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As of 2021, Mississippians have won 16 Pulitzer Prizes across various categories such as fiction, poetry, journalism, and Photography. Notable winners include Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Donna Tartt.

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Mississippi Pulitzer Winners and Finalists:

1946: Hodding Carter, Editorial Writing, The Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, MS

1948: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, drama

1955: William Faulkner, A Fable, Fiction

1955: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, drama

1961: David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, (biography)

1963: William Faulkner, The Reivers, Fiction

1973: Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, Fiction

1981: Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart, drama

1984: Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (biography)

1988: David Donald, Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (biography)

1996: Richard Ford, Independence Day

2002: David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, general nonfiction (finalist)

2005: Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, de Kooning: An American Master (biography)

2007: Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, poetry

2008: David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, history (finalist)

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