Lin-Manuel Miranda Wins Pulitzer Prize For <em>Hamilton</em>

"Hamilton" mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrates with his Grammy award after a special Grammys performance

Another day, another accolade for playwright-composer-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda: He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his groundbreaking hip-hop musical about founding father Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton.

Miranda, who is pretty excellent at Twitter, told his followers:

Then the news came:

He reacted:

And referenced an old Tweet:

(This Tweet from February 2015:)

And is very thankful:

The Tony Award nominations will be announced on May 3, and it's expected that the Hamilton juggernaut will continue its winning streak there. This past week, it was announced that the show would share its (enormous) profits with original cast members—coincidentally, this socialist approach came after Bernie Sanders caught the show.

Other local winners of Pulitzer Prizes include The New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum for Criticism and Kathryn Schulz's Feature Reporting, also for The New Yorker, and the New York Times, for Breaking News Photography and Alissa Rubin's International Reporting. More winners here.