Here she tells an interviewer how she covered the 1979 police killing of an African-American man. The verdict in the case caused deadly riots.
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.
'I’ve come to think of my process as the four legs of a table'
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss shares his surefire method for getting the story right.
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.
