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)."
Jennifer Higdon won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2010 for her Violin Concerto.
Rae Armantrout won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Versed. According to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Versedis "a book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading."
the pulitzer prize
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
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.
Martin Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Journey in the Dark. The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the category from "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948.
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.
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Charles Ives' Symphony No. 3 won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Maxine Kumin won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with her collection Up Country.