Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (and Joshua Logan) won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the musical, South Pacific. Rodgers and Hammerstein also won a 1944 Special Citation from the Pulitzer Board for their contribution to music.
Oscar Hammerstein II won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his work on the musical "South Pacific" in 1950.
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan shared a 1950 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for South Pacific.Rodgers and Hammerstein also won a 1944 Pulitzer Special Award for their musical score and lyrics for Oklahoma.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition.
The late Jonathan Larson's musical, Rent, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 1996.
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for their musical, Sunday in the Park With George.
The Pulitzer Prize is associated with the field of journalism, literature, and musical composition. It is awarded for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition.
Oscar Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American author to win the Pulitzer Prize.
The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the "Novel" category to "Fiction" in 1948.The winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books).
Junot Diaz won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded by Columbia University in the United States.
The Pulitzer Jury recommended Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington for a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1965, but the Board rejected their suggestion. Ellington won a posthumous Special Citation (not a Pulitzer Prize) in 1999 "in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture."
Lilly Pulitzer was not related to Joseph Pulitzer. Lilly Pulitzer was a fashion designer known for her colorful, vibrant prints, while Joseph Pulitzer was a newspaper publisher who established the Pulitzer Prize for achievements in journalism, literature, and musical composition.
a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition