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The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2019 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were initially scheduled to be announced by Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy on April 20, 2020, but were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and instead announced by Canedy in a video presentation on May 4, 2020.
Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2020-2024 [3] Year Author Title Result Ref. 2020: W. Caleb McDaniel: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America: Winner [35] [36] [37] Greg Grandin: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America: Finalist [35] Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Post has won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for Public Service, the most prestigious of the awards, on six occasions. In 2008, the Post won a record six prizes in a single year, the most of any year for the newspaper. The Pulitzer Prize is a prize awarded within the United States for excellence in journalism in a range of categories.
The Pulitzer Prize Board generally selects the Pulitzer Prize Winners from the three nominated finalists in each category. The names of nominated finalists have been announced only since 1980. Work that has been submitted for Prize consideration but not chosen as either a nominated finalist or a winner is termed an entry or submission.
The Washington Post has won 65 Pulitzer Prizes [1] in journalism, the second highest of any newspaper or magazine in the United States. It has won the gold medal for Public Service, the most distinguished award, [2] six times. The newspaper won its first prize in 1936 for Editorial Writing and its most recent in 2022. [3]
As defined in the original Plan of Award, the prize was given "Annually, for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood," although there was some struggle over whether the word wholesome should be used instead of whole, the word Pulitzer had written in his will. [3]
American poet Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize four times from 1924 to 1943. William Allen White received the Pulitzer Prize twice but in two different categories: Journalism in 1923 for an editorial writing and posthumously in 1947 in the category Books, Drama, and Music for his autobiography.
These books have been recognized by the American Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, awarded since 1962 for a distinguished work of nonfiction by an American writer that is not eligible in another category. For biographies of the prize-winning writers, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners.