Pulitzer Prize Winners Chronology

Births, deaths, defining moments of Pulitzer Prize winners

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1847
Apr 09Joseph Pulitzer publisher: St. Louis Dispatch, New York World; died in 1911: his will left $2 million for establishment of school of journalism at Columbia Univ. and a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism; is born in Mako, Hungary.Ref: 68
1862
Jan 24Edith Wharton (Jones), US, Pulitzer Prize winning author: The Age of Innocence [1921]; is born.Ref: 5
1868
Feb 10William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942), is born.Ref: 5
1869
Jul 29Booth Tarkington Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Magnificent Ambersons [1919], Alice Adams [1922]; is born.Ref: 4
Dec 22Edwin Arlington Robinson (Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1922], The Man Who Died Twice [1925], Tristram [1928]; Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy) is born.Ref: 4
1870
Apr 17Ray Stannard Baker US, journalist (Puliter Prize 1940), is born.Ref: 5
May 06John McClutcheon cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931), is born.Ref: 5
1871
Aug 03Vernon Louis Parrington critic/educator/author (Pulitzer 1928), is born.Ref: 5
1873
Apr 22Ellen Anderson Glasgow US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 06Willa (Sibert) Cather Pulitzer Prize-Winning author: One of Ours [1923]; O Pioneers!, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Alexander’s Bridge; died Apr 24, 1947Ref: 4
Dec 07Willa (Sibert) Cather Pulitzer Prize-Winning author: One of Ours [1923]; O Pioneers!, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Alexander’s Bridge; is born.Ref: 4
1874
Feb 09Amy Lowell Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: What’s O’Clock [1926]; Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds; is born.Ref: 4
Mar 26Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is born in San Francisco.Ref: 68
Oct 20Charles Ives Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: The Third Symphony [Camp Meeting]: 1947; The Concord Sonata; author: Essays Before A Sonata; is born in Danbury CT.Ref: 4
1878
Jan 06Carl Sandburg US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes), 3-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 18James Truslow Adams historian (Pul-1921-Founding of New England), is born.Ref: 5
1879
Oct 02Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1955]; is born in Reading PA.Ref: 4
1882
Jan 05Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist and editor, Pulitzer Prize winner (1917), is born.Ref: 70
1883
Jul 04Rube (Reuben Lucius) Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist famous for his cartoons of ludicrously complex inventions designed to accomplish the simplest tasks, is born.Ref: 2
Sep 17William Carlos Williams, American physician, poet, novelist and short story writer, won a Pulitzer prize for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems, is born.Ref: 70
1884
Aug 08Sara Teasdale US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs"), is born.Ref: 5
1885
Sep 10Carl Van Doren, historian and critic who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography on Benjamin Franklin, is born.Ref: 2
1886
May 16Douglas Southall Freeman, journalist, historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, is born.Ref: 2
1887
Nov 15Marianne Moore St Louis, poet (Pulitzer-1951-Collected Poems), is born.Ref: 5
1889
Aug 05Conrad Aiken Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Selected Poems [1930]; is born.Ref: 4
1890
May 15Katherine Anne Porter US, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Ship of Fools), is born.Ref: 5
1892
Feb 22Edna St Vincent Millay poet/writer/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize), is born in Rockland Maine.Ref: 5
May 07Archibald MacLeish Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Conquistador [1933], Collected Poems, 1917-1952 [1953]; U.S. Librarian of Congress; is born in Glencoe IL.Ref: 4
Sep 28Elmer Rice, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Street Scene [prize for drama: 1929]; is born.Ref: 4
1894
Mar 17Paul Eliot Green Pulitzer prize-winning playwright of symphonic drama: In Abraham’s Bosom [1926], The Lost Colony, The Common Glory, The House of Connelly, Hymn to the Rising Sun; is born.Ref: 4
Oct 26John S. (Shively) Knight Pulitzer Prize-winning [Editor’s Notebook: 1968] reporter, editor, is born.Ref: 4
1895
May 01Leo Sowerby Grand Rapids MI, composer (Pulitzer 1946), is born.Ref: 5
1896
Oct 28Howard Hanson, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Symphony No. 4 [1944]; George Foster Peabody Award [1946]; Laurel Leaf of the American Composers Alliance [1957]; Huntington Hartford Foundation Award [1959]; Priz de Rome [1921]; president: Eastman School of Music; is born in Wahoo NE.Ref: 4
Nov 25Virgil Thompson, American composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All), is born in Kansas City, MO.Ref: 2
1897
Apr 17Thornton Wilder Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: The Bridge of San Luis Rey [1928] and playwright: Our Town [1938], The Skin of Our Teeth [1943]; died Dec 7, 1975Ref: 68
1898
Jul 22Stephen Vincent Benét, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, is born.Ref: 4
1900
Aug 03Ernie Pyle journalist: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter [1944]: reports of 1940 London bombings and war reports from Africa, Italy and France; managing editor: Washington Daily News; is born.Ref: 4
Nov 08Margaret Mitchell Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Gone with the Wind [1937]; is born.Ref: 4
Nov 14Aaron Copland Academy Award-winning composer and Pulitzer Prize-winner, is born in Brooklyn NY.Ref: 4
1903
Mar 17Marquis (William) Childs Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist [1969]: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, author: Sweden: The Middie Way; is born.Ref: 4
Aug 19James Gould Cozzens, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Guard of Honor [1948]; S.S. San Pedro, The Last Adam, By Love Possessed; is born.Ref: 4
1904
Feb 04MacKinlay Kantor Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Andersonville [1956]; Long Remember, Gettysburg, Signal Thirty-Two, is born in Webster City IA.Ref: 4
Mar 02Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) Pulitzer Prize-winning author [1984]: The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham; is born in Springfield MA.Ref: 68
1905
Mar 21Phyllis McGinley US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 24Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: All the King’s Men [1947], poet: Promises:Poems, 1954-1956 [1958], Now and Then:Poems, 1976-1978 [1979]; first official poet laureate of U.S.; is born.Ref: 4
Sep 25Red (Walter) Smith Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter [NY Times: 1976], is born in Green Bay WI.Ref: 4
1906
Oct 22Sidney Kingsley author (Darkness at Noon), is born.Ref: 5
1907
Feb 21W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden Pulitzer Prize-winning US poet: The Age of Anxiety [1948]; Poems, The Orators, an English Study, The Dog Beneath the Skin, Look, Stranger!, The Double Man, Nones, Enchafed Flood, Forewords and Afterwords, Thanksgiving for a Habitat; Bollingen Poetry Prize [1954]; National Medal for Literature [1967]; is born.Ref: 17
Feb 25Mary Coyle Chase playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize), is born.Ref: 5
1908
Aug 31William Saroyan Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: The Time of Your Life [1940]; The Human Comedy; is born.Ref: 4
Nov 14Harrison Salisbury, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for International Reporting [1955]; Moscow correspondent for NY Times, is born.Ref: 4
1909
Feb 18Wallace Stegner novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 13Eudora Welty, Jackson MS, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 13Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block), multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, is born.Ref: 2
Nov 27James Agee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (A Death in the Family), is born.Ref: 2
1910
Jun 20Josephine Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Jordanstown, Wildwood), is born.Ref: 2
Aug 04William Schuman Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Secular Cantata No. 2, A Free Song [1943]; President: Julliard School of Music, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; died Feb 15, 1992Ref: 4
1911
Feb 08Elizabeth Bishop US poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 26Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams Pulitzer prize-winning playwright: A Streetcar Named Desire [1948], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1955]; The Glass Menagerie, Night of the Iguana, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth, Small Craft Warnings; is born in Columbus MS.Ref: 4
Jul 07Gian Carlo Menotti Pulitzer prize-winning opera composer: The Consul [1950], The Saint of Bleeker Street [1955], is born.Ref: 4
Oct 29Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC.Ref: 68
1912
Jan 30Barbara Tuchman US, historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 29John Toland Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Rising Sun [1970], is born.Ref: 4
1913
May 03William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 08Walter Kerr Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic, playwright and director is born.Ref: 4
Dec 10Morton Gould Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Stringmusic [1995]; Fall River Legend, Billion Dollar Baby; film score: Delightfully Dangerous; is born in Richmond Hill NY.Ref: 4
1914
Apr 26Bernard Malamud Brooklyn NY, novelist (Fixer, The Natural Pulitizer 1967), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 30Vermont Royster, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, editor: The Wall Street Journal; columnist: Thinking Things Over; author: Journey through the Soviet Union, A Pride of Prejudices, My Own, My Country’s Time: A Journalist’s Journey; is born.Ref: 4
Oct 01Daniel Boorstin author (1974 Pulitzer Prize), is born.Ref: 5
1915
Oct 17Arthur Miller, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge), is born.Ref: 2
1917
Mar 01Robert Lowell, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Lord Weary’s Castle [1947], The Dolphin [1974]; National Book Award for Poetry [1960]; is born.Ref: 4
Jun 07Gwendolyn Brooks Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Annie Allen [1950]; is born.Ref: 4
Jun 16Katharine Graham publisher: The Washington Post; won Pulitzer Prize for her memoir, Personal History [1998]; is born.Ref: 4
Oct 15Arthur Schlesinger Jr historian/author (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 16Murray Kempton Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman; is born.Ref: 4
1918
Sep 02Allen Drury author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize), is born.Ref: 5
1920
Feb 29Howard Nemerov Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Collected Works [1978]; 3rd poet laureate of U.S. [1988-1990], is born.Ref: 4
Mar 17John La Montaine Oak Park IL, composer (Pulitzer 1959), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 04Maggie Higgins, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1951) for international reporting, for her work in Korean war zones.Ref: 2
1921
Mar 01Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator, is born.Ref: 2
Mar 01Howard Nemerov, writer, another Pulitzer Prize recipient, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep), is born.Ref: 2
Jun 22Joseph Papp (Papirofsky) Pulitzer Prize-winning [3] producer; also winner of 28 Tony awards and 6 NY Critics Circle Awards; over 400 productions including: Hair, A Chorus Line, Two Gentlemen of Verona, That Championship Season; is born.Ref: 4
Aug 11Alex Haley Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Roots [1977]; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Queen; is born.Ref: 4
Oct 29William Henry Mauldin US, political cartoonist who created G.I. Joe and Willie (Pulitzer-1945, 59), is born.Ref: 5
1923
Jan 31Norman Mailer Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: The Armies of the Night; Miami and the Siege of Chicago, The Executioner’s Song, The Naked and the Dead, An American Dream, is born.Ref: 4
Mar 27Louis Simpson, Pultizer Prize-winning Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 27Paul F Conrad Cedar Rapids IA, cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 23Ned Rorem Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Air Music [1976], is born in Richmond IN.Ref: 4
1924
Apr 10David Halberstam NY Times intl correspondant (Pulitzer 1964), is born.Ref: 5
1925
May 12Amy Lowell Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: What’s O’Clock [1926]; Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds; dies at age 51.Ref: 4
Oct 20Art Buchwald Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist [prize for commentary: 1982]; author, is born in Mt Vernon NY.Ref: 4
Dec 10Carolyn Ashley Kizer US writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985), is born.Ref: 5
1926
Jan 05W.D. Snodgrass poet: Heart’s Needle, The Fuhrer Bunker, The Complete Cycle, April Inventory, Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry in 1960, is born.Ref: 4
Mar 03James Ingram Merrill, US Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Divine Comedies), is born.Ref: 2
Apr 28Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird), is born.Ref: 2
1927
Jul 04Neil (Marvin) Simon Tony Award-winning playwright: The Odd Couple [1965], Lost in Yonkers [and Pulitzer Prize: 1991]; The Sunshine Boys, Barefoot in the Park, The Goodbye Girl, CA Suite, Plaza Suite, Seems like Old Times, Prisoner of Second Avenue, is born.Ref: 4
Jul 28John Ashbery, Pultizer Prize-winning poet (Self-Portrait in a Convict's Mirror), is born.Ref: 2
Sep 30W.S. Mervin, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is born.Ref: 2
1928
Mar 12Edward Albee Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: A Delicate Balance [1967], Seascape [1974], Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is born Washington DC.Ref: 4
1929
Jan 26Jules Feiffer Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist [1986]; scriptwriter: Carnal Knowledge, Little Murders, Popeye, is born.Ref: 4
Jul 08Shirley Ann Grau Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Keepers of the House [1965]; The Black Prince and Other Stories, is born.Ref: 4
Sep 11David S Broder Chicago Hgts Ill, journalist (1973 Pulitzer Prize), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 12Robert Coles Milton Mass, author (Pulitzer 1973), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 24George Crumb Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 19Howard Sackler Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Great White Hope [1969]; Fear and Desire, Jaws 2; is born.Ref: 4
1931
May 16Donald James Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974), is born.Ref: 5
1933
Apr 25J. Anthony Lukas Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families; is born.Ref: 4
1934
Feb 27[Navarre] Scott Momaday US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 10David Halberstam, New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964, is born.Ref: 2
1935
Apr 06Edwin Arlington Robinson (Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1922], The Man Who Died Twice [1925], Tristram [1928]; Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy) dies.Ref: 4
Sep 10Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is born.Ref: 2
1937
Mar 16David Del Tredici, Cloverdale CA, composer (1980 Pulitzer), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 11Edith Wharton (Jones), US, Pulitzer Prize winning author: The Age of Innocence [1921]; dies.Ref: 4
1938
Jun 09Charles Wuorinen NYC, composer (Pulitzer 1980), is born.Ref: 5
1939
Apr 22Jason Miller Scranton PA, actor/writer (Exorcist, Light of Day), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 30Ellen Taafe Zwilich Miami FL, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982), is born.Ref: 5
1940
Oct 21Frances Fitzgerald Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in VietnamRef: 4
1941
Apr 11Ellen Goodman, Pultizer Prize-winning columnist, is born.Ref: 2
May 04George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist: syndicated in some 460 papers, Newsweek; Washington editor: National Review; contributing analyst: ABC-TV News: World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, This Week, is born.Ref: 4
1943
Apr 22Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is born.Ref: 2
1944
Jan 29William Allen White Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942), dies at age 75.Ref: 70
Feb 09Alice Walker, Pulitzer prize winning author (The Color Purple), is born.Ref: 2
Feb 16Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (The Sportswriter, Independence Day), is born.Ref: 2
1945
Apr 18Ernie Pyle, 44, journalist: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter [1944]: reports of 1940 London bombings and war reports from Africa, Italy and France; managing editor: Washington Daily News; killed by sniper’s bullet on Ie Shima, small island off Okinawa, April 18, 1945;Ref: 4
Apr 27August Wilson US, playwright (Fences, Pulitzer 1987), is born.Ref: 5
1946
May 19Booth Tarkington Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Magnificent Ambersons [1919], Alice Adams [1922]; dies at age 76.Ref: 4
1947
Apr 24Willa (Sibert) Cather, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author: One of Ours [1923]; O Pioneers!, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Alexander’s Bridge; dies.Ref: 4
Sep 21Marsha Norman Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: ’Night Mother [1983], is born.Ref: 4
Nov 30David Mamet director: Oleanna, Homicide, House of Games, Things Change; playwright: Hoffa, Glengarry Glen Ross (Pulitzer-1984), The Untouchables, The Verdict, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is born.Ref: 68
1948
Feb 15Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist (Pulitzer-1992), is born in Stockholm, Sweden.Ref: 68
1949
May 18James T Adams US historian (Pulitzer 1921), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 10John McClutcheon cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931), dies at age 79.Ref: 70
Aug 16Margaret Mitchell, American writer who found success in her first and only novel, Gone With the Wind, dies.Ref: 4
1950
Jul 18Carl Van Doren, historian and critic who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography on Benjamin Franklin, dies at age 64.Ref: 2
Oct 19Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and dramatist, dies.Ref: 70
1952
May 08Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Crimes of the Heart).Ref: 2
Aug 28Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.Ref: 2
1954
May 11Charles Ives Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: The Third Symphony [Camp Meeting]: 1947; The Concord Sonata; author: Essays Before A Sonata; dies at age 79.Ref: 68
May 19Charles Ives Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: The Third Symphony [Camp Meeting]: 1947; The Concord Sonata; author: Essays Before A Sonata; dies at age 79.Ref: 4
1955
May 16James Agee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (A Death in the Family), dies at age 45.Ref: 70
Aug 02Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1955]; dies at age 75.Ref: 4
1958
Jun 20Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist and editor, Pulitzer Prize winner (1917), dies at age 76.Ref: 70
1961
Jun 02George S Kaufman playwright/dir/Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 72.Ref: 5
1963
Jan 29Robert Frost four-time Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Birches, Mending Wall, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; read The Gift Outright at inauguration of John F. Kennedy; dies at age 88Ref: 68
1967
May 08Elmer Rice Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Street Scene [prize for drama: 1929]; dies at age 74.Ref: 4
Jul 22Carl Sandburg author: Abraham Lincoln; poet: Chicago, Grass, The People, Yes; folk balladeer: The American Songbag; three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, dies in Flat Rock, NC at age 89.Ref: 4
1968
Apr 16Edna Ferber (Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: So Big [1925]; Show Boat, Cimarron, Saratoga Trunk, Ice Palace, Giant, Dawn O’Hara; playwright [w/George Kaufman]: The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door, The Land is Bright, Bravo) dies at age 78.Ref: 4
Jul 07Leo Sowerby Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: The Canticle of the Sun [1946]; dies.Ref: 4
1969
Mar 26Writer John Kennedy Toole commits suicide at the age of 32. His mother helps get his first and only novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, published. It goes on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.Ref: 2
Mar 26Writer John Kennedy Toole commits suicide at the age of 32. His mother helps get his first and only novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, published. It goes on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.Ref: 2
1970
Dec 07Rube (Reuben Lucius) Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist famous for his cartoons of ludicrously complex inventions designed to accomplish the simplest tasks, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
1972
Feb 05Marianne Moore US poetess (Pulitzer-1951-Collected Poems), dies at 84.Ref: 5
1973
Jun 10William M Inge, American playwright; awarded Pulitzer Prize for "Picnic" in 1953, dies at age 60.Ref: 70
Aug 17Conrad Aiken Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Selected Poems [1930]; dies at age 84.Ref: 4
1975
Dec 07Thornton Wilder Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: The Bridge of San Luis Rey [1928] and playwright: Our Town [1938], The Skin of Our Teeth [1943]; dies at age 78.Ref: 68
1977
Sep 12Robert Lowell, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Lord Weary’s Castle [1947], The Dolphin [1974]; National Book Award for Poetry [1960]; dies at age 60.Ref: 4
Oct 11MacKinlay Kantor Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Andersonville [1956]; Long Remember, Gettysburg, Signal Thirty-Two; dies at age 73.Ref: 4
1978
Feb 22Phyllis McGinley, Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Times Three: Selected Verses from Three Decades [1961]; The Horse Who Lived Upstairs, Sugar and Spice, Saint-Watching, Sixpence in her Shoe; dies at age 72.Ref: 4
Aug 09James Gould Cozzens, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Guard of Honor [1948]; S.S. San Pedro, The Last Adam, By Love Possessed; dies at age 74.Ref: 4
1979
Oct 06Elizabeth Bishop, American poet/short story writer/Pulitzer Prize (1956), dies at age 68.Ref: 70
1980
Sep 18Katherine Anne Porter US, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Ship of Fools), dies.Ref: 4
1981
Feb 26Howard Hanson Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Symphony No. 4 [1944]; George Foster Peabody Award [1946]; Laurel Leaf of the American Composers Alliance [1957]; Huntington Hartford Foundation Award [1959]; Priz de Rome [1921]; president: Eastman School of Music; dies at age 84.Ref: 4
May 04Paul Green US, novelist/playwright (Pulitzer-1926 for "In Abraham's Bosom"), dies.Ref: 5
May 18William Saroyan Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: The Time of Your Life [1940]; The Human Comedy; dies.Ref: 4
Jun 16John S. (Shively) Knight Pulitzer Prize-winning [Editor’s Notebook: 1968] reporter, editor: The Akron Beacon Journal; publisher: Knight-Ridder newspaper empire; dies at age 86.Ref: 4
1982
Jan 15Red (Walter) Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter [NY Times: 1976]; dies at age 76.Ref: 4
Apr 20Archibald MacLeish Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Conquistador [1933], Collected Poems, 1917-1952 [1953]; U.S. Librarian of Congress; dies at age 89.Ref: 4
Oct 12Howard Sackler Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Great White Hope [1969]; Fear and Desire, Jaws 2; dies.Ref: 4
1986
Mar 18Bernard Malamud, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, dies at age 71Ref: 68
May 15Theodore H White US journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71.Ref: 5
1989
Feb 06Pulitzer Prize-winning (Guns of August) historian Barbara W. Tuchman dies in Greenwich, CT, at age 77.Ref: 70
Sep 15Robert Penn Warren Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: All the King’s Men [1947], poet: Promises:Poems, 1954-1956 [1958], Now and Then:Poems, 1976-1978 [1979]; first official poet laureate of U.S.; dies in Stratton, Vt., at age 84.Ref: 4
Sep 30Virgil Thomson Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Louisiana Story; music critic: NY Herald-Tribune [1940 to 1954]; dies.Ref: 4
1990
Dec 02Aaron Copland Academy Award-winning composer and Pulitzer Prize-winner, dies at age 90.Ref: 4
1991
Mar 02Clark Mollenhoff US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies.Ref: 5
Apr 12James Schuyler US poet (Pulitzer 1980), playwright and novelist, dies at age 67.Ref: 5
Sep 24Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) Pulitzer Prize-winning author [1984]: The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham; dies in La Jolla, CA., at age 87.Ref: 68
Oct 31Joseph Papp (Papirofsky) Pulitzer Prize-winning [3] producer; also winner of 28 Tony awards and 6 NY Critics Circle Awards; over 400 productions including: Hair, A Chorus Line, Two Gentlemen of Verona, That Championship Season; dies of cancer at age 70.Ref: 4
1992
Feb 10Alex Haley Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Roots [1977]; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Queen; dies at age 70.Ref: 4
Feb 15William H Schuman US composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at 81.Ref: 5
Apr 13Wallace Stegner novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84.Ref: 5
1993
Mar 24John Hersey Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78.Ref: 5
May 14William Randolph Hearst US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85.Ref: 5
Jul 05Harrison Salisbury, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for International Reporting [1955]; Moscow correspondent for NY Times, dies.Ref: 4
1994
May 11Lewis B Puller US writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48.Ref: 5
1995
Mar 20Sidney Kingsley US playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88.Ref: 5
1996
Feb 21Morton Gould Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Stringmusic [1995]; Fall River Legend, Billion Dollar Baby; film score: Delightfully Dangerous; dies.Ref: 4
Jul 22Vermont Royster Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, editor: The Wall Street Journal; columnist: Thinking Things Over; author: Journey through the Soviet Union, A Pride of Prejudices, My Own, My Country’s Time: A Journalist’s Journey; dies at age 82.Ref: 5
Oct 09Walter Kerr Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic, playwright and director dies.Ref: 4
1997
May 05Murray Kempton Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman; dies.Ref: 4
May 07Murray Kempton Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman; dies.Ref: 4
Jun 05J. Anthony Lukas Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families; dies.Ref: 4
1998
Feb 08William Lambert Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78Ref: 5
Sep 02Allen Drury Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Advise and Consent [1960]; dies.Ref: 4
1999
May 13Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist Meg Greenfield died in Washington at age 68.Ref: 70
2000
Jun 08Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jeff MacNally died in Baltimore, Maryland, at age 52. (TWA, 2001)Ref: 95
Dec 03Gwendolyn Brooks Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Annie Allen [1950]; We Real Cool, The Bean Eaters, Winnie, Coming Home; dies.Ref: 4
2001
May 13Jason Miller Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright: That Championship Season [1973]; actor: Mommy, Murdered Innocence, Small Kill, Light of Day, Toy Soldiers, Monsignor, The Exorcist series, The Ninth Configuration; dies.Ref: 4
Jul 23Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty dies in Jackson, MS, at age 92.Ref: 4
Oct 07Herbert L. Block, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist known as "Herblock" whose acid pen drove two angry presidents to cancel their subscriptions to The Washington Post (Eisenhower and Nixon), dies of pneumonia at age 91 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. Ref 
2003
Jan 22Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer-prize winning World War II cartoonist (Willie and Joe), dies in Newport Beach CA at age 81. (TWA, 2004).
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