Pulitzer Prize

American  

noun

1. one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc., established by Joseph Pulitzer: administered by Columbia University; first awarded 1917.

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Pulitzer prize British  

noun

1. one of a group of prizes established by Joseph Pulitzer and awarded yearly since 1917 for excellence in American journalism, literature, and music

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Example Sentences

A Pulitzer Prize winner for “Between Riverside and Crazy,” he writes punchy dialogue and specializes in characters scraping by on the margins of New York life.

From The Wall Street Journal

Vauhini Vara, is a tech journalist and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist of “The Immortal King Rao,” who spent several years with Mahajan at Stanford as his classmate.

From Los Angeles Times

One of the bestselling novels of the era was “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck, a tale of Chinese village life that won the Pulitzer Prize and helped Buck win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1938.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dana was part of a WSJ team that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for coverage of Elon Musk.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for its investigation into Amazon, and was the winner of the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal