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Toni Morrison wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved, which was published in 1987.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic with the first name Richard is Richard Eder. He was a book critic and reviewer for The New York Times and won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1987.
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The Pulitzer prize winning poet and author Rita Dove died at the age of 61.
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse aired from 1950 to 1952, running for approximately two seasons. The show featured adaptations of Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and was known for its high-quality productions.
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel The Color Purple, which went on to become a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning film.
Two 1940s-era Pulitzer Prize-winning books became major motion pictures. The first was John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize; the second was James Michener's novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which won the 1948 Pulitzer.
William Kennedy's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ironweed, was about the Great Depression, but so was John Steinbeck's 1940 Pulitzer Prize novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, was published in 1982 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
There are a number of award subcategories in the Pulitzer Prize Journalism category each year; ethnicity varies and is not a consideration for winning.