In 2008, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to Junot Díaz for his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." The Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to Tracy Letts for his play "August: Osage County."
The Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism in 2004:
Breaking News: LA Times Staff
National Reporting: LA Times Staff
Criticism: Dan Neil
Editorial Writing: Matt Davies
Feature Photography: Carolyn Cole
The New York Times has won the most Pulitzer Prizes by far, at 109, including the five received in 2011. The newspaper with the second best record is The Washington Post, with 57; the Los Angeles Times, with 39; and the Wall Street Journal, with 34. The Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe and Miami Herald have also won a respectable number of Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. The Associated Press, which is not a newspaper but a news service, has won 49 Pulitzers since 1917, mostly for photography.
[Count includes all Journalism award categories including editorial Cartoons, photography and Public Service.]
Letters, Drama, and Music
Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Drama: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
History: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
Biography or Autobiography: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
Poetry: Time and Materials by Robert Hass
Poetry: Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
General Nonfiction: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer
Music: The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang
Special Citations
Bob Dylan
Journalism
Public Service: The Washington Post
Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Washington Post
Investigative Reporting: Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times and the staff of Chicago Tribune
Explanatory Reporting: Amy Harmon of The New York Times
Local Reporting: David Umhoefer of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
National Reporting: Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post
International Reporting: Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post
Feature Writing: Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post
Commentary: Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post
Criticism: Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing: No award
Editorial Cartooning: Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily
Breaking News Photography: Adrees Latif of Reuters
Feature Photography: Preston Gannaway of Concord Monitor
Nigel Jaquis of the Portland, Oregon, weekly Willamette Week, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for revealing a former Governor's past sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl.
The Associated Press (aka AP), which is not a newspaper but a "wire service," or news bureau, that supplies articles and photographs for publication in newspapers. Most of the AP's awards were for photography; the majority of their wins were prior to 1990.
CNN has won a total of 11 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2021.
In 2007, The New York Times staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their coverage of the governmentβs warrantless wiretapping program. In 2008, The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its coverage of Vice President Dick Cheney.
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The New York Times has won the most Pulitzer Prizes by far, at 109, including the five received in 2011. The newspaper with the second best record is The Washington Post, with 57 awards.
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African-American playwright August Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Wilson's play, Fences, won the Prize in 1987; another of his plays, The Piano Lesson, won in 1990.
No. There is no single individual who won 49 Pulitzer Prizes, but some newspapers and news organizations have accumulated many for journalism categories over the years.The Associated Press (aka AP), which is not a newspaper but a "wire service" (or news bureau) that supplies articles and photographs to newspapers won 49 Pulitzer Prizes. Most of the their awards were for photography or photojournalism, and the majority of their wins were prior to 1990.The New York Times has an impressive record of 109 wins since 1917, the greatest number of Pulitzer Prizes won by one organization, as of 2011.
He won two Pulitzer Prizes. (awards for books)
The Los Angeles Times has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism, including six prestigious Public Service Awards in 2011, 2005, 1984, 1969, 1960, and 1942.
Maya Angelou won four Pulitzer Prizes and was the first person to read a poem at a U.S. Presidential inauguration.
There is no formal limit to the number of times a person (or news organization) can win a Pulitzer Prize. Robert Frost won four times for his poetry; The New York Times won 109 times for Journalism.
He won two Pulitzer Prizes. (awards for books)