Pulitzer Prize: Facts & Related Content

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Facts

Notable Honorees

John F. Kennedy • George Gershwin • Bob Dylan • Eugene O’Neill • William Faulkner • Robert Frost • Ernest Hemingway • Henry Adams • W. H. Auden • Margaret Mitchell • Duke Ellington • E.O. Wilson • Frederick Jackson Turner • John J. Pershing • Ray Bradbury • Charles Lindbergh • Upton Sinclair • Aaron Copland • John Coltrane • Samantha Power • Joshua Logan • Marilynne Robinson • John Adams • Yusef Komunyakaa • Carl Sagan • Charles Ives • Tennessee Williams • Tracy Letts • Art Spiegelman • Edith Wharton • Stephen Greenblatt • Hank Williams • Roger Ebert • Studs Terkel • Norman Mailer • David Mamet • Stephen Sondheim • Robert Caro • Sam Shepard • August Wilson • Michael Chabon • Marvin Hamlisch • W.S. Merwin • Saul Bellow • John Steinbeck • Garry Wills • Willa Cather • John Cheever • John Updike • Elliott Carter • George F. Kennan • Edward Albee • Robert Lowell • Charles Wright • Pearl S. Buck • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Toni Morrison • Harper Lee • Gian Carlo Menotti • James Agee • Alice Walker • Larry McMurtry • Sylvia Plath • Gunther Schuller • Seymour Hersh • Dean Acheson • Erik Erikson • Robert Penn Warren • Arthur Miller • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich • Steve Reich • Siddhartha Mukherjee • Ornette Coleman • Barbara Tuchman • Zhou Long • Elizabeth Bishop • Gary Snyder • Thornton Wilder • Donna Tartt • Samuel Barber • Annie Proulx • Robert Schenkkan • James Merrill • Philip Roth • Katherine Anne Porter • Eudora Welty • Kendrick Lamar • James Michener • Susan Glaspell • Wallace Stevens • Garry Trudeau • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Anna Quindlen • Maxine Kumin • Thomas L. Friedman • Jhumpa Lahiri • David McCullough • Kay Ryan • Richard Rodgers • Allan Nevins • Carlos P. Romulo • John T. McCutcheon • Lisel Mueller • Bernard Malamud • Mark Van Doren • Annie Baker • Roger Sessions • Edwin Arlington Robinson • David Hackett Fischer • William Styron • Scott Joplin • Dean Baquet • Archibald MacLeish • Cormac McCarthy • Marc Connelly • Conrad Aiken • Marianne Moore • Suzan-Lori Parks • C. Vann Woodward • Wallace Stegner • Ellen Glasgow • Amy Lowell • Zona Gale • Gwendolyn Brooks • John McPhee • Paul Muldoon • William Bolcom • C.K. Williams • Jules Feiffer • Thelonious Monk • Tony Kushner • Anne Elizabeth O’Hare McCormick • Mona Van Duyn • Carol Shields • Natasha Trethewey • William Sowden Sims • Robert Hass • Anthony Hecht • Robert E. Sherwood • Louise Glück • James Alan McPherson • E.B. White • George S. Kaufman • Carl Sandburg • Ada Louise Huxtable • John Berryman • Philip Levine • Tracy K. Smith • David Halberstam • Stephen Vincent Benét • Russell Baker • Alex Haley • Neil Simon • Edna Ferber • Oscar Hijuelos • Daniel J. Boorstin • Bill Mauldin • Jorie Graham • Anne Sexton • Richard Ford • Hamlin Garland • Jennifer Egan • William Saroyan • Frank Loesser • John Corigliano • John Ashbery • Louis Simpson • Frank Bidart • Charles Simic • Van Wyck Brooks • Lanford Wilson • Phyllis McGinley • Frank McCourt • Virgil Thomson • Stanley Kunitz • William Carlos Williams • John Hersey • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Sara Teasdale • William Meredith • Jane Smiley • William Schuman • Katharine Graham • Mary Oliver • Theodore H. White • Rita Dove • Leon Edel • Anne Tyler • Justin Kaplan • Jean Stafford • Howard Nemerov • Charles Fuller • Ernst Toch • Arthur B. Krock • James Reston • Oscar Hammerstein II • Peter Taylor • N. Scott Momaday • Edward Bok

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