UI Pulitzer Prize Winners

2008 Music
David Lang, UI Alum
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Prize Work: The Little Match Girl Passion

2008 Poetry
Robert Hass, Visiting Faculty
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Prize Work: Time and Materials

2008 Poetry
Philip Schultz, 71MFA
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Prize Work: Failure

2005 Fiction
Marilynne Robinson, Faculty
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Prize Work: Gilead

1999 Fiction
Michael Cunningham, 80MFA
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Prize Work: The Hours

1999 Poetry
Mark Strand, 62MA
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Prize Work: A Blizzard of One
(Former UI faculty member)

1998 Poetry
Charles Wright, 63MFA
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Prize Work: Black Zodiac
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1998 Fiction
Philip Roth
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Prize Work: American Pastoral
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1996 Poetry
Jorie Graham, 78MFA
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Prize Work: The Dream of the Unified Field
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1995 Poetry
Philip Levine, 57MFA
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Prize Work: The Simple Truth
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1993 Investigative Reporting
Steve Berry
Journalism faculty member
For exposing the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from motorists by a sheriff's drug squad, published in the Orlando Sentinel with coauthor Jeff Brazil

1993 Explanatory Journalism
Mike Toner, 66BA
Prize Work: "When Bugs Bite Back," published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

1993 Poetry
Louise Glück
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Prize Work: The Wild Iris
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1993 Fiction
Robert Olen Butler, 69MA
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Prize Work: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

1992 Poetry
James Tate, 67MFA
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Prize Work: Selected Poems
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1993 Fiction
Robert Olen Butler, 69MA
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Prize Work: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

1992 Fiction
Jane Smiley, 75MA, 76MFA, 78PhD
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Prize Work: A Thousand Acres
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1991 Poetry
Mona Van Duyn, 43MA
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Prize Work: Near Changes
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1987 Poetry
Rita Dove, 77MFA
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Prize Work: Thomas and Beulah
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1986 Feature Writing
John Camp, 66BA, 71MA
For his work at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch

1985 Poetry
Carolyn Kizer
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Prize Work: Yin
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1983 Editorial Cartooning
Paul Conrad, 50BA
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For his work at the Los Angeles Times

1982 General Non-Fiction
Tracy Kidder, 74MFA
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Prize Work: The Soul of a New Machine

1980 Poetry
Donald Justice, 54PhD
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Selected Poems

1980 Poetry
Robert Penn Warren
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Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1979 Fiction
John Cheever
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The Stories of John Cheever
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1978 Fiction
James Alan McPherson, 71MFA
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Elbow Room
Currently a Writers' Workshop faculty member

1974 Poetry
Robert Lowell
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The Dolphin

1972 Fiction
Wallace Stegner, 32MA, 35PhD
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Angle of Repose
Former UI Faculty Member

1971 Editorial Cartooning
Paul Conrad, 50BA
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For his work at the Los Angeles Times

1970 Commentary
Marquis Childs, 25MA
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For his work at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Former UI Student

1968 Poetry
Anthony Hecht
The Hard Hours
(Former UI student)

1965 Poetry
John Berryman
77 Dream Songs
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1964 Editorial Cartooning
Paul Conrad, 50BA
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For his work at the Denver Post

1960 Poetry
W.D. Snodgrass, 49BA, 51MA, 53MFA
Heart's Needle

1958 Poetry
Robert Penn Warren
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Promises: Poems 1954-46

1955 Drama
Tennessee Williams, 38BA
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1954 National Reporting
Richard Wilson
For his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case prior to its being laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover, Des Moines Register Tribune. Former UI student

1952 Photography
Don Ultang, 39BA
For his work at the Des Moines Register and Tribune

1948 Drama
Tennessee Williams, 38BA
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A Streetcar Named Desire

1947 Poetry
Robert Lowell
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Lord Weary's Castle
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1947 Novel
Robert Penn Warren
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All the King's Men
Former Writers' Workshop faculty member

1939 History
Frank Luther Mott
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A History of American Magazines
(Mott was director of the School of Journalism before Wilbur Schramm took over in 1943.)