UI Pulitzer Prize Winners
In our UNESCO City of Literature, home to the Iowa Writers' Workship, it's no wonder we keep a long list of UI-affiliated 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.)