Pulitzer Prize Winners

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.

"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.

Not in particular. He did sell books, but was never awarded for it because he was just like any other author.

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (and Joshua Logan) won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the musical, South Pacific. Rodgers and Hammerstein also won a 1944 Special Citation from the Pulitzer Board for their contribution to music.

Richard Russo's 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls, was set in fictional Empire Falls, Maine, a deteriorating blue collar town that lost most of its industry and struggles with issues of poverty, unemployment and strained relationships.

William Kennedy's novel, Ironweed, won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Oh, dude, that would be John F. Kennedy. He won a Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1957 for his book "Profiles in Courage." So, yeah, JFK not only rocked the Oval Office but also snagged a Pulitzer. Like, no big deal.

N. Scott Momaday won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his book, House Made of Dawn.

Eugene Robinson, Associate Editor and columnist for The Washington Post, received $10,000 and a certificate for Commentary in 2009. Robinson wrote a series of articles about Barack Obama and his Presidential campaign in 2008.

Author John Meacham won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for 'autobiography' for his 'American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House'.

Author Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence.

The first prizes were awarded in l900-0l they are presented in the Fall. some early scientific Nobelists include Madame Marie Curie (two time winner- physics and chemistry) first physics prize went to Roentgen, the German scientist who discovered X-rays, which of course have medical applications, the man responsible for the modern EKG, Einthoven,a Dutch physician-cum-technology type was awarded the medical Nobel for his invention in the twenties.. as far as literature goes, the Nobel prize is a lifetime-career type thing, and not an award for a single tome- unlike the Pulitizer- thus there are no repeat awardees. some literary prize winners include Kipling in l907-he was the youngest literature prizeman- according to Guinesss, Hemingway and Steinbeck both won the literature prizes, rare among American popular authors/ to the best of my knowledge no detective fiction or Science fiction writer has EVER been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature.. look things up on this Nobel frontier. The Peace prize is the only won that can be A. awarded to an organizational body- such as Unicef, Doctors without Borders, and Amnesty International , also Red Cross a number of times- different agencies within this org. It also has been awarded posthumously- as in the case of Dag Hammarkskhold . The diplomat was killed in an African plane crash that may or may not have been accidental. His was the only posthumous award in the history of the Nobel prizes- and it was a peace prize.

E. Annie Proulx won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel "The Shipping News." The novel follows the story of Quoyle, a newspaper reporter who moves to Newfoundland to uncover his family's history.

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., grandson of Joseph Pulitzer, the famed newspaperman whose endowment to the Columbia School of Journalism funds the Pulitzer Prizes, won a Special Citation in 1987. The Board cited "...his extraordinary services to American journalism and letters during his 31 years as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board and for his accomplishments as an editor and publisher."

African-American playwright August Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Wilson's play, Fences, won the Prize in 1987; another of his plays, The Piano Lesson, won in 1990.

John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for Novels for his book The Grapes of Wrath in 1940.

There has been only one person to win a Nobel & an Oscar, it is none other than the Irish playwright 'George Bernard Shaw who' had won both the Nobel Prize for Literary contributions & for his work on his play Pygmalion in 1925 & went on to win an Oscar for his adapted screenplay for the movie "Pygmalion" based on his own work in 1938.

He never wanted his plays to be turned into Musicals during his lifetime, but later Alan Jay Lerner made it into one of the most astounding musical's in 1964 named "My Fair Lady" winning multiple Oscars, he took great care to retain much of the original play& the way of speech while making the movie.

No. According to the Pulitzer.org database, Doris Lessing never won a Pulitzer Prize.

Zona Gale was an American author, playwright, and activist who was born on August 26, 1874, and passed away on December 27, 1938. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921 for her play "Miss Lulu Bett." Gale was known for her works that highlighted social issues and the lives of women in small-town America. She was also a prominent member of the women's suffrage movement.