Journalism awards may not be inclusive, due to lack of information about the ethnicity of winners.
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen, Poetry
1983 Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Fiction
1987 Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah, Poetry
1988 Toni Morrison, Beloved, Fiction
1994 Isabel Wilkerson, Feature Writing, The New York Times
2002 Suzan-Lori Parks, Top Dog/Under Dog, Drama
2006 Robin Givham, Criticism, The Washington Post
2007 Cynthia Tucker, Commentary, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2007 Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, Poetry
2009 Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, an American Family History, History
2009 Lynn Nottage, Ruined, Drama
CNN has won a total of 11 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2021.
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The New York Times has won the most Pulitzer Prizes by far, at 109, including the five received in 2011. The newspaper with the second best record is The Washington Post, with 57 awards.
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African-American playwright August Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Wilson's play, Fences, won the Prize in 1987; another of his plays, The Piano Lesson, won in 1990.
No. There is no single individual who won 49 Pulitzer Prizes, but some newspapers and news organizations have accumulated many for journalism categories over the years.The Associated Press (aka AP), which is not a newspaper but a "wire service" (or news bureau) that supplies articles and photographs to newspapers won 49 Pulitzer Prizes. Most of the their awards were for photography or photojournalism, and the majority of their wins were prior to 1990.The New York Times has an impressive record of 109 wins since 1917, the greatest number of Pulitzer Prizes won by one organization, as of 2011.
He won two Pulitzer Prizes. (awards for books)
The Los Angeles Times has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism, including six prestigious Public Service Awards in 2011, 2005, 1984, 1969, 1960, and 1942.
Maya Angelou won four Pulitzer Prizes and was the first person to read a poem at a U.S. Presidential inauguration.
There is no formal limit to the number of times a person (or news organization) can win a Pulitzer Prize. Robert Frost won four times for his poetry; The New York Times won 109 times for Journalism.
He won two Pulitzer Prizes. (awards for books)
Barbara W. Tuchman won two Pulitzer Prizes in General Nonfiction. The first, in 1963, was for her book The Guns of August (Macmillan); the second, in 1972, was for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945(Macmillan).