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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.
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]
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 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.
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.
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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]
The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of seven Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually in Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first given in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year, and this was eventually converted into a prize: "For a distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States ...