Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Poetry
1918
Sara Teasdale for Love Songs
1919
Margaret Widdemer for Old Road to Paradise
1923
Edna St. Vincent Millay for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from
Thistles; eight sonnets in American Poetry, 1922, A Miscellany
1926
Amy Lowell for What's O'Clock
1927
Leonora Speyer for Fiddler's Farewell
1935
Audrey Wurdemann for Bright Ambush
1938
Marya Zaturenska for Cold Morning Sky
1950
Gwendolyn Brooks for Annie Allen
1952
Marianne Moore for Collected Poems
1956
Elizabeth Bishop for Poems — North & South
1961
Phyllis McGinley for Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades
1967
Anne Sexton for Live or Die
1973
Maxine Winokur Kumin for Up Country
1982
Sylvia Plath for The Collected Poems
1984
Mary Oliver for American Primitive
1985
Carolyn Kizer for Yin
1987
Rita Dove for Thomas and Beulah
1991
Mona Van Duyn for Near Changes
1993
Louise Gluck for The Wild Iris
1993
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove named Poet Laureate of the U.S.
1996
Jorie Graham for The Dream of the Unified Field
1997
Lisel Mueller for Alive Together: New Selected Poems
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
1921
Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence
1923
Willa Cather for One of Ours
1924
Margaret Wilson for The Able McLaughlins
1925
Edna Ferber for So Big
1929
Julia Peterkin for Scarlet Sister
1931
Margaret Ayer Barnes for Years of Grace
1932
Pearl Buck for The Good Earth
1934
Caroline Miller for Lamb in His Bosom
1935
Josephine Winslow Johnson for Now in November
1937
Margaret Mitchell for Gone with the Wind
1939
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for The Yearling
1942
Ellen Glasgow for In This Our Life
1961
Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird
1965
Shirley Ann Grau for The Keepers of the House
1966
Katherine Anne Porter for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1970
Jean Stafford for Collected Stories
1973
Eudora Welty for The Optimist's Daughter
1983
Alice Walker for The Color Purple
1985
Alison Lurie for Foreign Affairs
1988
Toni Morrison for Beloved
1989
Anne Tyler for Breathing Lessons
1992
Jane Smiley for A Thousand Acres
1994
E. Annie Proulx for The Shipping News
1995
Carol Shields for The Stone Diaries
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Drama
See Pulitzer Prizes for Drama at Infoplease.com for the full list of winners.
1921
Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett
1931
Susan Glaspell for Alison's House
1935
Zoe Akins for The Old Maid
1945
Mary Chase for Harvey
1956
Frances Goodrich (with Albert Hackett) for The Diary of Anne Frank
1958
Ketti Frings for Look Homeward, Angel
1981
Beth Henley for Crimes of the Heart
1983
Marsha Norman for 'Night Mother
1989
Wendy Wasserstein for The Heidi Chronicles
1998
Paula Vogel for How I Learned to Drive
1999
Margaret Edson for Wit
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for General Nonfiction
1963
Barbara W. Tuchman for The Guns of August
1968
Will and Ariel Durant for Rousseau and Revolution
1972
Barbara W. Tuchman for Stilwell and the American Experience in China,
19111945
1973
Frances FitzGerald for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans
in
Vietnam; Robert M. Coles for Children of Crisis (Vols. 1 and 2)
1974
Annie Dillard for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
1983
Susan Sheehan for Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
1996
Tina Rosenberg for The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After
Communism
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for History
1942
Margaret Leech for Reveille in Washington
1943
Esther Forbes for Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
1959
Leonard D. White, assisted by Jean Schneider for The Republican EraL
18691901
1960
Margaret Leech for In the Days of McKinley
1963
Constance McLaughlin Green for Washington, Village and Capital, 18001878
1991
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich for A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard,
Based on Her Diary 17851812
1995
Doris Kearns Goodwin for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt:
The Home Front in World War II
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Biography/Autobiography
1917
Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall
for
Julia Ward Howe
1941
Ola E. Winslow for Jonathan Edwards
1946
Linnie Marsh Wolfe for Son of the Wilderness
1947
Margaret Clapp for Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
1951
Margaret Louise Coit for John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
1958
Douglas Southall Freeman (Vols. 16) and John Alexander Carroll and
Mary
Wells (Vol. 7) for George Washington
1986
Elizabeth Frank for Louise Bogan: A Portrait
1995
Joan D. Hedrick for Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
1998
Katharine Graham for Personal History
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Music
1951
Gail Kubik for Symphony Concertante
1983
Ellen T. Zwilich for Three Movements for Orchestra
1999
Melinda Wagner for Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion