Who Tells These Stories?

The last section of the exhibition celebrates Pulitzer Prize winners -- the journalists, authors, dramatists and composers whose revelatory work portrays our shared experiences, examines critical times and expands our understanding of one another.

Here are the prize-winners featured in Who Tells These Stories? 

  • Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today, 2024 Local Reporting
  • Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal, 2017 Commentary
  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1975 Criticism
  • Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, 1985 Drama for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Eli Saslow, 2023 Feature Writing and 2014 Explanatory Writing
  • Jhumpa Lahiri, 2000 Fiction for Interpreter of Maladies
  • Tania León, 2021 Music for Stride
  • Tennessee Williams, 1948 Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire and 1955 Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Edith Wharton, 1921 Novel for The Age of Innocence
  • Ann Telnaes, The Washington Post, 2025 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary and 2001 Editorial Cartooning
  • Hazel Brannon Smith, Lexington Advertiser (Mississippi), 1964 Editorial Writing
  • Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker, 2024 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
  • Garry Trudeau, Universal Press Syndicate, 1975 Editorial Cartooning
  • Colson Whitehead, 2017 Fiction for The Underground Railroad and 2020 Fiction for The Nickel Boys
  • John F. Kennedy, 1957 Biography for Profiles in Courage
  • Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 2023 Explanatory Reporting
  • Louise Erdrich, 2021 Fiction for The Night Watchman
  • Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 2021 Explanatory Reporting
  • Harold Jackson, Ron Casey and Joey Kennedy, The Birmingham News (Alabama), 1991 Editorial Writing
  • Isabel Wilkerson, The New York Times, 1994 Feature Writing
  • Sanaz Toossi, 2023 Drama for English
  • Ron Olshwanger, contributor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1989 Spot News Photography

  • Mitchell S. Jackson, freelance contributor, Runner’s World, 2021 Feature Writing

     

  • Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post, 2004 International Reporting
  • Seymour M. Hersh, Dispatch News Service, 1970 International Reporting
  • Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950 Poetry for Annie Allen
  • M. Gessen, The New York Times, 2026 Opinion Writing
  • Melinda Henneberger, The Kansas City Star, 2022 Commentary

  • Michel du Cille, 2008 Public Service at The Washington Post, 1988 Feature Photography and 1986 Spot News Photography at The Miami Herald

     

Read about the Pulitzer on the Road Exhibition here.