With LitCity Lore, we periodically feature a story from our new LitCity website, which maps unique Iowa City literary stories to the locations where writers lived, worked, gave readings, socialized and were inspired by the town.

This week we are highlighting Sheba Wheeler’s Pulitzer Prize, which she received just years after graduating from the University of Iowa’s School of Journalism.

“Sheba R. Wheeler, 96BA, became a Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter before the age of 30, and she did so by demonstrating solid “shoe-leather” journalism, tenacity, and tremendous grace under pressure. Practically straight out of the UI’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, this Temple, Texas, native landed a staff reporter position at the Denver Post, a paper with a circulation of nearly half a million.”

Explore this story and more at the LitCity website.