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Pulitzer Prize Winners
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize are chosen by an independent board. Notable winners include President John F. Kennedy for Biography, Robert Frost for Poetry, and Margaret Leech for History. Winners receive a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award.
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Who won the Pulitzer Prize for composing in 2010?
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)."
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage was written by President?
John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage in 1957.
Who is maxie Allen by gwendolyn brooks?
Maxie Allen is a fictional character in Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The Bean Eaters." Maxie Allen is portrayed as a homeless man who is disheveled but dignified, and who seems to find solace in simple rituals like eating beans with his wife. Through Maxie Allen, Brooks explores themes of poverty, resilience, and the dignity found in maintaining traditions.
How many Pulitzer Prizes were won by Mississippians?
Mississippi Pulitzer Winners and Finalists:
1946: Hodding Carter, Editorial Writing, The Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, MS
1948: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, drama
1955: William Faulkner, A Fable, Fiction
1955: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, drama
1961: David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, (biography)
1963: William Faulkner, The Reivers, Fiction
1973: Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, Fiction
1981: Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart, drama
1984: Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (biography)
1988: David Donald, Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (biography)
1996: Richard Ford, Independence Day
2002: David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, general nonfiction (finalist)
2005: Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, de Kooning: An American Master (biography)
2007: Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, poetry
2008: David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, history (finalist)
Who won the Pulitzer Prize for Tales of the South Pacific?
James Michener won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel Tales of the South Pacific.
Maya Angelou won four Pulitzer Prizes and was the first person to read a poem at a U.S. Presidential inauguration.
What year did alex Haley win the Pulitzer prize?
Alex Haley won the Pulitzer Prize on April 18, 1977.
What colleges have the most Pulitzer prize winners?
Some colleges with a significant number of Pulitzer Prize winners include Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago. These institutions have a history of producing notable writers, journalists, and scholars who have been recognized with Pulitzer Prizes for their work.
What are the names of the awards Aryabhatta has won?
Aryabhatta has not won any specific awards as he was an ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer who lived during the 5th century. However, he is widely recognized and celebrated for his contributions to the fields of mathematics and astronomy.
Who won the Pulitzer prize for literature in 1978?
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
How does the Pulitzer Prize relate to the novel Of Mice and Men?
John Steinbeck, author of the novella Of Mice and Men,(1937) also wrote The Grapes of Wrath, (1939) which won the Pulitzer Prize for best Novel in 1940 (the category was changed to "Fiction" in 1948). Of Mice and Men won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1938. Both books were banned in some school districts, but are also among the most-read novels in American literature.
In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his body of work, which includes Of Mice and Men.
Who is the Pulitzer Prize winner named Walker?
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.
Who won the Pulitzer Prizes in 2007 and 2008?
In 2007, The New York Times staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their coverage of the government’s warrantless wiretapping program. In 2008, The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its coverage of Vice President Dick Cheney.
What books won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007-2008?
Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies,(Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin). Lahiri was also the recipient of an O.Henry Prize and was included in the anthology Best of Short Fiction for 1999 for the story "A Temporary Matter."
Who is the only person to decline a Pulitzer prize?
Writer and philosopher Carl Sandburg declined a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Abraham Lincoln in 1940 because he did not want to accept the prize unless it was awarded through the usual process.
How many awards has Margaret mitchell won?
she has won the Pulitzer prize and a record breaking 10 academy awards!
Who was the second person to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for Jazz?
Ornette Coleman became the second jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2007 with his composition, Sound Grammar. In 1997, Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer with Blood on the Fields.
Garry Wills won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for his book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.
What did Alan Diaz win the Pulitzer Prize for?
Alan Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2001 for his photograph capturing the seizure of Elián González, a Cuban boy at the center of an international custody and immigration controversy.
Who were the Pulitzer Prize winning poets of the 20th century?
2011 The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
2010 Versed by Rae Armantrout
2009 The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin
2008 Time and Materials by Robert Hass
2008 Failure by Philip Schultz
2007 Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
2006 Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
2005 Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
2003 Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
2002 Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
2001 Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
2000 Repair by C.K. Williams
1999 Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
1998 Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
1996 The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham
1995 The Simple Truth by Philip Levine
1994 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
1993 The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
1992 Selected Poems by James Tate
1991 Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
1990 The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
1989 New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
1988 Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
1987 Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
1986 The Flying Change by Henry Taylor
1985 Yin by Carolyn Kizer
1984 American Primitive by Mary Oliver
1983 Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
1982 The Collected Poems by the late Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication)
1981 The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
1980 Selected Poems by Donald Justice
1979 Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
1978 Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
1977 Divine Comedies by James Merrill
1976 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
1975 Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
1974 The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
1973 Up Country by Maxine Kumin
1972 Collected Poems by James Wright
1971 The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin
1970 Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard
1969 Of Being Numerous by George Oppen
1968 The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
1967 Live or Die by Anne Sexton
1966 Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart
1965 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
1964 At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson
1963 Pictures from Brueghel by the late William Carlos Williams
1962 Poems by Alan Dugan
1961 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley
1960 Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass
1959 Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
1958 Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
1957 Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
1956 Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop
1955 Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
1954 The Waking by Theodore Roethke
1953 Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
1952 Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
1951 Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
1950 Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
1949 Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck
1948 The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden
1947 Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
1946 (No Award)
1945 V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro
1944 Western Star by the late Stephen Vincent Benet
1943 A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
1942 The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet
1941 Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon
1940 Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren
1939 Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher
1938 Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska
1937 A Further Range by Robert Frost
1936 Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
1935 Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann
1934 Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer
1933 Conquistador by Archibald Macleish
1932 The Flowering Stone by George Dillon
1931 Collected Poems by Robert Frost
1930 Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken
1929 John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet
1928 Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1927 Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer
1926 What's O'Clock by the late Amy Lowell
1925 The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1924 New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost
1923 A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay
1922 Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1919 Corn Huskers by Carl Sandburg
1919 Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer
1918 Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
1917 (No award)
Who was the oldest person to receive the Pulitzer Prize?
Jeffrey A. Marx became the youngest winner in 1986, at age 23, when he and fellow reporter Michael M. York received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Marx and York wrote a series of articles, "Playing Above the Rules," exposing a serious NCAA violation at the University of Kentucky, which was providing cash pay-outs to its players. The articles were published in the Lexington Herald Leader in 1985.
Which book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2011?
The novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.
How many people were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature in 1953 and 1954?
The answer to this question is unknown because the Pulitzer Prize Board didn't release information about nominees (actually, just the finalists) until 1995.
Who won a Pulitzer Prize for a book about the Okies during the drought of the century?
John Steinbeck wrote the 1940 Pulitzer Prize novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which details the plight of one family and the hardships of a generation forced to leave their farms in the Oklahoma dust bowl.
