Pulitzer Stories

Rita Dove’s husband shot the 1987 prize lunch at Columbia’s Low Library. See it here.

Originally, the Pulitzer Prize for a novel was to go to a book 'which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life.' This left authors like Lewis in a tough spot.

When bookstores began pulling Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" from their shelves for fear of retribution, the 14,000-circulation Riverdale Press took a stand.

Spotlight, which won the Oscar for best picture of 2015, tells the inside story of a journalistic investigation. Twelve years earlier the story itself won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service.

A yearlong internship in Kenya changes a young photojournalist's life.

In that post-Watergate epoch of fern bars and “Love Hangover,” a master columnist probes the cultural id of a country on the cusp of the Reagan Revolution.

From Twain to Frost to Thomas Wolfe, what juries had to say about Pulitzer-winning biographies.

An exuberant review of an exuberant tale helps a perennial runner-up win a Pulitzer Prize – and the tale wins one, too.

The 1961 Fiction winner was selected by the public from a diverse group of 100 finalists on PBS's 'The Great American Read.'

The St. Petersburg Times wins the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its look at Scientology's arrival in Clearwater, Fla..