When the birthday boy skips the party, what’s a writer to do?
Jascha Heifetz has left the building. Long live Jascha Heifetz.
Pulitzer Stories
Writings on the winners, finalists, and history of the Pulitzer Prizes
What Gerald R. Ford did for his country
Meg Greenfield of The Washington Post eats crow and wins a Pulitzer.
The magic of words
Leonard Pitts Jr. has called himself a writer since age 5 — when he told gripping tales about the adventures of a boy superhero, coincidentally named Leonard, too.
'A new and spectacular hate organization'
1947 Pulitzer winner Edward Folliard chronicled an American pro-Nazi group, the Columbians, in Atlanta. Following the events in Charlottesville, VA., this is a reminder of the role of the press in covering similar events of 71 years ago.
Passion and principle in a high-stakes debate over ... poetry
A snail-mail debate gave three Pulitzer Prize-winning poets time to dig in their heels over who should win the 1967 Poetry Prize. The drama lasted right up till the final curtain.
Remembering Stanley Kunitz
The prize-winning poet was born on this day in 1905. A hundred years later, he was still writing and publishing poetry. Listen to him read some of his work.
‘Compassion for all things that make us human beings’
Read the Pulitzer Fiction jury's praise of 'Elbow Room,' the prize-winning book by the late James Alan McPherson.
From the White House, a regime of secrecy
Over half a century before the age of Snowden, an article from Nat S. Finney's 1948 Prize-winning entry offers a fascinating glimpse into the initial gestation of a permanent 'security blanket modeled after wartime military security.'
The Pulitzer research addict
How a professor from Germany became a major chronicler of Pulitzer Prize history and tried to strike a blow for a freer press in Joseph Pulitzer’s native Hungary.
‘And then the fire escape let go’
Before Stanley Forman’s first Pulitzer Prize was announced, he’d already taken the picture that won his second.
