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
Bernadotte E. Schmitt
Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professorship of Modern History, 1925–46
Brent Staples
AM’76, PhD’82
Bret Stephens
AB’95
Carl Sagan
AB’54, SB’55, SM’56, PhD’60
Daniel Gilbert
AB’05
Daniel Hertzberg
AB’68
Daniel J. Boorstin
Professor in History, 1944–64; Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor, 1964–69
David Auburn
AB’91
David S. Broder
AB’47, AM’51; Washington Post
George Crumb
John Hope Franklin
Professor in History, 1964–69; Chairman, Department of History, 1967–70; John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, 1969–82
Katharine Graham
AB’38
Mark Strand
Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, 1998–present
Martyna Majok
AB’07
Michael Aronson
AB'85
Mitchell Jackson
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, 2019-2021
Philip Roth
AM’55
Rick Atkinson
AM’76
Roger Ebert
X’70; Lecturer at Graham School
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
Sebastian de Grazia
AB’44, PhD’48
Seymour M. Hersh
AB’58; Dispatch News Service, Washington, D.C.
Shulamit Ran
William H. Colvin Professor of Music, 1973–present
Studs Terkel
PhB’32, JD’34
Thornton Wilder
Lecturer, 1930–37
Trina Reynolds-Tyler
MPP'20
Tyehimba Jess
AB’91