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Pulitzer Stories

Writings on the winners, finalists, and history of the Pulitzer Prizes

Q&A: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music Ellen Reid

Reid's prize-winning opera "p r i s m" makes its digital debut today. She told the Pulitzers: "Through music we can experience things more deeply. It’s almost like the boundaries between us fall away, and the boundaries between the audience and the characters fall away, then we’re all a little closer to understanding lives that aren’t our own."

William Safire's Would-Be Apollo 11 Eulogy

The 1978 Commentary winner and former Pulitzer Prize Board member drafted an address that would have been delivered by President Nixon if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had been marooned on the moon.