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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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What African American won the first nobel prize?
Ralphe Bunche won the award in 1950 for mediating a cease-fire in Palestine.
Other blacks who have won the award include Albert Luthuli, Martin Luther King Jr, William Lewis, Desmond Tutu, Wole Solinka, Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Wangari Maathai, and Barack Obama.
How many Pulitzer Prizes has the Los Angeles Times won?
The Los Angeles Times has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism, including six prestigious Public Service Awards in 2011, 2005, 1984, 1969, 1960, and 1942.
What Bronx high school graduated seven Nobel Prize winners and seven Pulitzer Prize winners?
The Bronx High School of Science (aka Bronx Science), a magnet school within the Bronx public school district, is considered one of the top schools (public or private) in the United States. Most of their graduates go on to attend Ivy League universities. Seven former students won Nobel Prizes in Physics; six former students won (seven) Pulitzer Prizes for writing.
Nobel Prize Winners
1972: Leon N. Cooper, Physics
1979: Steven Weinberg, Physics
1988: Melvin Schwartz, Physics
1993: Russell A. Hulse, Physics
2004: H. David Politzer, Physics
2005: Roy J. Glauber, Physics
Pulitzer Prize Winners
1974: William Sherman, Local Investigative Specialized Reporting, New York Daily News
1978: William Safire, Commentary, The New York Times
1986: Joseph Lelyveld, General Nonfiction: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
1998: Bernard L. Stein, Editorial Writing, The Riverdale (NY) Press
2004: William Taubman, Biography: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
2008: Gene Weingarten, Feature Writing, The Washington Post
2010: Gene Weingarten, Feature Writing, The Washington Post
What news story won the Pulitzer Prize but was completely made up?
Janet Cooke (born July 23,1954) was an American journalist who became infamous when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story that she wrote for The Washington Post.
In 1980, Cooke joined the "Weeklies" section staff of the Washington Post under editor Vivian Aplin-Brownlee. To secure this post, she said she had a degree from Vassar College, studied at the Sorbonne University, and was the recipient of an award at the Toledo Blade newspaper.
In an article entitled Jimmy's World, which appeared in the Post on September 29, 1980, Cooke wrote a gripping profile of the life of an 8-year-old heroin addict. She described the "needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms." The story engendered much sympathy among readers, including Marion Barry, then mayor of Washington, D.C. He and other city officials organized an all-out police search for the boy, which was unsuccessful and led to claims that the story was fraudulent. Barry claimed that Jimmy was known to the city and receiving treatment.
Despite growing signs of problems, the Post defended the veracity of the story and Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward nominated the story for the Pulitzer Prize. Cooke was named winner of the prize on April 13, 1981.
When the editors of the Toledo Blade, where Cooke had previously worked, read her biographical notes, they noticed a number of discrepancies. Further investigation revealed that Cooke's credentials were false. Pressured by the editors of The Washington Post, Cooke confessed her guilt.
Two days after the prize had been awarded, Washington Post publisher Donald Graham held a press conference and admitted that the story was fraudulent. The editorial in the next day's paper offered a public apology. Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward said at the time: "I believed it, we published it. Official questions had been raised, but we stood by the story and her. Internal questions had been raised, but none about her other work. The reports were about the story not sounding right, being based on anonymous sources, and primarily about purported lies [about] her personal life -- [told by three reporters], two she had dated and one who felt in close competition with her. I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story -- fake and fraud that it is. It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes."
Cooke resigned and returned the prize. She appeared on the Phil Donahue show in January 1982, and said that the high-pressure environment of the Washington Post had corrupted her judgment. She said that her sources had hinted to her about the existence of a boy such as Jimmy, but unable to find him, she eventually created a story about him in order to satisfy her editors.
Cooke was the subject of an interview by Mike Sager, appearing in GQ in June 1996. Sager's article was republished in an anthology Scary Monsters and Super Freaks. The movie rights to her story were reportedly purchased for $1.6 million by Columbia TriStar Pictures, to be divided between Cooke (55 percent), Sager and their agents. The film has not yet been produced.
What musical won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony in 1996?
The late Jonathan Larson's musical, Rent, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 1996.
What Thornton Wilder play set in Grover's Corner New Hampshire won a Pulitzer Prize?
Thornton Wilder won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play, Our Town, set in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire (much of it in the town cemetery).
Who was the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1969?
N. Scott Momaday is the first and (so far) only Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Momaday won the Fiction category in 1969 for his novel, House Made of Dawn (Harper).
What was Alice Walker's acceptance speech when she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983?
Alice Walker's acceptance speech contrasted the differences in perception, depending on whether a woman is white or black, separates black and white feminists. She went on to say black women are universalists, and have a relationship with all people of color.
What is the name of the novel that earned author Alice Walker a Pulitzer Prize?
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.
Who was the first black women to win the Pulitzer prize?
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) became the first African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1950 with her collection, Annie Allen (Harper). She was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer in any category.
Brooks was an acclaimed poet and author who published her first poem at age 13. She went on to become Poet Laureate of Illinois (1968) and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1985), both high honors.
Over the course of her life, Brooks wrote 24 published books of poetry, including the celebrated work We Real Cool (1966) and five nonfiction titles.
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
To read more of Gwendolyn Brooks' poetry, see Related Links, below.
Who was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music?
In 1970, Charles Wuorinen became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Time's Encomium. He was 32 years old.
How many African-Americans have won the Pulitzer Prize for photography?
At least four, and possibly more. It's difficult to determine the ethnic heritage of many winners.
1969 Moneta Sleet, Jr., Deep Sorrow, Photography
1982 John H. White, Journalism, Feature Photography
1988 Michel duCille, Journalism, Feature Photography
1998 Clarence Williams, Journalism, Feature Photography
Which of Alice Walker's poems won a Pulitzer Prize?
None of Alice Walkers poetry has earned a Pulitzer Prize, although it may have won other awards. Walker's only Pulitzer is the one she received in 1983 for her book, The Color Purple.
What Charles Ives symphony won a Pulitzer Prize?
Charles Ives' Symphony No. 3 won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Who was the first Indian to receive a Pulitzer Prize in 1937?
Gobind Behari Lal, a reporter for Universal Service, was the first Indian to win a Pulitzer Prize. He shared the 1937 award for Reporting with John J. O'Neill (New York Herald Tribune), William L. Laurence (The New York Times), Howard W. Blakeslee (Associated Press) and David Dietz (Scripps-Howard News Service) for their coverage of science at the tercentenary (300th Anniversary) of Harvard University.
Lal later became Science Editor (emeritus) for Hearst newspapers, and continued publishing until a few weeks before his death from cancer at age 92.
How many people have won the Nobel Prize?
Between 1901 and 2011, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 549 times.
Who are all the African-American Pulitzer Prize winners?
African-American Pulitzer Prize-winners
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen, Poetry
1969 Moneta Sleet, Jr., Deep Sorrow, Photography
1970 Charles Gordone, No Place to be Somebody, Drama
1976 Scott Joplin, (posthumous), Special Citation, Music
1977 Alex Haley, Roots, Special Citation
1978 James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room, Fiction
1982 Charles Fuller, A Soldiers Play, Drama
1982 John H. White, Journalism, Feature Photography
1983 Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Fiction
1984 Norman Lockman, Journalism (shared), Investigative Reporting
1984 Kirk Scharfenberg, Journalism (shared), Investigative Reporting
1987 Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah, Poetry
1987 August Wilson, Fences, Drama
1988 Michel duCille, Journalism, Feature Photography
1988 Toni Morrison, Beloved, Fiction
1989 Clarence Page, Journalism, Commentary
1990 August Wilson, The Piano Lesson, Drama
1994 William Raspberry, Journalism, Commentary
1994 Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular, Poetry
1994 Isabel Wilkerson, Journalism, Feature Writing
1994 David Levering Lewis, W E B Du Bois: 1868-1919, Biography
1996 E.R. Shipp, Journalism, Commentary
1996 George Walker, Lilacs for…Orchestra, Music
1997 Wynton Marsalis, Blood on the Fields, Music
1998 Clarence Williams, Journalism, Feature Photography
1999 Duke Ellington (posthumous), Special Citation, Music
2001 David Levering Lewis, W E B Du Bois: 1919-1963, Biography
2001 Gerald Boyd, Journalism (shared), National Reporting
2002 Suzan-Lori Parks, Top Dog/Under Dog, Drama
2003 Colbert I. King, Journalism (columnist), Commentary
2004 Leonard Pitts, Journalism, Commentary
2004 Edward P Jones, The Known World, Fiction
2005 Dele Olojede, Journalism, International Reporting
2006 Thelonius Monk, (posthumous), Special Citation
2006 Trymaine Lee, Journalism (shared), Breaking News
2006 Robin Givham, Journalism, Criticism
2006 Irwin Thompson, Journalism (shared), Breaking News
2007 Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, Poetry
2007 Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar, Music
2007 John Coltrane, (posthumous), Special Citation
2007 Quinton Smith, Journalism (shared), Breaking News
2007 Cynthia Tucker, Journalism, Commentary
2009 Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, History
2009 Eugene Robinson, Journalism, Commentary
2009 Lynn Nottage, Ruined, Drama
2012 Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars, Poetry
* Despite exhaustive database diving, this list is probably not inclusive.
Where is the Pulitzer Prize winning picture of Langley Collyer?
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nathaniel (Nat) Fein's photograph of Langley Collyer does not appear to be online (or isn't credited correctly), but purportedly can be viewed in a retrospective book of his work, The Fein Story Behind the Pictures: A Revealing Look at the Famous Images of Pulitzer Prize Photographer Nat Fein by David Nieves (see Related Links).
You can read more about the Collyer brothers and view some photographs (although not what you're looking for) on The Bell Curve of Life Blog, also accessible via Related Links, below.
How many Pulitzer Prizes did Thornton Wilder win in his lifetime?
Thornton Wilder won a total of three Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime: two for Drama and one for a Novel.
Thornton Wilder
1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (novel)
1938: Our Town (drama)
1943: The Skin of Our Teeth (drama)
Robert Frost
When did Moneta Sleet Jr win the Pulitzer Prize?
Moneta Sleet, Jr., the first African-American photographer and second African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize, won the 1969 award in Feature Photography for "Deep Sorrow." Sleet captured a powerful image of Dr. Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and one of their children at King's funeral. The photograph was originally published in Ebony.
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What is the name of a play by roger hall?
Some plays by New Zealand playwright Roger Hall: Fifty Fifty, Hot Water, Middle Age Spread, Spreading Out, State of the Play, The Share Club, Glide Time, The Book Club, Social Climbers, Love Off the Shelf, Take a Chance on Me, A Way of Life, Footrot Flats, Dirty Weekends, BY Degrees, C'mon Black, Taking Off.
Which titles have won the Pulitzer Prize for History?
2011 The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
2010 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
2009 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008 What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2007 The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2006 Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
2005 Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2004 A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
2003 An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943by Rick Atkinson
2002 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in Americaby Louis Menand
2001 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2000 Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
1999 Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
1998 Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
1997 Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1996 William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
1995 No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1994 (No Award)
1993 The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1992 The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely
1991 A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1990 In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1989 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
1989 Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
1988 The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876by Robert V. Bruce
1987 Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1986 The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
1985 Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
1984 (No Award)
1983 The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
1982 Mary Chesnut's Civil War edited by C. Vann Woodward
1981 American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
1980 Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
1979 The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1978 The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler
1977 The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter
1976 Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1975 Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone
1974 The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1973 People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
1972 Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
1971 Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1970 Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson
1969 Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
1968 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolutionby Bernard Bailyn
1967 Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1966 The Life of the Mind in America by the late Perry Miller
1965 The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
1964 Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Townby Sumner Chilton Powell
1963 Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1962 The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
1961 Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
1960 In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1959 The Republican Era: l869-1901 by Leonard D. White
1958 Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1957 Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan
1956 The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
1955 Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
1954 A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
1953 The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
1952 The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
1951 The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley
1950 Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
1949 The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
1948 Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto
1947 Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd
1946 The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
1945 Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal
1944 The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
1943 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
1942 Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech
1941 The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen
1940 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
1939 A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott
1938 The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck
1937 The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
1936 A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin
1935 The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews
1934 The People's Choice by Herbert Agar
1933 The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner
1932 My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing
1931 The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
1930 The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne
1929 The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon
1928 Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington
1927 Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1926 A History of the United States by Edward Channing
1925 History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson
1924 The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain
1923 The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
1922 The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
1921 The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
1920 The War with Mexico, 2 vols. by Justin H. Smith
1919 (No Award)
1918 A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand
What Stephen Sondheim musical that won Pulitzer Prize for drama?
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for their musical, Sunday in the Park With George.
