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 |
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
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 |
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 |
| 2002 | Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks |
| 2009 | Ruined Lynn Nottage |
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, 1911â1945 |
| 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 |
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 1869â1901 |
| 1960 | Margaret Leech for In the Days of McKinley |
| 1963 | Constance McLaughlin Green for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800â1878 |
| 1991 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich for A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785â1812 |
| 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 |
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. 1â6) 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 |
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Music
| 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 |
