Women's History Month

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff Updated by an Factmonster Editor on February 21, 2017

Women Prize Winners in Literature

See Nobel Prizes for Literature for the full list of winners.

Women's History Month

Nobel Winning Scientists

1909	Selma Lagerof of Sweden
1928	Sigrid Undset of Norway
1938	Pearl Buck of the U.S.
1945	Gabriela Mistral of Chile
1991	Nadine Gordimer of South Africa
1993	Toni Morrison of the U.S.

See Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry in the Information Please Almanac 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
1935	Audrey Wurdemann for Bright Ambush
1938	Marya Zaturenska for Cold Morning Sky
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
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

See Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in the Information Please Almanac 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
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

See Pulitzer Prizes for Drama in the Information Please Almanac 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
1981	Beth Henley for Crimes of the Heart
1989	Wendy Wasserstein for The Heidi Chronicles
1998	Paula Vogel for How I Learned to Drive

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