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The book won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted by Barry Jenkins into a limited series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The two best plays I saw last year, Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Purpose,” back-to-back winners of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, are part of the Geffen Playhouse’s unmissable next season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Dave has contributed to WSJ newsroom projects recognized by a Pulitzer Prize, Society for News Design awards and a Gerald Loeb award.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein’s network and his 50th birthday book was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and helped provoke the release of millions of Justice Department documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Cats: The Jellicle Ball took home three trophies, while feminism epic Liberation won best play after recently winning the Pulitzer prize for drama.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
In 2003, he was part of a Journal team that won a Pulitzer prize for a series on corporate corruption, and is a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism's highest honor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
I wanna talk to you about the Pulitzer prize, bro.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2022
“Bernardini allegedly impersonated publishing industry individuals in order to have authors, including a Pulitzer prize winner, send him prepublication manuscripts for his own benefit,” Williams said in the statement.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
No doubt with time and care I could decipher this bid for next year's Pulitzer prize.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
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