William Inge won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play, Picnic.
Eugene O'Neill won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play, Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Pulitzer Prize
1990
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition.
Canadian short-story author, Alice Ann Munro, did not win a Pulitzer Prize for her book, The View from Castle Rock(Vintage, 2008). The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to US citizens and residents.
No. According to the Pulitzer.org database, Doris Lessing never won a Pulitzer Prize.
Charles Gordone became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1970 with his play No Place To Be Somebody.
Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to readers as Dr. Seuss, won a Special Citation (not a Pulitzer Prize) from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1984.
Al Gore never won the Pulitzer Prize. He won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his documentary about global warming, Inconvenient Truth.
Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
Gwendolyn Brooks won a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection, Annie Allen, in 1950.
In 1978, James Alan McPherson became the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, Elbow Room.The Pulitzer Prize Board recognized Alex Haley with a Special Citation the year before (1977) for his historical fiction, Roots, but he didn't actually win a Pulitzer Prize.