Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The author whose Collected Letters was published in November 2010 and whose Humboldt's Gift won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976.
Who is Saul Bellow?
Who is William Carlos Williams?
The American playwright and professor at the University of Houston whose talent has brought him Pulitzer Prizes for his Seascape, Three Tall Women, and A Delicate Balance.
Who is Edward Albee?
The recently-deceased twentieth-century British playwright, author of The Dumb Waiter, The Homecoming, and the absurdist play The Birthday Party, and screenwriter for John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman and Franz Kafka's The Trial, who received the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Harold Pinter?
The author of The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Who is Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)?
The author and recipient of the 1985 O. Henry Award for her short stories and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Color Purple.
Who is Alice Walker?
The award-winning translator of French literature and author of the poetry collection Untitled Subjects, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize.
Who is Richard Howard?
The 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to the author of the novel The Pigman for his compelling play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
Who is Paul Zindel?
The Russian author of the novel Doctor Zhivago who was forced to declined the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Boris Pasternak?
The British author of The Magus, The Collector, and his internationally acclaimed metafictional novel The French Lieutenant's Woman.
Who is John Fowles?
The Jewish American author known for his campus novel A New Life and recipient of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Fixer.
Who is Bernard Malamud?
The recipient of both the 1971 and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Carrier of Ladders and The Shadow of Sirius, respectively.
Who is W. S. Merwin?
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (the book) in 1985 for this musical.
What is Sunday in the Park with George?
The Irish poet, playwright, and translator of Beowulf who was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The nineteenth-century American author of Omoo, Typee, Mardi, Redburn: His First Voyage, White-Jacket; or The World in a Man-of-War, and "Bartleby the Scrivener."
Who is Herman Melville?
The author of The Golden Apple, Delta Wedding, the short story collection A Curtain of Green, and the novel for which she received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Optimist's Daughter.
Who is Eudora Welty?
The poet and author of The Bell Jar who received, posthumously, the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her Collected Poems.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
The impressionist dramatist and novelist whose work is recognized as deeply influential on the Theatre of the Absurd and who received the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Luigi Pirandello?
The eighteenth-century Irish author of A Tale of the Tub, Gulliver's Travels, and "A Modest Proposal."
Who is Jonathan Swift?
The twentieth-century author of almost exclusively short stories who was awarded the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his collection of short stories entitled The Stories.
Who is John Cheever?
The poet whose writings portray the private, personal matters characteristic of confessional poetry and who was awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Live or Die.
Who is Anne Sexton?
The Chinese absurdist novelist, playwright, film director, translator, critic, and painter who was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Gao Xingjian?
The nineteenth-century American author of The American, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Bostonians.
Who is Henry James?