Moneta Sleet, Jr., award-winning photojournalist, became the first African-American man to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for "Deep Sorrow," his photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s widow, taken at Dr. King's funeral. The image was published in Ebony Magazine.
N. Scott Momaday is the first and (so far) only Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Momaday won the Fiction category in 1969 for his novel, House Made of Dawn (Harper).
Author Edith Wharton became the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for a Novel (the category name was changed to "Fiction" in 1948) in 1921 for her classic work, The Age of Innocence.
Mona van Duyn was the first person to hold the title Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, in 1992-3. However, Louise Bogan held the previous version of the title, Consultant in Poetry in 1945-6.
Moneta Sleet, Jr., the first African-American photographer and second African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize, won the 1969 award in Feature Photography for "Deep Sorrow." Sleet captured a powerful image of Dr. Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and one of their children at King's funeral. The photograph was originally published in Ebony.
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Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, left instructions for establishing the Pulitzer Prize to recognize excellence in Journalism and in Letters, Drama and Music in his will, but the founding committee was not organized until after his death. The first awards were presented in 1917.
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
The first name of the originator of the Pulitzer Prize is Joseph.
The Pulitzer Prize is an American Award for Journalism, Literature and MusicThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.Pulitzer Prize winners are chosen by an independent board.An American newspaper publisher named Joseph Pulitzer established the prize and left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911.Columbia began its journalism school with its share of the money and Columbia has administered the Pulitzer Prize since its inception.Category winners (20) receive $10K & a certificate suitable for framing.A Gold Medal is given to the newspaper which wins in the Public Service category.
The first Asian to receive a Pulitzer Prize in journalism was H. D. S. Greenway, who won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1972 for his coverage of famine in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious award recognizing excellence in journalism, literature, and musical composition. Charles Lindbergh was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 1928 for his solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, which made him the first person to accomplish this feat.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (first black woman).
The Pulitzer Prize(s) was first awarded in 1917. Contrary to popular belief, there is more than one Pulitzer given each year. Prizes are awarded for a number of subcategories under both Journalism and Letters, Drama and Music.
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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Sara Teasdale was the first person to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She was awarded the Pulitzer in 1918 for her collection, Love Songs. The Poetry Society provided a grant to support the this category in 1918-1920.
Wynton Marsalis won the 1997 (not 1996) Pulitzer Prize in Music for Blood on the Fields. He was the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer.