Yes. Wendy Wasserstein won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play, The Heidi Chronicles.
No. According to the Pulitzer.org database, Doris Lessing never won a Pulitzer Prize.
Ornette Coleman became the second jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2007 with his composition, Sound Grammar. In 1997, Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer with Blood on the Fields.
No. According to the Pulitzer database, Diana Son has never won a Pulitzer Prize, nor has she been a finalist in any year since they started releasing finalists' names in 1995.
yes, she was the first African American woman to ever receive the prize for a fiction novel
No. The Pulitzer Prizes were first awarded in 1917 for American (US) work published in the preceding year (1916). Leo Tolstoy was Russian, lived outside the United States, and died in 1910, so he wouldn't have been eligible to participate.
yes twice 1990 for the drama the piano lesson and also in 1987 for Fences
Edith Wharton was a writer from 1899-1938, though she passed away in 1937. She was the first female to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, in 1921, for her novel The Age of Innocence.
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway is not considered the stupidest book ever. In fact, it is a widely acclaimed novel that has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is seen as a classic in American literature. The book explores themes of perseverance, courage, and the human experience.
John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. My opinion but he did win a Pulitzer for it and the Nobel Prize in literature in 1962. Steinbeck also had a very good comic talent and in my opinion the best wtiter ever, American or foreign, modern or historic
yes
Although Camus was the first African born winner he did not win the award as an African. He was considered French. The first African born, African winner was Wole Soyinka who was an African writer from Nigeria who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, and was the first African who ever won the award. He wrote an autobiography called, "The Man Died" in 1972.
no