Janet Cooke's article, "Jimmy's World," is retained in The Washington Post archives, and is available at the Related Link, below.
Edward P. Jones won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Known World.
John F. Kennedy won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book Profiles in Courage.
No, unfortunately, Langston Hughes never won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. Author Arnold Rampersand was a 1989 Pulitzer Finalist for his biography of Hughes, however: The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World.
According to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Paul Harding's novel, Tinkers, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction because they considered it "a powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality."
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, left instructions for establishing the Pulitzer Prize to recognize excellence in Journalism and in Letters, Drama and Music in his will, but the founding committee was not organized until after his death. The first awards were presented in 1917.
Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. The iconic image was captured on February 23, 1945.
Carlos P. Romulo, who became President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1949, was the first Filipino to win a Pulitzer Prize. Romulo was awarded the 1942 Pulitzer for Correspondence (now called International Reporting) while working as a reporter for the Philippines Herald for "his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia."
There are several: the Nobel, the Bookman, the Pulitzer. They are all prestigious. The Nobel is an international award. The Bookman is British. The Pulitzer is American, as is the National Book Award.
The Pulitzer Prizes (plural) were first awarded in 1917, the result of a bequest from Joseph Pulitzer's estate. Although four Prizes were given that year, Herbert Bayard Swope, a reporter for New York World, received the first Pulitzer for his extended series entitled "Inside the German Empire."
Joseph Pulitzer was a powerful newspaper publisher known for creating yellow journalism through his newspaper, the New York World. He later established the Pulitzer Prize, which recognizes excellence in journalism and other fields.
Thomas L. Friedman is a opinion columnist at the New York Times. His is also a Pulitzer Prize winning author, and wrote a column about the 911 use of planes to crash into the World Trade Center towers.
Pulitzer offers Jack his job back at the World newspaper and promises him a promotion to a respectable newsbeat.