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Pulitzer Prize: Media

Prestigious awards in journalism, literature, and music

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The Colorful Life of The Color Purple Author Alice Walker
Alice Walker published The Color Purple in 1982. With it, she became the...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Pulitzer gold
The most coveted of the journalism Pulitzers—the Gold Medal—is awarded annually to...
© Imago—Xinhua/Alamy
Newsroom celebration
Journalists in the Cincinnati Enquirer newsroom reacting to winning a prize...
© Cara Owsley—The Enquirer/Imagn Images
Accepting the prize
Carlos Lozada accepting the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2019 from Columbia University's...
© Tracy Grant
Witness to horror
Video still from police body-camera footage of bystanders, including 17-year-old...
© Minneapolis Police Department handout/Reuters
To Kill a Mockingbird
This book cover is one of many given to Harper Lee's classic work To Kill a Mockingbird...
Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group