Edwin O'Connor

male, deceased (1968)
From Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States Coast Guard, World War II, writer, Irish-American, American…PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Edwin O'Connor (29 July 1918 - 23 March 1968) was an American journalist and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for "The Edge...
Alice Walker

Alice Walker

female, 65 years old
author, poet, Feminist, African American, African-American, PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner…Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award winner
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her...
Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones

male, 58 years old
All Aunt Hagar's Child, National Book Award, MacArthur Fellowship, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and...
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

male, 76 years old
the road, post-apocalyptic, New Mexico writer, PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner, writer, Irish-American…pulitzer prize, No Country For Old Men, post-apocalyptic fiction, Western fiction
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the...
Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks

female, 54 years old
Australian women writer, Sydney University, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Civil War, Balkans, PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner…pulitzer prize
Geraldine Brooks (born 1955) is an Pulitzer Prize-winning, Australian-American journalist and author.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri

female, 42 years old
PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner, great behaviour, CUT, Barnard College alumni, Indian women writer, novelist
Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias is a contemporary Indian American author based in New York City.
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

male, deceased (1961)
writer, war correspondent, the old man and the sea, pulitzer prize, Short story writer, Short Story Author…nobel prize in literature, treated for alcoholism, PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part...
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

male, deceased (2007) (Manhattan, New York, United States)
pulitzer prize, film director, journalist, creative nonfiction, National Book Award, novelist…Pulitzer Prize winner, PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman...
Richard Ford

Richard Ford

male, 65 years old
pulitzer prize, Minimalist writer, Short story writer, The Lay of the Land, PulitzerPrizeforFictionwinner, Rock Springs…married for thirty-eight years
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The...