Letters, Drama, and Music
Fiction: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
Drama: The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn
History: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler
Biography or Autobiography: Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
Poetry: Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
General Nonfiction: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Music: Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass
Special Citations
Richard Lee Strout: For distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and contributor to The New Republic.
Special Awards and Citations - Letters: E.B. White: For his letters, essays and the full body his work.
Journalism
Public Service: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Local General or Spot News Reporting: Richard Whitt of Louisville Courier-Journal
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting: Anthony R. Dolan of The Stamford Advocate
National Reporting: Gaylord D. Shaw of Los Angeles Times
International Reporting: Henry Kamm of The New York Times
Commentary: William Safire of The New York Times
Criticism: Walter Kerr of The New York Times
Editorial Writing: Meg Greenfield of The Washington Post, deputy editorial page editor
Editorial Cartooning: Jeffrey K. MacNelly of Richmond News Leader
Spot News Photography: John H. Blair of United Press International
Feature Photography: J. Ross Baughman of Associated Press
James Alan McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978 for his short story collection "Elbow Room."
Toni Morrison, amongst many others. See Related Links.
Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
James Alan McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel, Elbow Room.
William Styron won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner.
Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 for "The Old Man and the Sea" and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his influential writing style and his profound impact on modern literature.
Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his novella, The Old Man and the Sea, then won a Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1954. He committed suicide in 1960, after a long struggle with depression.
Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 for her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Carl Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book The Dragons of Eden in 1978.
Booth Tarkington won a 1919 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Magnificent Ambersons (Doubleday).
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Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. It is a story about a woman who escapes slavery but is haunted by her past and the ghost of her deceased daughter.
Pearl S. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932 for her novel "The Good Earth."
No, Doris Lessing did not win the Pulitzer Prize. However, she did receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her extensive body of work.
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The Grapes of Wrath (1939). It won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize and Steinbeck won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.