‘Massive resistance’ rocks Virginia
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
Pulitzer Stories
Writings on the winners, finalists, and history of the Pulitzer Prizes
‘A moral necessity in a society marked by power’
Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was born the year the first Pulitzers were awarded and won his second prize during their 50th anniversary. He spoke at a gala that year about the rebirth of his discipline.
Going with the flow in the Haight
The craving for immediacy and spiritual diversion in the ’60s started a Pulitzer-winning poet on his way.
Poets of the ’60s, established and new
In a tumultuous decade Pulitzer Prize jurors in Poetry found some new gems but also clung to convention.
133 million tons of aerial garbage
Less than a year before the first Earth Day, a venerable correspondent ruminates on the looming ecological crisis.
Life with the Pulitzers
A father’s stories of Pulitzer glory inspire a son’s mission to chronicle 100 years of Public Service Prizes.
2016 Pulitzer Prizes
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at 3pm eastern time, April 18th. Winning stories, photographs and cartoons, along with bios and photos of all the winners are here.
