The first Pulitzer Prize for reporting
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.
Pulitzer Stories
Writings on the winners, finalists, and history of the Pulitzer Prizes
Critics don’t need to report? Think again
Plenty of tough on-the-ground reporting equipped me to become an architecture critic.
A 12½-minute celebration of 100 years of Pulitzer Prizes
Please join us for a video tour of a century of prize-winning journalism, books, plays and drama.
‘Bate the Great,’ biographer of renown
A Pulitzer Prize juror measures the parallel lives of Samuel Johnson and Benjamin Franklin.
No. 3’s poignant farewell
With the baseball season opening all around the country, we share a baseball photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
What it’s like to be black
In a project on the African-American experience, reporter Shirley J. Scott wrote: 'As an adult Negro, you live in two worlds: the white world where you make your living; the black world where you make your friends.’
A cold shoulder for Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man became a classic of American literature. While many critics recognized its quality when it came out in 1952, a Pulitzer Fiction juror went out of his way to trash the book.
Do we have the guts to do something about racial bias?
Hazel Brannon Smith’s views on civil rights evolved, and she paid a price for expressing them in her Mississippi weekly.
An honorable compromise
As arguments on marriage equality in Vermont gathered momentum, David Moats wrote a series of quiet, well-reasoned editorials that helped The Rutland Herald’s readers consider this issue.
Who are the real beneficiaries of affirmative action?
After touching a nerve, a columnist gives his critics another earful.
