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She said she once had a patient who won a Pulitzer Prize, then immediately sank into a deep depression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
From her work on that groundbreaking assemblage emerged the idea for “Beloved,” which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Janet was part of a team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for the “Medicare Unmasked” series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
I’ve done well in my career, but within a couple of blocks of my home are two Pulitzer Prize winners.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
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 Butler, Ellis Parker
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