Megan Marshall's book on the Peabody sisters was a Pulitzer finalist. The next, on Margaret Fuller, won the prize. Now she's working on a biography of Elizabeth Bishop. Does that make Marshall a 'cultural,' 'feminist' or 'literary' biographer? She has her doubts.
After winning the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 24 shows have gone on to win the Tony for Best Play or Best Musical. Watch video highlights of the double honorees, with writers like Arthur Miller, performers like Daniel Radcliffe and James Earl Jones, and Broadway classics like 'A Chorus Line.'
Learn about the Native New Yorker's first Pulitzer win, in 1920 at age 31.
How a Pulitzer traveling fellowship prepared young reporter Kathleen Kingsbury for the work that would one day win her a Pulitzer Prize.
After the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal broke, Maureen Dowd latched on to the story and wouldn’t let go.
Columnist Paul Gigot writes after the acquittal of Bill Clinton that the task of political persuasion is never done.
The Boston Globe columnist, whose work was syndicated by 450 papers, brought insight to everything from JFK's death to Eleanor Roosevelt's sex life.
David S. Broder chronicles Humphrey’s 'reckless love affair with his country' in a column published 44 years ago this week.
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
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. DuBois, she 'had the eye and the ear to see beauty and know truth'
