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Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography. [1]
Harriet Monroe, founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, wrote in an editorial (Apr.-Sept., 1922), "The award of a Pulitzer Prize of one thousand dollars to the Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson is a most agreeable surprise, as this is the first Pulitzer Prize ever granted to a poet.
These poets have won the American Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, awarded since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American writer, or one of the 1918 and 1919 special awards that the organization now considers the first Poetry Pulitzers.
James Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Thomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monk; W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate; Sarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writer; Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet
Fiction: . Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener ().; Drama: . A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).; History: . Across the Wide ...
Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. He became popular for writing about the African-American experience in the United States, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award for The Known World (2003).
Fiction: . The Fixer by Bernard Malamud ().; Drama: . A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee (). [6]History: . Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann ().
In honor of Joseph Pulitzer's 100th birthday and the 30th anniversary of the Prizes, a special citation was made, expressing gratitude to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism "for their efforts to maintain and advance the high standards governing these awards", and especially citing the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the newspaper ...