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Pulitzer Prizes Awarded to Yaddo Guests 1926 - 2009FICTIONJohn P. Marquand, The Late George Apley, 1938 Robert L. Taylor, The Travels of Jaime McPheeters, 1959 Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, 1966 Bernard Malamud, The Fixer, 1967 Jean Stafford, Collected Stories, 1970 Wallace Stegner, Angel of Repose, 1972 Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter, 1973 Saul Bellow, Humbolt’s Gift, 1976 James A. McPherson, Elbow Room, 1978 John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever, 1979 Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1983 Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs, 1985 Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis, 1987 Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, 1990 Philip Roth, American Pastoral, 1998 Michael Cunningham, The Hours, 1999 Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, 2003 Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, 2009 BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHYLeon Edel, Henry James: Vol. 1, The Conquest of London, 1870-1881; Vol. III The Middle Years: 1881-1895, 1963 Louis Sheaffer, O’Neill, Son and Artist, 1974 NONFICTIONDale Maharidge (with Michael Williamson), And Their Children After Them, 1990 HISTORYVan Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1937 Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time - Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, 1995 POLITICAL CARTOONINGJules Feiffer, The Village Voice, 1986 POETRYMarya Zaturenska, Cold Morning Sky, 1938 John Gould Fletcher, Selected Poems, 1939 Robert Lowell, Lord Weary’s Castle, 1947 Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum, 1949 Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen, 1950 Theodore Roethke, The Waking, 1954 Elizabeth Bishop, Poems North and South, 1956 Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems 1928-1958, 1959 W.D. Snodgrass, Heart’s Needle, 1960 William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Breughel, 1963 Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems, 1966 Robert Lowell, The Dolphin, 1974 Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems, 1978 Donald Justice, Selected Poems, 1980 Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, 1982 Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems, 1983 William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, 1988 Mona Van Duyn, Near Changes, 1991 Mark Strand, Blizzard of One, 1999 Stephen Dunn, Different Hours, 2001 Carl Dennis, Practical Gods, 2002 Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel, 2003 Philip Schultz, Failure, 2008 DRAMAPaula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive, 1998 Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife, 2004 MUSICAaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, 1945 Virgil Thomson, Louisiana Song, 1949 Gail Kubik, Symphony Concertante, 1952 Quincy Porter, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, 1954 Ernest Toch, Third Symphony, 1956 Karel Husa, String Quartet No. 3, 1969 Ned Rorem, Air Music, 1976 David Del Tredici, In Memory of a Summer Day, 1980 George Perle, Wind Quintet No. 4, 1986 George Walker, When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom’d, 1996 Aaron Jay Kernis, String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis, 1998 Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy, 2004 Steven Stucky, Second Concerto for Orchestra, 2005 PUBLIC SERVICECarl Bernstein, for investigation of the Watergate case while at The Washington Post, 1973 NATIONAL REPORTINGTim Weiner, for a series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget while at the Philadelphia Inquirer, 1988 |