Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Women Prize Winners in Literature
Women's History Month |
See Nobel Prizes for Literature for the full list of winners.
| 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. |
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Poetry
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 |
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
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 |
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Drama
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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