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.
Charles Ives' Symphony No. 3 won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
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George Gershwin won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1950 posthumously for his opera "Porgy and Bess." The award recognized the work's significant contribution to American music. Gershwin's composition, which premiered in 1935, is celebrated for its blend of classical and jazz elements.
Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. He also won a Nobel Prize for literature for this book.
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Wynton Marsalis won the 1997 (not 1996) Pulitzer Prize in Music for Blood on the Fields. He was the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer.
The Pulitzer Jury recommended Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington for a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1965, but the Board rejected their suggestion. Ellington won a posthumous Special Citation (not a Pulitzer Prize) in 1999 "in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture."
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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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