DuVernay is the first director, writer and producer to earn the honor, which recognizes "lifetime contributions embodying American ideas and ideals" ...

Denzel Washington is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time. The 70-year-old Hollywood icon has also been called a sex symbol throughout ...

Leonard Edward Read, “I, Pencil’s” author, was born on September 26, 1898, in Hubbardston, Michigan — a town of just 300 people, less than an hour from Lansing. After serving in the U.S. Army Air ...

UNC history professor and author Kathleen DuVal saw her latest book named a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history on ...

A Fayetteville-born author has won a Pulitzer Prize for her critically acclaimed book. Kathleen DuVal, a historian at the ...

Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and composer Susie Ibarra have won Pulitzer Prizes ...

The Pulitzers also honored Ann Telnaes, who quit the Washington Post after the news outlet refused to run her editorial ...

Percival Everett's novel "James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of ...