In honor of year's Pulitzer Prize announcements on April 18 at Columbia Journalism School, we looked back at some Columbians who have won the coveted prize throughout the years.
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Here are the Columbia alumni who won a Pulitzer Prize this year:
Cara Fitzpatrick '06JRN - Staff Writer, Tampa Bay Times
Awarded to Cara D. Fitzpatrick and two other reporters at the Tampa Bay Times for exposing a local school board's culpability in turning some county schools into failure factories, with tragic consequences for the community.
(Photo: TampaBay.com)
Alissa Rubin '85GSAS - Paris Bureau Chief, New York Times
Awarded to Alissa J. Rubin of the New York Times for thoroughly reported and movingly written accounts giving voice to Afghan women who were forced to endure unspeakable cruelties.
(Photo: New York Times)
T. J. Stiles '88, '91GSAS - Freelance writer
(Photo: SFGate.com)
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The following Columbia alumni won the prize in years past:
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Brian Yorkey '93CC and Tom Kitt '96CC
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The College alumni won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2010 for the Tony-winning musical Next to Normal. Yorkey was the play's lyricist and Kitt the composer.
"I think we wanted to take chances," Yorkey told Playbill after their win. "We wanted to write something that wasn't safe and didn't seem on the face of it like a commercial hit.
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Eric Foner '63CC, '69GSAS
(Photo: Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning)
Foner, the Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia, won the 2011 history Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. The book tells the story of Lincoln's—and the nation's—transformation through slavery and emancipation.
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Vijay Seshadri '88SOA
The School of Arts alumnus and poet won the prize in 2014 for his collection of poems "3 Sections." Seshadri teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
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Margo Jefferson '71JRN 
(Photo: The Nation)
Jefferson, who is on faculty at Columbia School of the Arts, won the Pulitzer in 1995 for her book reviews in The New York Times. Last fall, Jefferson spoke with Columbia about her new memoir Negroland.
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David Philipps '02JRN
The journalism alumnus and reporter at The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colorado, won the prize in 2014 for his reporting that examined how soldiers discharged during war were discharged without benefits.
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Richard Howard '51CC
(Photo: Poets.org)
Howard, a professor emeritus of professional practice at Columbia and School of the Arts faculty member, won the Pulitzer for Poetry in 1969 for his book, Untitled Subjects.
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Nigel Jaquiss '97JRN
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The Portland, OR-based Journalism graduate and reporter at Willamette Week was awarded the prize in 2005 for his reporting that exposed sexual assault by former OR Governor Neil Goldschmidt.
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Geraldine Brooks '83JRN
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Brooks' March won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The novel imagines the life of the fictional father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
Brooks told The New York Times at the time that she was "in a state of disbelief" over her win.
''It's like being struck by lightning,'' she said.
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Carl Schorske '36CC
(Photo: The New York Times)
Schorske, who passed away last fall at age 100, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for general nonfiction for "Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture." The book consists of seven essays, each seating different aspects of intellectual life within the context of a significant period of political ferment and social tumult, The New York Times reported.
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Jhumpa Lahiri '89BC
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Barnard alumna Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies.
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