A belated congratulations to the winners of the Pulitzer Prize. A few interesting facts about the Pulitzer: • Its pronounced Pull-it-sir, not Pyoo-lit-sir. • The selection process is divided into two stages. A three-person jury of peers—different each year and working for *very* little compensation—compiles an unranked list of three finalists. That list goes to the permanent Pulitzer board, which votes on the winners in each category. • The winners and finalists are all announced publicly at the same time. Its a real shock for the winners—a mid-day surprise. The certificates are handed out a month later at a business-attire luncheon at Columbia University. • Its proper to say a runner-up is a finalist for Pulitzer, not that she or he was nominated for it. Hundreds of books get nominated for the Pulitzer in each category. That gets narrowed down to one winner and two finalists. • No one gets the famous Pulitzer gold medal. That only goes to the public-service journalism winner, and it goes to the publication, not the individual writer. But there is a $10,000 check for the winners. Which is about what it costs these days to fly your family to New York and put them up for a couple of nights. Seriously, when you write for a living, that check is very welcome. If your book sales go up, the royalty income wont work its way through the pipeline for another year.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:09:06 +0000
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