Pulitzer Prizes

One of the nation’s most prestigious honors, the Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917. Named after Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the awards are based on the recommendations of a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. Prizes for Jouralism include Investigative Reporting, Explanatory Writing, Commentary, as well as National and International Reporting. Prizes for Letters include Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, and History.

Pulitzer Prize Winners

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    Bernadotte E. Schmitt

    Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professorship of Modern History, 1925–46

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    Brent Staples

    AM’76, PhD’82

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    Bret Stephens

    AB’95

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    Carl Sagan

    AB’54, SB’55, SM’56, PhD’60

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    Daniel Gilbert

    AB’05

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    Daniel Hertzberg

    AB’68

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    Daniel J. Boorstin

    Professor in History, 1944–64; Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor, 1964–69

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    David Auburn

    AB’91

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    David S. Broder

    AB’47, AM’51; Washington Post

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    George Crumb

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    John Hope Franklin

    Professor in History, 1964–69; Chairman, Department of History, 1967–70; John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, 1969–82

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    Katharine Graham

    AB’38

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    Mark Strand

    Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, 1998–present

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    Martyna Majok

    AB’07

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    Michael Aronson

    AB'85

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    Mitchell Jackson

    Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, 2019-2021

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    Philip Roth

    AM’55

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    Rick Atkinson

    AM’76

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    Roger Ebert

    X’70; Lecturer at Graham School

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    Saul Bellow

    X’39; Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of English, 1962–93; Chairman of the Committee on Social Thought, 1970–76

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    Sebastian de Grazia

    AB’44, PhD’48

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    Seymour M. Hersh

    AB’58; Dispatch News Service, Washington, D.C.

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    Shulamit Ran

    William H. Colvin Professor of Music, 1973–present

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    Studs Terkel

    PhB’32, JD’34

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    Thornton Wilder

    Lecturer, 1930–37

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    Tyehimba Jess

    AB’91