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The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually for outstanding contributions to American journalism, letters, and music. Since 1919, Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded numerous times to faculty members - and some professors have won multiple times.

NAME YEAR CATEGORY
Henry Adams 1919 Biography
Charles McIlwain 1924 History
Mark A. DeWolfe Howe 1925 Biography
Edward Channing 1926 History
Harvey Cushing 1926 Biography
Archibald MacLeish* 1933 Poetry
Frederick J. Turner 1933 History
Robert Hillyer 1934 Poetry
Ralph Barton Perry 1936 Biography
Paul Herman Buck 1938 History
Robert Frost 1943 Poetry
Samuel Eliot Morison 1943 Biography
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1946 History
Walter Piston 1948 Music
Oscar Handlin 1952 History
Archibald MacLeish 1953 Poetry
Archibald MacLeish 1959 Drama
Samuel Eliot Morison** 1960 Biography
David Donald* 1961 Biography
Walter Piston 1961 Music
Walter Jackson Bate 1964 Biography
Howard Mumford Jones 1965 Nonfiction
Perry Miller*** 1966 History
Leon Kirchner 1967 Music
Bernard Malamud 1967 Fiction
Bernard Bailyn 1968 History
George F. Kennan 1968 Biography
Mario Davidosky* 1971 Music
Robert Coles 1973 Nonfiction
Donald Martino* 1974 Music
John E. Mack 1977 Biography
Walter Jackson Bate 1978 Biography
Alfred Chandler Jr. 1978 History
Edward O. Wilson 1979 Nonfiction
Bernard Rands* 1984 Music
Paul E. Starr 1984 Nonfiction
Thomas K. McCraw 1985 History
Bernard Bailyn 1987 History
David Donald 1988 Biography
Bert Hölldobler 1991 Nonfiction
Edward O. Wilson 1991 Nonfiction
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich* 1991 History
Jorie Graham* 1996 Poetry
Samantha Power 2003 Nonfiction
Caroline Elkins 2006 Nonfiction
Geraldine Brooks 2006 Fiction
* Prize awarded before appointment to the faculty.
** Prize awarded after retirement from the faculty.
*** Prize awarded posthumously.

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