Pulitzer Stories

Maverick editor-publisher Bill Dorvillier denounces attempted political malfeasance by the Roman Catholic Church in Puerto Rico — and wins a Pulitzer Prize.

In 1970, adults all across the country worried about kids and drugs. The Bergen County Record's William Caldwell crystallized their concerns in a powerful, prize-winning column.

Typical Ernie Pyle: ‘For once we have enough of something and at the right time.’

Snyder has won Pulitzers for covering natural disasters, chronicling the lives of Romanian orphans and capturing athletic greatness at the Barcelona Games. He talks to Pulitzer.org about what's changed since 1992, and the challenges and opportunities for photographers in Rio.

2001 Poetry winner Stephen Dunn died on June 24 at the age of 82. In 2016, he wrote about his influences in this reminiscence for the Pulitzer Prize centennial.

In 1966, at the prizes' 50th anniversary banquet, the three-time Pulitzer winner spoke on what the honor means to a writer

In 1925, the contest for the fiction (then novel) Pulitzer was tense. Edna Ferber's 'So Big' was declared the winner, but one juror was so infuriated with the result that he sent back his honorarium.

An author reflects on how Birmingham became the Gettysburg of the Civil Rights Movement.

In his crusade against lynching, Louis Isaac Jaffe wasn’t satisfied with a victory in his own state.

Xenia Daily Gazette city reporter Rich Heiland recalls writing his prize-winning work at 3 a.m., by candlelight, in an office whose roof had blown off.