Pulitzer Stories

Years before the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote about the risks of keeping troops on the ground, and the policy implications of leaving.

As the United States observes Memorial Day, revisit New York Times correspondent Hanson W. Baldwin's Pulitzer-winning reporting on key World War II battles, including Guadalcanal.

The work that won the New York Tribune the first Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing was published in 1915. Writing on the anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania, Frank H. Simonds described the 'wanton murder' of 1,198 passengers — including 128 Americans.

Annette Gordon-Reed shares the story of writing her first 'book' — at age 7 — and tells readers how youthful enthusiasm grew into a Pulitzer-winning biography

As the jury chair pointed out, his two fellow jurors knew one of the contending authors rather too well.

As late as 1970, the specter of de facto segregation loomed large in Florida's Alachua County — home to a major public university. The plainspoken earnestness of Buddy Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials, including this one, helped turn the tide.

Debate over Thornton Wilder's first Pulitzer Prize, for 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' in 1928, stretched the standards by which jurors measured novels.

Yielding to the 'urge for going’ was critical in shaping a literary life.

It took a while, but Michael Shaara found his subject – and his A game.

Mary Lou Werner, who mentored journalists from Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post to conservative columnist Cal Thomas, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for her coverage of Virginia's school integration crisis