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Pulitzer Prize

• How much does a Pulitzer affect book sales?

  Husna Haq of The Christian Science Monitor tracked sales for the 2013 winners just two weeks after the Pulitzer Prize was announced. The result? Money has not fallen from the… Read more »

• 7 books that should win the Pulitzer for fiction this year

  The Pulitzer Prizes will be announced today, and after last year’s absurd refusal to award the prize for fiction, the engine of anticipation is running hot. With that in mind,… Read more »

• New study says women may need connections to win a Pulitzer

  A new study by two academics zooms in on the biographies of the Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism from 1917 to 2010 and finds that the majority of female “winners… Read more »

• Pinch Pulitzer goes to David Foster Wallace

  When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction last month, independent bookstores were frustrated at the lack of a winner, which would usually give them… Read more »

• The Pulitzer Prize, take two

  Since the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction in 2011 last month, the New York Times invited eight literary experts to pick their winners for the… Read more »

• Pulitzer jurors shocked by board’s decision

  A point of clarification after yesterday’s post about the decision not to award anybody with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year: it was the Pulitzer Board that decided not… Read more »

• No Pulitzer Prize for fiction

  The Pulitzer Prizes were given out on Monday, with awards going to the Philadelphia Inquirer for public service in journalism, The Stranger’s Eli Sanders for feature writing, and the late Manning Marable’s… 1 / Read more »