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
Yol
The Goldfinch
Middlesex
The Color Purple
Beloved
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
The Old Man and the Sea
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Grapes of Wrath
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
The Underground Railroad
Interpreter of Maladies
A Visit from the Goon Squad
“ Q: Who are your influences? I was lucky as a kid to get to meet Paul Conrad who lived in my hometown. He is a giant in editorial cartooning, winner of three Pulitzers and even more impressively he won a place on Nixon‘s enemies list. He was a huge influence. Starting out I also spent a lot of time looking at Ron Cobb, an insane crosshatcher who drew for the alternative press in the ’60’s, as well as David Levine, Ed Sorel, and R. Crumb. I also love Steinberg‘s visual elegance and innately whims ...more ”
― Matt Wuerker

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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