Pulitzer Prize for Music was created in 1943.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama was created in 1918.
Pulitzer Prize for Photography was created in 1942.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was created in 1922.
Pulitzer Prize for History was created in 1917.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was created in 1948.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary was created in 1970.
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was created in 1985.
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse was created on 1950-10-06.
Charles Ives' Symphony No. 3 won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
In 1970, Charles Wuorinen became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Time's Encomium. He was 32 years old.
Ned Rorem won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Air Music ("Ten Etudes of Orchestra"), which was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in December 1975.
The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher, best known for endowing the Columbia School of Journalism and establishing the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, literature, and music.