Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize (pronounced "PULL-it-sir") is an American award established by Joseph Pulitzer and regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash reward. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation. Ironical
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To Kill a Mockingbird
All the Light We Cannot See
The Road
The Goldfinch
Middlesex
The Color Purple
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Beloved
The Old Man and the Sea
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Grapes of Wrath
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Interpreter of Maladies
The Underground Railroad
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Kathryn Schulz
The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
Kathryn Schulz

Paul Harding
I was just thinking that I am not very many years old, but that I am a century wide. I think I have my literal age but am surrounded in a radius of years. I think that these years of days, this near century of years, is a gift from you. Thank you. Now, let me read you something to get you back to sleep.
Paul Harding, Tinkers

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