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Sonia’s Pulitzer Prize Essay – 2016
The Pulitzer Prizes recently celebrated their centennial. I was asked, as part of marking the celebration, to write about how winning the award changed me. Readers pushed me to suggest solutions to the problems I describe, and to show them how they can best bring positive change. Read my essay, which was included in a book handed out at the Pulitzer centennial dinner.
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Award-winning newspaper series
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