Alison Lurie won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel Foreign Affairs (Random House).
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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.
Edith Wharton wrote a number of novels during her lifetime. Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Gwendolyn Brooks was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection, Annie Allen.
Dorothy Uhnak is one Pulitzer Prize winner with a last name starting with the letter U. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963 for her novel "The Bunyip."
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded by Columbia University in the United States.
William Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his book "Ironweed." It is a novel that explores themes of redemption, forgiveness, and the struggles of the human spirit.
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.
The Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1955 was for the Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens.
The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize was Of Thee I Sing, a political satire based on a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The play debuted in 1931 and won the Pulitzer in 1932. Although George Gershwin wrote the musical score, his name is not listed as one of the winners.
It won nine Tony Awards and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic with the last name Richard is Hilton Als. He is a prominent theater critic, author, and cultural critic known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2017 for his work as a theater critic for The New Yorker.
Sylvia Plath is the only person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Plath received an award for an anthology of her work, The Collected Poems (Harper & Row), in 1982, nineteen years after her death by suicide. Plath's husband, late Poet Laureate of England Ted Hughes, oversaw publication of her work.