Pulitzer Prize

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.

Pulitzer prize

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

Example Sentences

He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1997.

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The archive consists of more than 4.5 million images primarily from Black photographers, including Ebony’s Moneta Sleet Jr., who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for an image he captured of Coretta Scott King at husband Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral.

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The former vice president worked with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks to shape the memoir, which Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp said reads “like a suspense novel.”

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The San Francisco Chronicle reporter won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for telling the grim story in exceptional journalistic detail, despite threats against his own life for doing so from some of the more savage in the throng.

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Less than three years after joining the “Post,” Oliphant received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for an illustration of Ho Chi Minh carrying the body of a dead Vietnamese man.

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