The 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to Zoe Akins for her dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, The Old Maid. Although this was Akins' only Pulitzer win, another of her plays, The Greeks Had a Word For It, was adapted for the silver screen and became the 1953 hit movie How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Marylin Monroe.
Arthur Miller won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play Death of a Salesman.
African-American playwright August Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Wilson's play, Fences, won the Prize in 1987; another of his plays, The Piano Lesson, won in 1990.
John Updike won the Pulitzer twice. The first one was for "Rabbit is Rich" in 1981, and the sceond was for its successor "Rabbit at Rest" in 1991.
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Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Road.
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
Author Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940.
Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.
Martin Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Journey in the Dark. The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the category from "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948.