2011 Pulitzer Prize 2011 Pulitzer Prize The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 18, 2011. "The Los Angeles Times" won two prizes, including the highest honor for Public Service. "The New York Times" also won two awards. No prize was handed out in the Breaking News category. "The Wall Street Journal" won an award for the first time since 2007. Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" picked up the Fiction prize after already winning the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award. Photographer Carol Guzy of "The Washington Post" became the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes. In December
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 31 years under the "Novel" name, the prize was awarded 27 times; in its first 69 years to 2016 under the "Fiction" name, 62 times. In 11 years, no novel received the award. It has never been shared by two authors. Three writers have won two prizes each in the Fiction category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike. Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year. Three writers to date have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction multiple times, one nominally in the novel category and two in the general fiction category.