Pulitzer Prizes
In 2008, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his Washington Post story "Pearls Before Breakfast", "his chronicling of a world-class violinist (Joshua Bell) who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters." In 2010, he won a second Pulitzer for "Fatal Distraction," "his haunting story about parents, from varying walks of life, who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars."
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