Pulitzer Stories

A slideshow of images from our Centennial Kickoff events at Newseum and The Washington Post headquarters in Washington, D.C.

A critic interviews a faithful concert-goer who knows music much better than she thinks she does

On the 50th anniversary of the prizes, three-time Pulitzer-winner Robert Penn Warren spoke on trends in fiction with an eye to the future: 'The novel may even leave the printed page — if the age of Gutenberg is really over — but it could still be a novel.'

In celebration of the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes, Emily Rauh Pulitzer has lent John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Joseph Pulitzer to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The portrait, from her private collection, will be exhibited at the Newseum from Jan. 28, 2016, through Jan. 15, 2017. Here is the story of how the painting was made.

'I can’t help but experience Obama’s election as a gesture of recognition and acceptance — which is patently absurd, if you think about it,' Pulitzer-winning columnist Eugene Robinson wrote shortly after the 44th president's election

Read Rosenthal’s own story about his picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi — perhaps the best-known Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

The idea for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play first occurred to Thornton Wilder during a visit to Rome. Eighteen years later, “Our Town” opened in Princeton.

The celebrated columnist chronicles a Chicago newcomer’s initiation rite.

Walter Kerr reviewed Zero Mostel's performance as Tevye in 'Fiddler on the Roof' — the first musical to surpass 3,000 performances on Broadway — despite being 'sorely tempted to pronounce Zero Mostel simply unreviewable'

From Pulitzer’s World to the muckraking era and far beyond, reporters often got the goods through guile and guise