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.
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)
CNN has won a total of 11 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2021.
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No. There is no single individual who won 49 Pulitzer Prizes, but some newspapers and news organizations have accumulated many for journalism categories over the years.The Associated Press (aka AP), which is not a newspaper but a "wire service" (or news bureau) that supplies articles and photographs to newspapers won 49 Pulitzer Prizes. Most of the their awards were for photography or photojournalism, and the majority of their wins were prior to 1990.The New York Times has an impressive record of 109 wins since 1917, the greatest number of Pulitzer Prizes won by one organization, as of 2011.
The New York Times has won the most Pulitzer Prizes by far, at 109, including the five received in 2011. The newspaper with the second best record is The Washington Post, with 57 awards.
African-American playwright August Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Wilson's play, Fences, won the Prize in 1987; another of his plays, The Piano Lesson, won in 1990.
The Los Angeles Times has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism, including six prestigious Public Service Awards in 2011, 2005, 1984, 1969, 1960, and 1942.
There is no formal limit to the number of times a person (or news organization) can win a Pulitzer Prize. Robert Frost won four times for his poetry; The New York Times won 109 times for Journalism.
He won two Pulitzer Prizes. (awards for books)
Maya Angelou won four Pulitzer Prizes and was the first person to read a poem at a U.S. Presidential inauguration.
He won two Pulitzer Prizes. (awards for books)
Barbara W. Tuchman won two Pulitzer Prizes in General Nonfiction. The first, in 1963, was for her book The Guns of August (Macmillan); the second, in 1972, was for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945(Macmillan).