The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize was Of Thee I Sing, a political satire based on a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The play debuted in 1931 and won the Pulitzer in 1932. Although George Gershwin wrote the musical score, his name is not listed as one of the winners.
Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his work Blood on the Fields, in 1997.
Duke Ellington was almost the first jazz musician to receive a Pulitizer for Music in 1965, but the Pulitzer Prize Board rejected the jury's selection, so no award was given that year. Ellington believed the Board had little respect for the jazz genre, and was only interested in "European" Classical Music.
No one. The 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Music was awarded to Melinda Wagner for her Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion.
Duke Ellington received a posthumous Special Citation for his contribution to music in 1999, but not a Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer jury had voted to give Duke Ellington a Pulitzer Prize for jazz in 1965, but the Board rejected their suggestion and refused to issue any award for music that year.
As of 2011, the Pulitzer has only been presented to two jazz musicians (not including Special Citations):
1997 Wynton Marsalis, Blood on the Fields
2007 Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar
Charles Ives' Symphony No. 3 won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
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Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. He also won a Nobel Prize for literature for this book.
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No one. Thelonious Monk won a posthumous Pulitzer Special Citation for his contribution to music in 2006, but he was a jazz artist. You may be thinking of the 2008 Special Citation awarded to Bob Dylan "for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
Wynton Marsalis won the 1997 (not 1996) Pulitzer Prize in Music for Blood on the Fields. He was the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer.
The Pulitzer Jury recommended Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington for a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1965, but the Board rejected their suggestion. Ellington won a posthumous Special Citation (not a Pulitzer Prize) in 1999 "in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture."
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Age of Innocence" in 1921.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
Martin Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Journey in the Dark. The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the category from "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948.
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