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
Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer Joseph J. Pulitzer (; ; born József Pulitzer; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" and the "New York World". He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his "World" and William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal" caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic