Pulitzer Stories

In my many years covering the U.S. Supreme Court, it turned out each story was a small piece of the ongoing story of the court itself.

Rita Dove’s husband shot the 1987 prize lunch at Columbia’s Low Library. See it here.

Originally, the Pulitzer Prize for a novel was to go to a book 'which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life.' This left authors like Lewis in a tough spot.

When bookstores began pulling Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" from their shelves for fear of retribution, the 14,000-circulation Riverdale Press took a stand.

Spotlight, which won the Oscar for best picture of 2015, tells the inside story of a journalistic investigation. Twelve years earlier the story itself won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service.

A yearlong internship in Kenya changes a young photojournalist's life.

In that post-Watergate epoch of fern bars and “Love Hangover,” a master columnist probes the cultural id of a country on the cusp of the Reagan Revolution.

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

An exuberant review of an exuberant tale helps a perennial runner-up win a Pulitzer Prize – and the tale wins one, too.

The 1961 Fiction winner was selected by the public from a diverse group of 100 finalists on PBS's 'The Great American Read.'