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Stephen Engelberg and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, co-chairs

Pulitzer Prize Board Updates 2021 Drama Prize Eligibility

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Due to the COVID pandemic’s effects on the performing arts, requirements for consideration for 2021 Prize in Drama have been altered to accommodate the challenges faced by playwrights and theaters in producing new works this year.

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October 1: Deadline To Submit Books for 2021 Pulitzer Consideration

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For consideration in the 2021 Fiction, Poetry, Biography, Nonfiction and History Prize categories, please submit eligible work online by October 1, 2020. This year, all entries must be sent as ebooks. Read below for full details.

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Carlos Lozada

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Associate Editor and Nonfiction Book Critic
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Carlos
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Lozada
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Carlos Lozada is the nonfiction book critic of The Washington Post. He has also served as The Post's economics editor, national security editor and Outlook editor. He received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle's citation for excellence in reviewing. Previously, he was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University.

Lozada joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2019.

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The Washington Post
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David Remnick

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Editor and Staff Writer
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David
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Remnick

David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. He has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Bruce Springsteen, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, Benjamin Netanyahu, Leonard Cohen, and Mavis Staples. He also serves as the host of the magazine’s national radio program and podcast, “The New Yorker Radio Hour.”

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The New Yorker
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Nicole Carroll

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Editor in Chief
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Nicole
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Carroll
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McLean, VA

Nicole Carroll is Editor in Chief of USA TODAY. She was named to her current position in March 2018. Prior to that, she served as Vice President/News and Editor of The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.

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USA Today
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Katherine Boo

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author and journalist
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Katherine
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Boo
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Washington, DC
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Katherine Boo, a former staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, was a reporter at The Washington Post when her series on mistreatment of mentally challenged people in Washington, DC, resulted in the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Post. The Pulitzer citation praised her work for exposing "wretched neglect and abuse in the city’s group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms."

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Elizabeth Alexander

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President
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Elizabeth
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Alexander
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New York, NY

The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’s next President, effective March 2018. Alexander will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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