Jennifer Higdon won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her "Violin Concerto." The award was given for "distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year (2009)."
Rae Armantrout won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Versed. According to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Versedis "a book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading."
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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.
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Maxine Kumin won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with her collection Up Country.