Pulitzer Prize
1990
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition.
No, Doris Lessing did not win the Pulitzer Prize. However, she did receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her extensive body of work.
"The View from Castle Rock" did not win the Pulitzer Prize. It is a collection of short stories by Alice Munro that was first published in 2006, but it did not receive a Pulitzer Prize. Munro did, however, win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 for her body of work.
William Inge won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play, Picnic.
Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to readers as Dr. Seuss, won a Special Citation (not a Pulitzer Prize) from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1984.
Al Gore did not win the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work on climate change.
Gwendolyn Brooks won a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection, Annie Allen, in 1950.
Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
In 1978, James Alan McPherson became the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, Elbow Room.The Pulitzer Prize Board recognized Alex Haley with a Special Citation the year before (1977) for his historical fiction, Roots, but he didn't actually win a Pulitzer Prize.
No. Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize was John F. Kennedy for his biography Profiles in Courage.