Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction
The Southern novelist and short story writer who received the 1955 and 1963 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction for The Fable and The Reivers, respectively.
Who is William Faulkner?
The Michiganian who won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection entitled The Waking.
Who is Theodore Roethke?
The dramatist who received Pulitzers in 1948 and 1955 for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, respectively.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
The British author of the five-volume Bildungsroman entitled Children of Violence who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Doris Lessing?
The nineteenth-century American author of Twice-Told Tales, The House of the Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, The Celestial Railroad and Other Short Stories, The Blithedale Romance, Mosses from an Old Manse, and The Scarlet Letter.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
The recipient of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Harper Lee?
The African American poet, author of "We Real Cool" and recipient of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Annie Allen.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
The twentieth-century playwright whose trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra has a stage time in excess of four hours and who, in 1957, was awarded one of his several Pulitzer Prizes for Drama for his Long Day's Journey into Night.
Who is Eugene O'Neill?
The Chilean poet, aspirant to the Chilean presidency, and recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Pablo Neruda?
The nineteenth-century Scottish author of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, The Lady of the Lake, The Heart of Midlothian, Waverley, and Ivanhoe.
Who is Sir Walter Scott?
The recipient of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her Collected Short Stories, author of Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Ship of Fools, and The Older Order: Stories of the South.
Who is Katherine Anne Porter?
Poet of New England rural life and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1931, 1937, and 1943.
Who is Robert Frost?
The one-time blacklisted recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his Death of a Salesman (in which the protagonist's character is significantly understood through his redende name).
Who is Arthur Miller?
The influential Irish poet and Celtic Renaissance figure who is known for his mythopoeia-driven plays and poetry and who received the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Associated with the Jazz Age, the author of Tender is the Night, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and The Last Tycoon, and the short story collection Flappers and Philosophers.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
One of several founders of the critical movement known as New Criticism, the Southern critic, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and recipient of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his roman a clef entitled All the King's Men.
Who is Robert Penn Warren?
The poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice--in 1929 for John Brown's Body, and in 1944 for Western Star.
Who is Stephen Vincent Benet?
The Richard Rogers-Oscar Hammerstein II-Joshua Logan musical that is based on James A. Michener's 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner and which won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
What is South Pacific?
The German-born Swiss national, author of Siddhartha, and recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Hermann Hesse?
The British author whose popularity soared during the early twentieth century, the author of The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, and Just So Stories for Little Children.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
The recipient of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel The Edge of Sadness.
Who is Edwin O'Connor?
In addition to his 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this author also won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice--in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954-1956, and in 1979 for Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978.
Who is Robert Penn Warren?
The recipient of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his Idiot's Delight, the 1939 Prize for his Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and the 1941 Prize for his There Shall Be No Night, as well as the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Who is Robert E. Sherwood?
The American author of The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden who was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is John Steinbeck?
Associated with science fiction and the absurdist novel, the author who wrote Slapstick, The Sirens of Titan, Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, and Slaughterhouse-Five.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.?