Introduction
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a U.S. $15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017).
Winners
Journalism:
Letters, Drama and Music:
| Category | Winners |
|---|---|
| Public Service | The New York Times, for reporting led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and The New Yorker, for reporting by Ronan Farrow |
| Breaking News Reporting | Staff of The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif. |
| Investigative Reporting | Staff of The Washington Post |
| Explanatory Reporting | Staffs of The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network |
| Local Reporting | The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff |
| National Reporting | Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post |
| International Reporting | Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato of Reuters |
| Feature Writing | Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, GQ |
| Commentary | John Archibald of Alabama Media Group, Birmingham, Ala. |
| Criticism | Jerry Saltz of New York magazine |
| Editorial Writing | Andie Dominick of The Des Moines Register |
| Editorial Cartooning | Jake Halpern, freelance writer, and Michael Sloan, freelance cartoonist, The New York Times |
| Breaking News Photography | Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va. |
| Feature Photography | Photography Staff of Reuters |
| Category | Winners |
|---|---|
| Fiction | Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company) |
| Drama | Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok |
| History | The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis (Liveright/W.W. Norton) |
| Biography | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books) |
| Poetry | Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| General Non-fiction | Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| Music | DAMN., by Kendrick Lamar |