From the Pulitzer files

From Pulitzer’s World to the muckraking era and far beyond, reporters often got the goods through guile and guise

The idea for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play first occurred to Thornton Wilder during a visit to Rome. Eighteen years later, “Our Town” opened in Princeton.

On his way to the prize, a movie critic takes on an issue of his time: Women’s Lib

This is the second part of chapter one of the new edition of 'Pulitzer's Gold.' The Columbia University Press is publishing the book this month, as the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes begins.

With the cooperation of Roy Harris, we share the first chapter of 'Pulitzer’s Gold,' out in a new edition this month. It recounts two Public Service prizes for diverse topics: a Florida newspaper’s exposé on speeding police officers and reports on secret surveillance by the National Security Agency.

Although he wrote it during the holiday season, a deeply personal editorial in the portfolio that won a Pulitzer Prize for Michael Gartner seems especially appropriate for Fathers Day weekend.

Sydney Schanberg of The New York Times stayed in Cambodia after the fall of its capital to the Khmer Rouge. Read one of his prize-winning dispatches from the conflict, published May 9, 1975.

New York Times reporters and married couple Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn shared the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 1990. 'They got it right,' said the jury that judged their entry, which included this piece that ran June 4, 1989.

Year after year, most book juries emerge from many months of heavy reading to give the Pulitzer Prize Board good choices. Take this one, for example.

On the 50th anniversary of the prizes, three-time Pulitzer-winner Robert Penn Warren spoke on trends in fiction with an eye to the future: 'The novel may even leave the printed page — if the age of Gutenberg is really over — but it could still be a novel.'