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2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83
1998 William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78 1997 Leon Edel, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 89 1995 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88 1994 Lewis B Puller, U.S. writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48 1993 William Randolph Hearst, U.S. newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85 1993 John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 1992 Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1992 William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84 1992 Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84 1992 William H Schuman, U.S. composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at 81 1991 Vaughn Shoemaker, U.S. cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies 1991 Howard Nemerow, U.S. poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies 1991 James Schuyler, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies 1991 Clark Mollenhoff, U.S. journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies 1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" 1987 August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama 1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences" 1986 Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71 1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove" 1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin" 1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" 1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate 1983 Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" 1983 Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" 1982 John Cheever, U.S. writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70 1982 John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining 1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike for 'Rabbit is Rich' 1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76 1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story 1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" 1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) 1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song) 1979 Elizabeth Bishop, poet (North and South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" 1978 James G Cozzens, U.S. writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74 1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" 1978 Phyllis McGinley, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72 1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize 1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box" 1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) 1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) 1974 Anne Sexton, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45 1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) 1973 Conrad Aiken, U.S. poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74 1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) 1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) 1972 Marianne Moore, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84 1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) 1970 Rube Goldberg, U.S. cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87 1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) 1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) 1968 Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73 1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner) 1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) 1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days) 1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) 1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) 1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) 1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) 1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72 1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird 1960 H L Davis, U.S. writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64 1960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent) 1959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish 1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) 1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) 1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick 1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) 1952 Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993 1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) 1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) 1951 Roxanne Pulitzer, born in Glendale California, author, Prize Pulitzer 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry 1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific) 1949 Shulamit Ran, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, composer, second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, for Symphony, 1990 1949 James T Adams, U.S. historian (Pulitzer 1921) 1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams 1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson) 1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) 1945 August Wilson, U.S., playwright, Fences, Pulitzer 1987 1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) 1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) 1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) 1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) 1941 George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 1941 Stephen Albert, born in New York City, New York, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto' 1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) 1939 Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48 1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) 1939 Ellen Taafe Zwilich, born in Miami, Florida, 1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982 1938 Charles Wuorinen, New York City, composer, Pulitzer 1980 1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town) 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" 1937 David Del Tredici, born in Cloverdale, California, composer, 1980 Pulitzer 1936 Larry McMurtry, U.S. scriptwriter, Lonesome Dove, Pulitzer 1986 1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) 1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) 1934 Roger Reynolds, born in Detroit, Michigan, composer, professor, University of California at San Diego, founder, ONCE Group, won Pulitzer Prize 1989 1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) 1934 David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War 1934 [Navarre] Scott Momaday, U.S. author, House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969 1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) 1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth) 1932 John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy 1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) 1929 George H Crumb, Charleston, West Virginia, composer, Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time 1929 Robert Coles, Milton Massachusetts, author, Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973 1929 David S Broder, born in Chicago Hgts, Illinois, journalist, Pulitzer 1973 1929 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) 1928 Anne Sexton, Newton Massachusetts, poet, Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967 1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) 1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) 1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) 1925 Carolyn Ashley Kizer, U.S. writer, Yin, Pulitzer 1985 1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big" 1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) 1923 Paul F Conrad, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, cartoonist, Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84 1923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours) 1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize 1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) 1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon 1920 John La Montaine, born in Oak Park, Illinois, composer, Pulitzer 1959 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers 1918 Allen Drury, author, Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize 1917 "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City 1917 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient 1917 Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. poet, Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950 1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) 1914 Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize 1912 John Toland, U.S., political writer, Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971 1912 Studs Terkel, born in New York, author, historian, broadcaster, Pulitzer Prize winner 1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer 1912 Barbara Tuchman, U.S., historian/author, Pulitzer, Guns of August 1911 Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC 1911 Gian Carlo Menotti, born in Italy, composer, librettist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1911 Elizabeth Bishop, U.S. poet, North and South, Pulitzer Prize, 1956 1907 Leon Edel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, wrote on James Joyce, taught literature at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia University 1905 Phyllis McGinley, U.S., poet, Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters 1903 Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes 1895 Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids, Michigan, composer, Pulitzer 1946 1891 Sidney Coe Howard, U.S., dramatist, Swords, Pulitzer 1925 1887 Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet, Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems 1884 Sara Teasdale, U.S., poet, 1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-Love Songs 1878 Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St. Louis Dispatch" 1878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1871 Vernon Louis Parrington, author, Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928 1870 John McClutcheon, cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-1931 1868 William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas, editor, Pulitzer 1942 1847 Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World |
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