The Pulitzer Prizes for 1981 were announced on April 13, 1981.
Spot News finalist photo of goalie Jim Craig
The Pulitzer Prizes are two-dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
Columbia President Lee Bollinger presents the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to Jeffrey Eugenides
Pulitzer Hall on the Columbia campus