Who was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry?

Answer 1

James Agee won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for A Death In The Family in 1958. Agee began writing the novel in 1948, but it remained unfinished when he died in 1955. Editor David McDowell worked on the manuscript, which was published posthumously in 1957. It has been listed as one of Time Magazine's "100 Best English-Language Novels."

University of Tennessee English professor, Michael Lofaro, reconstructed and rewrote the novel from Agee's original manuscript and notes and published a second version of A Death in the Family in 2007. The second book differs significantly from the Pulitzer winner.

Answer 2

Sylvia Plath is the first and only person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Plath received an award for an anthology of her work, The Collected Poems (Harper & Row), in 1982, nineteen years after her death by suicide. Plath's husband, late Poet Laureate of England Ted Hughes, oversaw publication of her work.

Answer 3

In 1935, Audrey Wurdemann became the youngest person to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, at age 24, for her collection Bright Ambush.

Five Youngest Poets (Pulitzer)

1. 1935: Audrey Wurdeman, 24
2. 1932: George Dillon, 26
3. 1929: Stephen Vincent Benet, 30
4. 1947: Robert Lowell, 30
5. 1923: Edna St. Vincent Millay, 31

Answer 4

The youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was Gwendolyn Brooks. She won the prize in 1950 at the age of 32 for her collection called "Annie Allen."