It's the 160th birthday of Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes and publisher of the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The 2007 Pulitzer Prizes will be announced this coming Monday, April 16. Part of a bequest to Columbia University for their journalism school, the Pulitzer Prizes were intended to promote excellence in journalism. They are awarded to Americans in the areas of news, literature, music composition, and photography.

Among the recent prizewinners for fiction are Marilynne Robinson's Gilead , Geraldine Brooks's March, and The Known World by Edward P. Jones.

Three people have each won four Pulitzers, the most awarded to one person: Robert Frost (for "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes", "Collected Poems", "A Further Range", and "A Witness Tree"), Eugene O'Neill (for "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie", "Strange Interlude", and "Long Day's Journey Into Night"), and Robert Sherwood (for "Idiots Delight", "Abe Lincoln in Illinois", "There Shall Be No Night", and "Roosevelt and Hopkins").

For more about the Pulitzer Prizes, take a look at the official web site, http://pulitzer.org. Here you can view the winners for each year since the first prizes were awarded in 1917, ninety years ago. Then stop by and pick up a copy!