Lisa Pulitzer Lisa Pulitzer Lisa Pulitzer (born c. 1962) is an American author and journalist. Pulitzer is a former correspondent for "The New York Times" newspaper. She is the author/ghostwriter of more than fifteen non-fiction books. In addition to her own books, Pulitzer has written a number of memoirs including several about young women who have escaped fundamentalist religion including Jenna Miscavige Hill the former Scientologist, Lauren Drain the ex-member of Westboro Baptist Church and Elissa Wall who wrote about her experiences after leaving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Pulitzer left journalism in 1998 while pregnant with her
Pulitzer Prize for Music from the same narrow Eurocentric aesthetic... These seven men have determined who wins the big prizes in American music for the last two decades. They have made sure that Downtown composers never win." After winning the Pulitzer in 2003, John Adams expressed "ambivalence bordering on contempt" because "most of the country's greatest musical minds" have been ignored in favor of academic music. Gunther Schuller welcomed the broadening of the eligibility criteria for the prize in 2004: "This is a long overdue sea change in the whole attitude as to what can be considered for the prize. It is an opening