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Author Toni Morrison wrote Beloved, the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction.
Katharine Graham won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Biography or Autobiography for her memoir, Personal History.
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.
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Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple.
"Larry" Richard Russo wrote "Empire Falls" which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002, and it is his most acclaimed work. "Foreign Affairs" is a novel by American author Alison Lurie, and it also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1985.
The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize was Of Thee I Sing, a political satire based on a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The play debuted in 1931 and won the Pulitzer in 1932. Although George Gershwin wrote the musical score, his name is not listed as one of the winners.
He wrote the 1957 best seller "Profiles in Courage."
Rita Dove wrote Mother Love Poems, but it wasn't her Pulitzer Prize winning collection; Dove won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Thomas and Beulah.
John F. Kennedy wrote Profiles In Courage
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The first novel to win a Pulitzer Prize was His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan), in 1918. There was no winner in that category the first year the prize was awarded.Poole wrote 24 books between 1906 and 1949, and is (allegedly) best known for his 1915 novel, The Harbor.