Pulitzer Prize

Awards are given for achievement in journalism, literature, non-fiction, and music (see the Pulitzer Prize Board Web site for details and history about this award). University faculty have 3 Pulitzer Prizes:

Awardee Department Date

Dominick Argento

Music: "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf"

Music 1975

John Berryman

Poetry: "77 Dream Songs"

English & Humanities 1965

Robert Penn Warren

Novel: "All the King's Men"

English 1947