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Pulitzer Prize Winners

Pulitzer Prize winners

The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually for outstanding contributions to American journalism, letters, and music. Since 1919, Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded numerous times to Harvard faculty members — and some professors have won multiple times.

Recipient	Year prize awarded	Category
Stephen Greenblatt	2012	Nonfiction
Caroline Elkins	2006	Nonfiction
Geraldine Brooks	2006	Fiction
Samantha Power	2003	Nonfiction
Jorie Graham*	1996	Poetry
Bert Hölldobler	1991	Nonfiction
Edward O. Wilson	1991	Nonfiction
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich*	1991	History
David Donald	1988	Biography
Bernard Bailyn	1987	History
Thomas K. McCraw	1985	History
Bernard Rands*	1984	Music
Paul E. Starr	1984	Nonfiction
Edward O. Wilson	1979	Nonfiction
Walter Jackson Bate	1978	Biography
Alfred Chandler Jr.	1978	History
John E. Mack	1977	Biography
Donald Martino*	1974	Music
Robert Coles	1973	Nonfiction
Mario Davidosky*	1971	Music
Bernard Bailyn	1968	History
George F. Kennan	1968	Biography
Leon Kirchner	1967	Music
Bernard Malamud	1967	Fiction
Perry Miller***	1966	History
Howard Mumford Jones	1965	Nonfiction
Walter Jackson Bate	1964	Biography
David Donald*	1961	Biography
Walter Piston	1961	Music
Samuel Eliot Morison**	1960	Biography
Archibald MacLeish	1959	Drama
Archibald MacLeish	1953	Poetry
Oscar Handlin	1952	History
Walter Piston	1948	Music
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	1946	History
Robert Frost	1943	Poetry
Samuel Eliot Morison	1943	Biography
Paul Herman Buck	1938	History
Ralph Barton Perry	1936	Biography
Robert Hillyer	1934	Poetry
Archibald MacLeish*	1933	Poetry
Frederick J. Turner	1933	History
Edward Channing	1926	History
Harvey Cushing	1926	Biography
Mark A. DeWolfe Howe	1925	Biography
Charles McIlwain	1924	History
Henry Adams	1919	Biography

* Prize awarded before appointment to the faculty.
** Prize awarded after retirement from the faculty.
*** Prize awarded posthumously.

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