Pulitzer Prize Winners

Year

Winner

1938	Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Journal, a special bronze plaque for editorial leadership in defense of freedom of the press in the province of Alberta.
1941	New York Times, for the public educational value of its foreign news report.
1944	Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, for their musical Oklahoma! Byron Price, director of the Office of Censorship, for the creation and administration of the newspaper and radio codes. Mrs. William Allen White, for the interest and services of her husband during the past seven years as a member of the advisory board of the graduate school of journalism, Columbia University.
1945	The cartographers of the American press, for their war maps.
1947	(Pulitzer centennial year) Columbia University and the graduate school of journalism, for their efforts to maintain and advance the high standards governing the Pulitzer Prize awards. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its unswerving adherence to the public and professional ideals of its founder and its leadership in the field of American journalism.
1948	Dr. Frank Fackenthal, for his interest and service.
1951	Cyrus L. Sulzberger (New York Times), for his exclusive interview with Archbishop Stepinac, in a Yugoslav prison.
1952	Kansas City (Mo.) Star, for coverage of 1951 floods; Max Kase (New York Journal-American), for exposures of bribery in college basketball.
1953	New York Times, for its 17-year publication of 'News of the Week in Review,' and Lester Markel, the founder.
1957	Kenneth Roberts, for his historical novels.
1958	Walter Lippmann (New York Herald Tribune), for 'wisdom, perception and high sense of responsibility.'
1960	Garrett Mattingly, for The Armada.
1961	American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, as a distinguished example of American book publishing.
1964	Gannet Newspapers, for the series 'The Road to Integration.'
1973	James Thomas Flexner, for George Washington, Vols. I-IV.
1974	Roger Sessions, for his life's work in music.
1976	Scott Joplin, for contributions to American music. John Hohenberg, for administration of the Pulitzer Prizes and achievements as teacher and journalist.
1977	Alex Haley, for his novel Roots
1978	Richard Lee Strout (Christian Science Monitor and New Republic), for distinguished commentary. E. B. White, for literary work.
1982	Milton Babbitt, for 'his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer.'
1984	Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), for his children's books.
1985	William Schuman, for 'more than half a century of contribution to American music as composer and educational leader.'
1987	Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 'for extraordinary services to American journalism and letters during his 31 years as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board and for his accomplishments as an editor and publisher.'
1992	Art Spiegelman for Maus, a story in comic-book form of the Holocaust and one of its survivors.
1996	Herb Caen (San Francisco Chronicle) for his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and a conscience of his city.
1998	George Gershwin, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
1999	Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington, in 'recognition of his musical genius' and 'indelible contribution to art and culture.'
2006	Edmund S. Morgan, for his work as an American historian. Thelonious Monk, for his composition work that 'has had a significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz.'
2007	John Coltrane, for his 'masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz.' Ray Bradbury, for his 'distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.'
2008	Bob Dylan, for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.

Source: Columbia University.

Appears in these articles:

American Literature: Drama; Pulitzer Prizes; Newspaper; American Literature: Prose; American Literature: Poetry

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