Jhumpa Lahiri, the first Indian woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize, was awarded the 2000 Prize in Fiction for her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies,(Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin). Lahiri was also the recipient of an O.Henry Prize and was included in the anthology, Best of Short Fiction for 1999 for the story "A Temporary Matter."
The first Indian to win a Pulitzer Prize was author and journalist Jhumpa Lahiri. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for her debut short story collection, "Interpreter of Maladies."
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-American writer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for his book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer."
The first name of the originator of the Pulitzer Prize is Joseph.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (first black woman).
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama was created in 1918.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was created in 1922.
Pulitzer Prize for Photography was created in 1942.
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary was created in 1970.