Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's musical style is typically categorized as post-modern, neo-romantic. She won a 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra), "commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982 in Alice Tully Hall, New York City." Zwilich was the first woman to win a Pulitzer for composing music.
Prior to the 1980s, Zwilich's work was considered "atonal."
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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.
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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.
Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, best known for his humorous comics that depicted absurdly complex machines performing simple tasks.
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
There are a number of award subcategories in the Pulitzer Prize Journalism category each year; ethnicity varies and is not a consideration for winning.
Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, was published in 1982 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
Author Toni Morrison wrote Beloved, the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction.
The duration of Pulitzer Prize Playhouse is 3600.0 seconds.
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