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| | Pulitzer Prizes on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. They have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of an advisory board comprising journalists, the president of the university, with the dean of the graduate school of journalism as secretary. |
 | | The prizes in letters, of $5,000 each, are for fiction, nonfiction, drama, history, biography, and poetry; works with American themes are preferred. |
 | | Pulitzer directed that the winners "study social, political, and moral conditions of the people and the character and principles of the foreign press." |
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