Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize (plural Pulitzer Prizes)
An annual American award given for journalism, literature, and music
She won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on health care.
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Each was made into a successful film: Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The King and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959).
Andrew Jackson's Battle with the "Money Power" (1958) ch 8, of his Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War (1954); Pulitzer prize.
Barnett, pp. 107–08 Talley's Folly was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980 and received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Play.
Coltrane was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2007 citing his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz."
Criticism and studies Some critics of the Pulitzer Prize have accused the organization of favoring those who support liberal causes or oppose conservative causes.
Documents released under the FOIA show that the FBI tracked the late David Halberstam —a Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist and author—for more than two decades.