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University of Iowa Affiliated Pulitzer Prize Winners
Jayne Anne Phillips
![night watch cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2024-05/nightwatch-pulitzer-iowa-alum.jpeg?itok=8Wkg5AQX)
Prize Year: 2024
Work: Night Watch
Prize Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)
Forrest Gander
![be with cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/41f69uhs3xl._sx322_bo1204203200_.jpg?itok=0hFv2GC5)
Prize Year: 2019
Work: Be With
Prize Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty
Andrew Sean Greer
![less cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/31933085.jpg?itok=q6NEsPTT)
Prize Year: 2018
Work: Less
Prize Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty
Paul Harding
![Tinkers cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/tinkers.jpg?itok=zNc9AMEB)
Prize Year: 2010
Work: Tinkers
Prize Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member
David Lang
![sheet music](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/littlematchgirl.gif?itok=x0RLQdv7)
Prize Year: 2008
Work: The Little Match Girl Passion
Prize Category: Music
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA)
Philip Schultz
![failure cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/failure.jpg?itok=CrkGMkSs)
Prize Year: 2008
Work: Failure
Prize Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)
Robert Hass
![time and materials cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/timeandmaterials.jpg?itok=kUqJxKv2)
Prize Year: 2008
Work: Time and Materials
Prize Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty
Marilynne Robinson
![gilead cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/Gilead.jpg?itok=CNPyv3B6)
Prize Year: 2005
Work: Gilead
Category: Fiction
UI Affiiation: Faculty Member
Nilo Cruz
![theater poster](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/2002annaposter_0.jpg?itok=SppdszjA)
Prize Year: 2003
Work: Anna in the Tropics
Category: Drama
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty
Mark Strand
![blizzard of one cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/blizzard.jpg?itok=j5d30JLF)
Prize Year: 1999
Work: Blizzard of One
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA & PHD), Faculty Member
Michael Cunningham
![the hours cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/hours.jpg?itok=ckuOU7ln)
Prize Year: 1999
Work: The Hours
Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: MFA
Charles Wright
![black zodiac cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/zodiac.jpg?itok=hN1otqTo)
Prize Year: 1998
Work: Black Zodiac
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)
Phillip Roth
![american pastoral cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/american.jpg?itok=lnD3_27f)
Prize Year: 1998
Work: American Pastoral
Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Visiting Professor
Jorie Graham
![dream of the unified field cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/jorie.jpg?itok=xJ2DLRV5)
Prize Year: 1996
Work: The Dream of the Unified Field
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Philip Levine
![the simple truth](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/718xkOnwxmL.jpg?itok=78R8_h3p)
Prize Year: 1995
Work: The Simple Truth
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member
Robert Olen Butler
![a good scent from a strange mountain](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/butler.jpg?itok=Pezo3VK4)
Prize Year: 1993
Work: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)
Louise Glück
![the wild iris](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/wildiris00loui_0001.jpg?itok=Bxo2utu_)
Prize Year: 1993
Work: The Wild Iris
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Mike Toner
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1993
Work: When Bugs Bite Back
Category: Explanatory Journalism
UI Affiliation: BA
James Tate
![james tate selected](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2024-05/Screenshot%202024-05-28%20at%2012.57.53%20PM.png?itok=nP-YA0um)
Prize Year: 1992
Work: Selected Poems
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member
Jane Smiley
![thousand acres](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/thousand.jpg?itok=KCrqz5Gr)
Prize Year: 1992
Work: A Thousand Acres
Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Mona Van Duyn
![near changes cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2024-05/Screenshot%202024-05-28%20at%2012.56.14%20PM.png?itok=-lF7_Aw9)
Prize Year: 1991
Work: Near Changes
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA & PHD)
Rita Dove
![thomas and beulah cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2024-05/Thomas_and_Beulah.jpg?itok=aYuqc9nX)
Prize Year: 1987
Work: Thomas and Beulah
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)
John Camp (John Sandford)
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1986
Work: Five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression.
Category: Feature Writing
UI Affiliation: MFA
Carolyn Kizer
![yin](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/yin.jpg?itok=t7oAOkaT)
Prize Year: 1985
Work: Yin
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Paul Conrad
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1984, 1971, 1964
Prize Category: Editorial Cartooning
UI Degree: BA
Dick Locher
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1983
Category: Editorial Cartooning
UI Affiliation: Former student
Galway Kinnell
![kinnell](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/28123.jpg?itok=N9r9rqNk)
Prize Year: 1983
Work: Selected Poems
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Tracy Kidder
![soul](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/51c%2BlYoSnbL.jpg?itok=YI4fbG7z)
Prize Year: 1982
Work: The Soul of a New Machine Category: General Nonfiction
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)
Donald Justice
![justice](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/41LKKPWL6UL._SX314_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg?itok=xPvxcT-O)
Prize Year: 1980
Work: Selected Poems
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (PHD), Faculty Member
John Cheever
![cheever](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/71WK90T5H8L._SX334_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg?itok=YzS99Nvr)
Prize Year: 1979
Work: The Stories of John Cheever
Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
James Alan McPherson
![elbow room](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/51GeGd0sbUL._SY291_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_QL40_ML2_.jpg?itok=M3E3R5N3)
Prize Year: 1978
Work: Elbow Room
Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty
Robert Lowell
![dolphin](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/51qFA1ZIlcL._SX323_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg?itok=4i0Mc3kc)
Prize Year: 1974
Work: The Dolphin
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Wallace Stegner
![angle of repose](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/A1cUtC5%2BZLL.jpg?itok=WELX_u2o)
Prize Year: 1972
Work: Angle of Repose
Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA & PHD)
Marquis Childs
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1970
Work: Distinguished Commentary during 1969
Category: Commentary
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Anthony Hecht
![the hard hours](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/81y9uss3RDL.jpg?itok=kdLH5odf)
Prize Year: 1968
Work: The Hard Hours
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member
John Berryman
![77 dream songs](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/71iO3yHSfxL.jpg?itok=IV3wYLSZ)
Prize Year: 1965
Work: 77 Dream Songs
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
W.D. Snodgrass
![heart's needle](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/22096.jpg?itok=KisMssgb)
Prize Year: 1960
Work: Heart’s Needle
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member
Tennessee Williams
![cat on a hot tin roof](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/61y1s%2B9R5nL.jpg?itok=AIlvEr_R)
Prize Year: 1955
Work: Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
Category: Drama
UI Affiliation: BA
Richard Wilson
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1954
Work: FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White Case
Category: National Reporting
UI Affiliation: Alumni
Don Ultang
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1952
Category: Photography
UI Affiliation: Alumni (BA)
Robert Penn Warren
Prize Year: 1979 & 1958
Work: Now and Then
Promise: Poems 1954-1956
Prize Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Karl Shapiro
![v-letter](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/30750673904.jpg?itok=s19nE7pq)
Prize Year: 1945
Work: V-Letter and Other Poems
Category: Poetry
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Marcus Lee Hansen
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1941
Work: The Atlantic Migration
Category: History
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA)
Frank Luther Mott
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1939
Work: A History of American Magazines
Category: History
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member
Josephine Johnson
![now in november cover](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2024-05/now-in-november-9781668004227_hr.jpg?itok=rbXOvwXJ)
Prize Year: 1935
Work: Now in November
Category: Fiction
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty
Fred Albert Shannon
![prize](/sites/writinguniversity.org/files/styles/medium/public/2021-11/prize.jpg?itok=ak34PxxH)
Prize Year: 1929
Work: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army
Category: History
UI Affiliation: Alumni (PHD)