Ned Rorem won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Air Music ("Ten Etudes of Orchestra"), which was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in December 1975.
Charles Ives' Symphony No. 3 won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Wynton Marsalis won the 1997 (not 1996) Pulitzer Prize in Music for Blood on the Fields. He was the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer.
Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith of The New York Timeswon the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "on sports in 1975 and for many other years."
Jennifer Higdon won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her "Violin Concerto." The award was given for "distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year (2009)."
Charles Ives won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music with Symphony No. 3. The symphony was first performed by Lou Harrison and Chamber Orchestra in New York, April, 1946.
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Age of Innocence" in 1921.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940.