Who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry?

Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American (not just a woman!) to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded it in the category of Poetry for her collection Annie Alien.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was the first African-American, first African-American Poet, and first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer for Poetry for her acclaimed collection, Annie Allen.

Alice Walker was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (first black woman).

In 1983, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her acclaimed novel, The Color Purple.

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.

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her play, Topdog/Underdog. Parks was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer for Drama.

Edith Wharton wrote a number of novels during her lifetime. Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.

yes, she was the first African American woman to ever receive the prize for a fiction novel

She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama. She was born in Portage, Wisconsin.

Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize.

Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1983. Her Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra.

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."

Susan Sheehan won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book about a young woman dealing with schizophrenia, Is There No Place On Earth For Me? (Houghton Mifflin). Sheehan's husband, Neil Sheehan, won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) became the first African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1950 with her collection, Annie Allen (Harper). She was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer in any category. Brooks was an acclaimed poet and author who published her first poem at age 13. She went on to become Poet Laureate of Illinois (1968) and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1985), both high honors. Over the course of her life, Brooks wrote 24 published books of poetry, including the celebrated work We Real Cool (1966) and five nonfiction titles. The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. To read more of Gwendolyn Brooks' poetry, see Related Links, below.

Marie Curie Was The First Woman To Be Awarded The Nobel Prize

African-American female author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 and became the first black woman to do so. Morrison also one the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for her book "Beloved."

yes she was. the first ever woman to win a nobel prize!

Jane Addams was the first woman to win the nobel peace prize in 1931.

Mother Teresa is the first woman from India (Asia) of Albanian origin to get a Nobel Prize

== Madam Marie Curie (1903 Physics) was the first woman to win any Nobel prize. Answer Bertha von Suttner (1905 Peace) was the first woman to win a Nobel Peace prize

Pearl S. Buck was the first woman to win the Nobel prize for literature

Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

The first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was Toni Morrison. She was born in Ohio on the 18th February 1931. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction earlier on in 1988. Further Reading: Toni Morrison on Wikipedia List of black Nobel laureates on Wikipedia Women Nobel Prize winners on the official Nobel Prize website Toni Morrison on the official Nobel Prize website Please note that it is a common error to call this Nobel Prize the "Nobel Peace Prize for Literature". It is not a "peace" prize. The correct name for the award is "Nobel Prize for Literature".

Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize. She was awarded the prize inn 1931 jointly with Nicholas Murray Butler.