2014 Event 'The Washington Post' and 'The Guardian' win the Pulitzer Prize for reporting of surveillance programs by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA); the investigations relied on thousands of documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor 2012 Event In an attempt to encourage people to buy from their local bookstores, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo boycotts e-books 2012 Event Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, dies at 43 of an acute asthma attack 2000 Death Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83 1998 Death William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78 1997 Death Leon Edel, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 89 1995 Death Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88 1994 Death Lewis B Puller, U.S. writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48 1993 Death William Randolph Hearst, U.S. newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85 1993 Death John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 1992 Death 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 Death William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84 1992 Death Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84 1992 Death William H Schuman, U.S. composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at 81 1991 Death Vaughn Shoemaker, U.S. cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies 1991 Death Howard Nemerow, U.S. poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies 1991 Death James Schuyler, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies 1991 Death Clark Mollenhoff, U.S. journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies 1988 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" 1987 Event August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama 1987 Event Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1987 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences" 1986 Death Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71 1986 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove" 1985 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin" 1984 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" 1984 Event Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate 1983 Event Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" 1983 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" 1982 Death John Cheever, U.S. writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70 1982 Death John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining 1982 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike for 'Rabbit is Rich' 1982 Death Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76 1981 Event Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story 1981 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" 1981 Event Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) 1980 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song) 1979 Death Elizabeth Bishop, poet (North and South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 1979 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" 1978 Death James G Cozzens, U.S. writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74 1978 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" 1978 Death Phyllis McGinley, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72 1977 Event Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize 1977 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box" 1976 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) 1975 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) 1974 Death Anne Sexton, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45 1974 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) 1973 Death Conrad Aiken, U.S. poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74 1973 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) 1972 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) 1972 Death Marianne Moore, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84 1971 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) 1970 Death Rube Goldberg, U.S. cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87 1970 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) 1969 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) 1968 Death Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73 1968 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner) 1967 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) 1966 Event Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days) 1965 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) 1964 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) 1963 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) 1962 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) 1961 Death George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72 1961 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird 1960 Death H L Davis, U.S. writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64 1960 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent) 1959 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish 1958 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) 1957 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) 1956 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 1955 Event Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1954 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick 1953 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) 1952 Birthday Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993 1952 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) 1951 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) 1951 Birthday Roxanne Pulitzer, born in Glendale California, author, Prize Pulitzer 1950 Event Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry 1950 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific) 1949 Birthday Shulamit Ran, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, composer, second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, for Symphony, 1990 1949 Death James T Adams, U.S. historian (Pulitzer 1921) 1949 Event Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" 1948 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams 1947 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 1946 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson) 1945 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) 1945 Birthday August Wilson, U.S., playwright, Fences, Pulitzer 1987 1944 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) 1943 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) 1942 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) 1941 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) 1941 Birthday George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 1941 Birthday 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 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) 1939 Death Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48 1939 Event Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) 1939 Birthday Ellen Taafe Zwilich, born in Miami, Florida, 1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982 1938 Birthday Charles Wuorinen, New York City, composer, Pulitzer 1980 1938 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town) 1937 Event Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Gone With the Wind' 1937 Birthday David Del Tredici, born in Cloverdale, California, composer, 1980 Pulitzer 1936 Birthday Larry McMurtry, U.S. scriptwriter, Lonesome Dove, Pulitzer 1986 1936 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) 1935 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) 1934 Birthday Roger Reynolds, born in Detroit, Michigan, composer, professor, University of California at San Diego, founder, ONCE Group, won Pulitzer Prize 1989 1934 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) 1934 Birthday David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War 1934 Birthday [Navarre] Scott Momaday, U.S. author, House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969 1933 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) 1932 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth) 1932 Birthday John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 1931 Event Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy 1930 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) 1929 Birthday George H Crumb, Charleston, West Virginia, composer, Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time 1929 Birthday Robert Coles, Milton Massachusetts, author, Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973 1929 Birthday David S Broder, born in Chicago Hgts, Illinois, journalist, Pulitzer 1973 1929 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) 1928 Birthday Anne Sexton, Newton Massachusetts, poet, Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967 1928 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) 1927 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) 1926 Event Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" 1926 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) 1925 Birthday Carolyn Ashley Kizer, U.S. writer, Yin, Pulitzer 1985 1925 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big" 1924 Event Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) 1923 Birthday Paul F Conrad, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, cartoonist, Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84 1923 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours) 1922 Event "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize 1922 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) 1920 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon 1920 Birthday John La Montaine, born in Oak Park, Illinois, composer, Pulitzer 1959 1919 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers 1918 Birthday Allen Drury, author, Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize 1917 Event "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City 1917 Birthday Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient 1917 Birthday Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. poet, Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950 1917 Event 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) 1914 Birthday Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize 1912 Birthday John Toland, U.S., political writer, Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971 1912 Birthday Studs Terkel, born in New York, author, historian, broadcaster, Pulitzer Prize winner 1912 Event Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer 1912 Birthday Barbara Tuchman, U.S., historian/author, Pulitzer, Guns of August 1911 Death Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC 1911 Birthday Gian Carlo Menotti, born in Italy, composer, librettist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1911 Birthday Elizabeth Bishop, U.S. poet, North and South, Pulitzer Prize, 1956 1907 Birthday 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 Birthday Phyllis McGinley, U.S., poet, Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters 1903 Event Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes 1895 Birthday Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids, Michigan, composer, Pulitzer 1946 1891 Birthday Sidney Coe Howard, U.S., dramatist, Swords, Pulitzer 1925 1887 Birthday Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet, Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems 1884 Birthday Sara Teasdale, U.S., poet, 1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-Love Songs 1878 Event Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St. Louis Dispatch" 1878 Event Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1871 Birthday Vernon Louis Parrington, author, Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928 1870 Birthday John McClutcheon, cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-1931 1868 Birthday William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas, editor, Pulitzer 1942 1847 Birthday Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World
