From the Pulitzer files

In this second part of an intimate portrait of Joseph Pulitzer, we learn of his personal code, his legion of secretaries and his acute aversion to sound and smell.

In this first of three excerpts from the memories of a man who knew Joseph Pulitzer well, the publisher emerges as a man of enormous impulses.

The late Jack Fuller took advantage of his legal training in writing editorials that won a Pulitzer Prize.

Allen, a writer who knew how to craft a lead, puts an American icon in perspective.

Wharton was the first woman to win the Novel Prize (the predecessor to today's Fiction Prize) for her 1920 book. The author's reaction to her Prize? 'I confess I did despair ...'

Following the King of Pop's death in 2009 at age 50, Pulitzer-winning dance critic Sarah Kaufman explored his signature move and what it said about him.

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.

Columnist Paul Gigot writes after the acquittal of Bill Clinton that the task of political persuasion is never done.

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'

It took a while, but Michael Shaara found his subject – and his A game.