Princeton University

Publication: A Princeton Companion

Pulitzer Prizes

Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1917, have been awarded to the following Princeton alumni and faculty:

FICTION
1918 Ernest Poole '02, His Family
1919 Booth Tarkington 1893, The Magnificent Ambersons
1922 Booth Tarkington 1893, Alice Adams
1928 Thornton Wilder A.M. '26, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

DRAMA
1918 Jesse Lynch Williams 1892, Why Marry?
1922 Eugene O'Neill '10, Anna Christie
1928 Eugene O'Neill '10, Strange Interlude
1938 Thornton Wilder A.M. '26, Our Town
1943 Thornton Wilder A.M. '26, The Skin of Our Teeth
1950 Joshua L. Logan '31 (with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II)< South Pacific
1957 Eugene O'Neill '10, Long Day's Journey Into Night

HISTORY
1924 Charles H. McIlwain 1894 The American Revolution, A Constitutional Interpretation 1934 Herbert Sebastian Agar '19 Ph.D. '22, The People's Choice
1957 George F. Kennan '25, Russia Leaves the War

BIOGRAPHY
1934 Tyler Dennett (Professor of Politics), John Hay
1936 Ralph Barton Perry 1896, The Thought and Character of William James
1961 David Donald (Professor of History) Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
1968 George F. Kennan '25, Memoirs (1925-1950)
1971 Lawrance R. Thompson (Holmes Professor of Belles Lettres), Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph

POETRY
1971 William S. Merwin '48, The Carrier of Ladders

COMMENTARY
1977 George F. Will Ph.D. '68 (Columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group)

GENERAL NONFICTION
1977 William W. Warner '43 Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay


From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).