The Pulitzer Prize for Letters - Special Citations

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The Pulitzer Prize is named in honor of Joseph Pulitzer a newspaper publisher in the late 19th century. The awards were established in 1917 and are governed by the Pulitzer Prize Board and awarded by Columbia University. Awards are given in 21 categories for journalism, drama, music, and letters.

 
2007
Ray Bradbury
1992
Art Spiegelman for Maus
It is the story of Vladek Speigelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale.
 
1984
Theodor Seuss Geisel AKA Dr. Seuss
 
1978
E.B. White
1977
Alex Haley for Roots
Roots begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author.
1973
James Thomas Flexner for George Washington, Vols. I-IV
1961
American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War
Pulitzer-prize winning author Catton presents the drama and sweep of a nation at war, with illustrations that range from photos by Matthew Brady to sketches by soldiers at the front.
1960
Garrett Mattingly for The Armada
The book covers Queen Elizabeth's reign over a turbulent nation, while the Duke of Parma plans the invasion of England from the Netherlands. The crucial period from February 1587 to December 1588 is presented in a series of detailed, dramatic scenes. The second part of the book is devoted to the naval battle from the first sight of the Armada off the Scilly Isles to the return of its broken remnants to the ports of Spain.
 
1957
Kenneth Roberts
1944
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for Oklahoma
A couple of young cowboys win the love of their sweethearts in the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the century, despite the interference of an evil ranch hand and a roaming peddler