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Women Prize Winners in Literature

See Nobel Prizes for Literature for the full list of winners. 1909 Selma Lagerof of Sweden 1928 Sigrid Undset of Norway 1938 Pearl Buck of the U.S. 1945 Gabriela Mistral of Chile 1991 Nadine Gordimer of South Africa 1993 Toni Morrison of the U.S.

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Poetry See Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry in the Information Please Almanac for the full list of winners. 1918 Sara Teasdale for Love Songs 1919 Margaret Widdemer for Old Road to Paradise 1923 Edna St. Vincent Millay for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; eight sonnets in American Poetry, 1922, A Miscellany 1926 Amy Lowell for What’s O’Clock 1935 Audrey Wurdemann for Bright Ambush 1938 Marya Zaturenska for Cold Morning Sky 1952 Marianne Moore for Collected Poems 1956 Elizabeth Bishop for Poems — North & South 1961 Phyllis McGinley for Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades 1967 Anne Sexton for Live or Die 1982 Sylvia Plath for The Collected Poems 1984 Mary Oliver for American Primitive 1985 Carolyn Kizer for Yin 1987 Rita Dove for Thomas and Beulah 1991 Mona Van Duyn for Near Changes 1993 Louise Gluck for The Wild Iris 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove named Poet Laureate of the U.S. 1996 Jorie Graham for The Dream of the Unified Field 1997 Lisel Mueller for Alive Together: New Selected Poems

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction See Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in the Information Please Almanac for the full list of winners. 1921 Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence 1923 Willa Cather for One of Ours 1924 Margaret Wilson for The Able McLaughlins 1925 Edna Ferber for So Big 1929 Julia Peterkin for Scarlet Sister 1931 Margaret Ayer Barnes for Years of Grace 1932 Pearl Buck for The Good Earth 1934 Caroline Miller for Lamb in His Bosom 1937 Margaret Mitchell for Gone with the Wind 1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for The Yearling 1942 Ellen Glasgow for In This Our Life 1961 Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird 1965 Shirley Ann Grau for The Keepers of the House 1966 Katherine Anne Porter for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter 1970 Jean Stafford for Collected Stories 1973 Eudora Welty for The Optimist’s Daughter 1983 Alice Walker for The Color Purple 1985 Alison Lurie for Foreign Affairs 1988 Toni Morrison for Beloved 1989 Anne Tyler for Breathing Lessons 1992 Jane Smiley for A Thousand Acres 1994 E. Annie Proulx for The Shipping News 1995 Carol Shields for The Stone Diaries

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Drama See Pulitzer Prizes for Drama in the Information Please Almanac for the full list of winners. 1921 Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett 1931 Susan Glaspell for Alison’s House 1935 Zoe Akins for The Old Maid 1945 Mary Chase for Harvey 1956 Frances Goodrich (with Albert Hackett) for The Diary of Anne Frank 1981 Beth Henley for Crimes of the Heart 1989 Wendy Wasserstein for The Heidi Chronicles 1998 Paula Vogel for How I Learned to Drive

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Women’s History Month

  • Nobel Winning Scientists
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  • Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism
  • Women Rulers of the World
  • Women Inventors
  • National Women’s Hall of Fame

See Nobel Prizes for Literature for the full list of winners.

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Poetry

See Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry in the Information Please Almanac for the full list of winners.

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction

See Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in the Information Please Almanac for the full list of winners.

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Drama

See Pulitzer Prizes for Drama in the Information Please Almanac for the full list of winners.

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