From the Pulitzer files

A columnist argues that on America’s challenges, slow and steady wins the race.

The St. Petersburg Times wins the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its look at Scientology's arrival in Clearwater, Fla..

A transplant from Great Britain wins the hearts and minds of Pulitzer juries.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mary Schmich finds a tender story close to home.

Sent to India to cover the fate of the British Empire after World War II, Price Day landed an interview that helped him win the Pulitzer Prize.

Mary McGrory’s columns were must-reads in the capital and all across the country.

A critic interviews a faithful concert-goer who knows music much better than she thinks she does

The celebrated columnist chronicles a Chicago newcomer’s initiation rite.

In celebration of the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes, Emily Rauh Pulitzer has lent John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Joseph Pulitzer to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The portrait, from her private collection, will be exhibited at the Newseum from Jan. 28, 2016, through Jan. 15, 2017. Here is the story of how the painting was made.

Read Rosenthal’s own story about his picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi — perhaps the best-known Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.