Pulitzer Prize
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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 prizenounone 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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Strout, a former Pulitzer Prize winner and double Booker nominee, tells the story of a high school history teacher in his 50s who feels adrift in modern America.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
As an embarrassingly large number of readers often remind me, I own the Pulitzer Prize for Pitiful Prognostication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
In 2014, he won a Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for an investigation into abusive landlords and squalid conditions in publicly subsidized housing for Tampa’s homeless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Pulitzer Prize finalist Oates, like Orlean, is also team Nolan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
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
Pulitzer prize winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division as it cuts about 15% of its entire staff.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
I wanna talk to you about the Pulitzer prize, bro.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2022
US attorney Damian Williams said Bernardini "allegedly impersonated publishing industry individuals in order to have authors, including a Pulitzer prize winner, send him prepublication manuscripts for his own benefit".
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022
I'll never get the Pulitzer prize for the best novel or for the best play, but if there was a Pulitzer prize for the greatest human goat nobody else would be in the running.
From Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler
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