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

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