Alex Haley won a Pulitzer "Special Citation" in 1977 for his book Roots:The Saga of an American Family.
He later settled a lawsuit admitting plagiarism from Harold Courlander's The African, published in 1967.
Yes, Gwendolyn Brooks won a Pulitzer Prize for her book of poems, Annie Allen, in 1950.
None of Alice Walkers poetry has earned a Pulitzer Prize, although it may have won other awards. Walker's only Pulitzer is the one she received in 1983 for her book, The Color Purple.
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).
So far, only one, Toni Morrison -- but there have only been eight people in history to win both a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize in Literature.1988: Pulitzer (Fiction): Beloved by Toni Morrison1993: Nobel in Literature, Toni Morrison
Harper Lee, the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird", won these awards like The Pulitzer prize , and The Presidential medal of Freedom.
Alex Haley.
Alex Haley won the Pulitzer Prize on April 18, 1977.
(Alex Haley won a "special Pulitzer Award" for the 1977 book, but later settled a lawsuit admitting plagiarism from Harold Courlander's "The African", 1967 )
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Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Road.
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
Author Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940.
Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.
Martin Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Journey in the Dark. The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the category from "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948.