Pulitzer Prize Events

1955 May William Faulkner Is Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 'A Fable'
A Fable was conceived in 1943 during a discussion in wartime Hollywood among Faulkner, producer William Bacher, and director Henry Hathaway about a film on the Unknown Soldier. One propos...
1963 William Faulkner Is Posthumously Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Reivers'
William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County draws to a close in this Library of America edition of his last three novels, rich with the accumulated history and lore of ...
1972 Maya Angelou receives Pulitzer Prize Nomination
Poems of love and regret, of racial strife and confrontation, songs of people and songs of the heart - all are charged with Maya Angelou's zest for life and her rage at injustice. Lyrical...
1983 Alice Walker Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Col...
1984 Theodor Seuss Geisel is Awarded a Special Citation in Letters From the Pulitzer Prize Committee
Although there was no Fiction prize in 1957, the Pulitzer judges that year gave an honorary award to Kenneth Roberts for his historical novels written between 1930 and 1956. Only one othe...