Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Letters, Drama, and Music

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Poetry

See Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry at Infoplease.com for the full list of winners.

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
2006	Claudia Emerson for Late Wife
2007	Natasha Trethewey for Native Guard
2010	Rae Armantrout for Versed
2011	Kay Ryan for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

See Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction at Infoplease.com for the full list of winners.

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
2000	Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
2005	Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2006	March, Geraldine Brooks
2009	Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
2011	A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

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
2002	Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks
2009	Ruined Lynn Nottage

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, 1911–1945
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
2002	Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, Diane McWhorter
2003	A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
2004	Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum
2006	Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Caroline Elkins

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 1869–1901
1960	Margaret Leech for In the Days of McKinley
1963	Constance McLaughlin Green for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878
1991	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich for A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785–1812
1995	Doris Kearns Goodwin for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
2009	Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

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. 1–6) 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
2000	Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Stacy Schiff
2007	Debbie Applegate for The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

1983	Ellen T. Zwilich for Three Movements for Orchestra
1991	Shulamit Ran for Symphony
1999	Melinda Wagner for Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
2010	Jennifer Higdon for Violin Concerto

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