Awarded annually by Columbia University since 1917, the Pulitzer Prize recognizes achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The journalism category has fourteen separate awards, while the letters category offers awards for fiction, history, poetry, biography or autobiography and general non-fiction. A Pulitzer-Prize board makes recommendations for the prizes, which include a gold medal for public service in journalism and $5,000 awards for the other categories. Hungarian-born immigrant Joseph Pulitzer, publisher and owner of the St. Louis-Dispatch and the New York World, endowed both the Pulitzer Prizes and the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.