- Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman is a Pulitzer Prize winning and nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist for "Newsday". He joined the paper in February of 2001. Before that, Walt worked for "The Times-Picayune" in New Orleans from 1989 to 2001, The Scranton (PA) Times from 1985-1989, and a chain of 13 award-winning Baltimore and Washington suburban weeklies from 1982-1985. Walt, 49, a graduate of The University of Cincinnati, … - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir "A Moveable Feast." He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. - Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. - Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. - Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as "The Crucible", "A View from the Bridge", "All My Sons", and "Death of a Salesman", which are still studied and performed worldwide. - David McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. A two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, he is widely referred to as a "master of the art of narrative history." Among his most well-known books are "The Path Between the Seas", "Truman", "John Adams", and his most recent volume, "1776" (a "New York Times" and Amazon bestseller). - Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", her only major work to date. - Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame for the 1959 collection "Goodbye, Columbus", grabbed headlines with his 1969 bestseller "Portnoy's Complaint", and has continued to write noted literary works, many of which featured his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels started with "The Ghost Writer" in 1979, … - Bob Woodward
Robert "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is assistant managing editor of "The Washington Post". While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with his co-employee Carl Bernstein helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. - Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is widely seen as his generation's leading writer of the stage musical. Described by Frank Rich in the "The New York Times" as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater," he is one of the few people to win an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. - Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the "Chicago Sun-Times" since 1967, and later online, and for the television program "Siskel & Ebert", which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel. - Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a columnist for "The New York Times". She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. - Tony Kushner
Mr. Kushner is a leading playwright and a major voice in American Theatre who has won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, two Tony Awards for Best Play and an Emmy. ... Tony Kushner has been hailed as one of the leading playwrights of his generation and is a major voice in American Theatre. - John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he wrote "Of Mice and Men" (1937) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and subsequent Great Depression. - Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937 Chicago) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to "The New Yorker" magazine on military and security matters. His work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. - August Wilson
August Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. Wilson's singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays—two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama—dubbed "The Pittsburgh Cycle". Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American experience in the 20th century. "This cycle," notes the theater critic Christopher Rawson, "is unprecedented in American theater for its concept, size, and cohesion." - Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches. His plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, … - David Halberstam
David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. - Dave Barry
David Barry, Jr. (born July 3, 1947) is a bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote a nationally syndicated column for the "The Miami Herald" from 1983 to 2005. - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999 - George Will
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. - Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American writer, best known for his 1998 novel "The Hours", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. - Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, "Maus." - Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedman, OBE (born July 20, 1953), is an American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an op-ed contributor to "The New York Times", whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses topics on foreign affairs. Friedman is known for supporting a compromise resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, modernization of the Arab world, environmentalism and globalization. - Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks (born 1955) is an Pulitzer Prize-winning, Australian-American journalist and author. - Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt was one of those teachers who fell into the job whilst secretly wishing he could do something else (in his case, a writer - an ambition he has now achieved). As a result this is a curious memoir of a man who has spent many years reluctantly at the chalk face. He conveys something of the workload of a typical classroom teacher: all that lesson planning and marking; and also the difficulties of idealistic teacher battling with technocratic school authorities. - Richard Russo
Richard Russo (born July 15 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a B.A. (1967), a M.F.A. (1980), and a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Arizona. His novel "Empire Falls", published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written four other novels: "Mohawk", "The Risk Pool", "Nobody's Fool", and "Straight Man", … - Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel "Lonesome Dove", a sweeping historical epic that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana. It was adapted into a hit television miniseries. Much of his other fiction is also set in the "old west" or contemporary Texas. - Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Simon briefly attended New York University in 1946. Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon. - Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. A poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, Dr. Angelou continues to travel the world making appearances, spreading her legendary wisdom. A mesmerizing vision of grace, swaying and stirring when she moves, Dr. Angelou captivates her audiences lyrically with vigor, fire and perception. - Richard Ford
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 Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day" and "The Lay of the Land", and the widely anthologized story collection "Rock Springs". - Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. Chris spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the author of the best selling "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," which was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. - Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an award-winning American playwright, writer and actor. His many written works are known for being frank and often absurd, as well as for having an authentic sense of the style and sensibility of the gritty modern American west. Shepard is also a respected actor of the stage and motion pictures. - Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained a A.B. at Vassar College, then earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an award-winning author and historian. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Widely published revelations of plagiarism began in 2002, and her admission that she had previously settled a plagiarism case out of court had an effect on her reputation. While Goodwin steadfastly denied plagiarism, using the word "unintentional" to excuse her unattributed use of others' work, her concurrent position on the Harvard Board of Directors, … - Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer, (born 13 March 1950), is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and commentator. Krauthammer appears regularly as a guest commentator on "Fox News". His print work appears in the "Washington Post", "Time" magazine and "The Weekly Standard". - Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. - Carl Sandburg
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois of Swedish parents and died at his home, named Connemara, in Flat Rock, North Carolina. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." He was a successful journalist, poet, historian, biographer, and autobiographer. During the course of his career, Sandburg won two Pulitzer Prizes, … - Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, "Gone with the Wind," published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies (see list of best-selling books). An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards. - Jeffrey Eugenides
His first novel, The Virgin Suicides , published in 1993, has been translated into 15 languages and made into a feature film. His second novel, Middlesex , received the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, France's Prix Medici, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His latest book, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro , was published in 2008.
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