Garry Wills won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for his book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.
Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, was born in Topeka, Kansas. Brooks received the award in 1950 for her collection of poems, Annie Allen.
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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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Eugene Robinson, Associate Editor and columnist for The Washington Post, received $10,000 and a certificate for Commentary in 2009. Robinson wrote a series of articles about Barack Obama and his Presidential campaign in 2008.
Two 1940s-era Pulitzer Prize-winning books became major motion pictures. The first was John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize; the second was James Michener's novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which won the 1948 Pulitzer.
Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, best known for his humorous comics that depicted absurdly complex machines performing simple tasks.
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, was published in 1982 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
There are a number of award subcategories in the Pulitzer Prize Journalism category each year; ethnicity varies and is not a consideration for winning.
Author Toni Morrison wrote Beloved, the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction.