For 2018, the Pulitzer Committee raised the prize money from $10,000 to $15,000, an amount that is just as taxable as anything the winning journalist or historian earns on their W-2. Bestowed by Columbia University, the award’s current sum also equals almost exactly one-quarter of that college’s $59,444 tuition for the 2018-19 school year. Kendrick Lamar , the first non-jazz or non-classical musician ever to win a Pulitzer , already has an estimated $18 million, so DAMN. ’s winning the most prestigious prize in American letters represents a cash infusion equal to less than 0.1 percent of Lamar’s net […]
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