Our self-righteousness is undiminished
Fifty years ago, New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer winner James Reston reflected on the future of journalism during a banquet celebrating the prizes' semicentennial
Pulitzer Stories
Writings on the winners, finalists, and history of the Pulitzer Prizes
Michiko Kakutani on Philip Roth’s 'American Pastoral'
The Times critic praises Roth’s ambition and its fulfillment in the novel that at last won him the Pulitzer Prize. Coincidentally, she won one, too.
Why the Pulitzers are not the Oscars
Pulitzer family correspondence shows robust debate about how to keep the prizes healthy.
Sophomore jitters
After her book contract was canceled, Debby Applegate found inspiration in Pulitzer-winning biographies — then took home a prize of her own.
‘Anonymous’ no more
How the winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography finally got his due.
‘It’s time to stop averting our eyes’
Writers argue that striking the right balance is the key to better lives for people with mental illnesses.
The lunacy of ideology, scourge of our times
Longtime New York Times correspondent John Burns won two Pulitzer Prizes: one for his coverage of Bosnia-Herzegovina and another for his reporting on 'the harrowing regime imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban.'
Where the Pulitzer Prizes began
For a centennial Campfire event, a historian and a biographer return to the Maine town where Pulitzer had the big idea.
Sputnik should wake us to our failings
Walter Lippmann's provocative musings on the state of American society following the Soviet triumph of Sputnik-1 and the Little Rock desegregation crisis earned the distinguished columnist a rare Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1958.
The man who wrote 'Andersonville'
On the eve of publication of The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived, its author reflects on Pulitzer Prize glory and the fleeting nature of fame.
