There are lots of Pulitzer Prize winners named John, but you may be asking about John Steinbeck, author of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
There have been a few Pulitzer Prize winners named John. One notable example is John Updike, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice for his novels "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." Another example is John Fetterman, who won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his work on the Washington Post's Pentagon Papers coverage.
Pulitzer-prize winner John Updike, in the novel "Rabbit, Run"
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940.
John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for Novels for his book The Grapes of Wrath in 1940. His novella, Of Mice and Men, never won a Pulitzer but did receive a 1938 Drama Critics' Circle Award.
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940.
John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won a Pulitzer Prize for best Novel in 1940.
John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won a Pulitzer Prize for best Novel in 1940.
Future President John F. Kennedy won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book Profiles in Courage.
John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize. in 1957.
John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage in 1957.
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William Kennedy's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ironweed, was about the Great Depression, but so was John Steinbeck's 1940 Pulitzer Prize novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
No. Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize was John F. Kennedy for his biography Profiles in Courage.