The Wildest Cheating Scandals in Awards History
The awards world has its fair share of drama and scandal, and it runs on a sliding scale of severity. In this article, we look at cases of impropriety and cheating that happened in both mainstream and niche spaces.
She won a Pulitzer for a kid who didn't exist
When Janet Cooke sat down to write “Jimmy’s World,” she wasn’t trying to win a Pulitzer. She was trying to write the most gripping story The Washington Post had ever run. She got there. On September 28, 1980, the Post put her front-page tale of an eight-year-old heroin addict in Washington, D.C., in front of the whole city. Officials launched a search for the boy. The piece won the 1981 Pulitzer for Feature Writing.
Then it fell apart in about two days. Editors were tipped off to discrepancies in Cooke's official prize biography, which claimed she had graduated magna cum laude...
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