Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for best Novel for her Civil War saga, Gone with the Wind, in 1937. (The Novel category was renamed Fiction in 1948.)
Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel The Color Purple, which went on to become a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning film.
Ellen Glasgow is an actor. Ellen Glasgow is an author who wrote many books and stories. She won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel "In This Our Life".
In 1969, Moneta Sleet, Jr. became the second African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, and the first African-American to win a Pulitzer for photography, for his image of widow Coretta Scott King and child at Martin Luther King's funeral. The picture, Deep Sorrow, was featured in Ebony magazine.You can view a reproduction of the photo by clicking Related Links, below.
The 1977 ABC miniseries, based on Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," earned a whopping 36 Primetime Emmy nominations. It won nine awards, including Outstanding Limited Series.
No, the movie, Precious, is an adaptation of the novel, Push, by American author, Sapphire.
Author Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Author Toni Morrison wrote Beloved, the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction.
Margaret Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for her novel, The Able McLaughlins (Harper).
"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.
Philip Roth won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel, American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin).
William Kennedy's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ironweed, was about the Great Depression, but so was John Steinbeck's 1940 Pulitzer Prize novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
You may be referring to Alice Walker, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Walker's highly acclaimed novel, The Color Purple, received the award in 1983.
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John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won a Pulitzer Prize for best Novel in 1940.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
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In 1978, James Alan McPherson became the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, Elbow Room.The Pulitzer Prize Board recognized Alex Haley with a Special Citation the year before (1977) for his historical fiction, Roots, but he didn't actually win a Pulitzer Prize.