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" His plays - - Ma Rainey 's Black Bottom , Fences , Joe Turner 's Come and Gone , The Piano Lesson , Two Trains Running and Seven Guitars - - have been honored with numerous awards , including a Tony and two Pulitzer Prizes . " All this raises the very serious question as to why this university , which tolerates such incredible behavior on campus , deserves either tax-exemption , government subsidies , to charge high tuitions and the right to award Pulitzer Prizes . Professor E. O. Wilson of Harvard University , who has won two Pulitzer prizes for his penetrating looks at both humans and insects , believes we all possess what he calls " biophilia . In his 32-year career at Drake , Woodward guided the talents and careers of journalists from small-town newspaper editors to Pulitzer Prize winners . Studies by historians Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Pulitzer Prize winner Herbert Bix tie in with long-established evidence suggesting that months before the bombings , top American and British policy makers were aware that a declaration of war by the Soviet Union combined with assurances for the Japanese emperor would likely end the war . " This year 's Pulitzer Prizes show dramatically how newspapers above all other media remain essential to Thomas Jefferson 's warning : " A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the powers knowledge gives . How the Mind Works , which uses this approach to examine behaviors from music-making to murder , was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award . On June 5 , only a year after the world 's most esteemed newspaper won a record seven Pulitzer prizes , executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd stepped down . The Reynolds gift , the third largest in Smithsonian history , was to have paid for an exhibit on American achievers , such as Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners , at the National Museum of American History , in Washington . In 1987 , he won a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary for his syndicated column in The Washington Post .