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University of Iowa Affiliated Pulitzer Prize Winners

Jayne Anne Phillips 

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Prize Year: 2024    
Work: Night Watch   
Prize Category: Fiction       
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)   

 

 


Forrest Gander  

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Prize Year: 2019    
Work: Be With   
Prize Category: Poetry       
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty    

 

 


Andrew Sean Greer  

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Prize Year: 2018    
Work: Less    
Prize Category: Fiction       
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty    

 

 


Paul Harding 

Tinkers cover

Prize Year: 2010   
Work: Tinkers    
Prize Category: Fiction    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member   
 

 

 


David Lang

sheet music

Prize Year: 2008   
Work: The Little Match Girl Passion    
Prize Category: Music    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA)     
 

 

 


Philip Schultz

failure cover

Prize Year: 2008   
Work: Failure    
Prize Category: Poetry   
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)      

 

 


Robert Hass

time and materials cover

Prize Year: 2008    
Work: Time and Materials    
Prize Category: Poetry       
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty  


 

 


Marilynne Robinson

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Prize Year: 2005   
Work: Gilead    
Category: Fiction    
UI Affiiation: Faculty Member 
 

 

 


Nilo Cruz

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Prize Year: 2003    
Work: Anna in the Tropics   
Category: Drama       
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty

 

 

 


Mark Strand

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Prize Year: 1999    
Work: Blizzard of One    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation:  Alumni (MA & PHD), Faculty Member    

 

 

 


Michael Cunningham

the hours cover

 Prize Year: 1999  
Work: The Hours   
Category: Fiction    
UI Affiliation: MFA    
 

 

 


Charles Wright

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Prize Year: 1998    
Work: Black Zodiac   
Category: Poetry   
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)      

 

 

 


Phillip Roth

american pastoral cover

Prize Year: 1998    
Work: American Pastoral   
Category: Fiction        
UI Affiliation: Visiting Professor

 

 

 


Jorie Graham

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Prize Year: 1996    
Work: The Dream of the Unified Field    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member   

 

 

 


Philip Levine

the simple truth

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

Prize Year: 1993    
Work: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 
Category: Fiction   
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)   
 

 

 


Louise Glück

the wild iris

Prize Year: 1993   
Work: The Wild Iris    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member 

 

 

 


Mike Toner

prize

Prize Year: 1993    
Work: When Bugs Bite Back   
Category: Explanatory Journalism    
UI Affiliation: BA       
 

 

 


James Tate

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Prize Year: 1992   
Work: Selected Poems    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA),  Faculty Member  

 

 

 


Jane Smiley

thousand acres

Prize Year: 1992    
Work: A Thousand Acres    
Category: Fiction        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member 

 

 

 


Mona Van Duyn

near changes cover

Prize Year: 1991    
Work: Near Changes    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA & PHD)      

 

 

 


Rita Dove

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Prize Year: 1987    
Work: Thomas and Beulah    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation:  Alumni (MFA)     

 

 

 


 

John Camp (John Sandford)

 

prize

 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

Prize Year: 1985    
Work: Yin   
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member    

 

 

 


Paul Conrad

prize

Prize Year: 1984, 1971, 1964        
Prize Category: Editorial Cartooning    
UI Degree: BA       
 

 

 

 


Dick Locher

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Prize Year: 1983        
Category: Editorial Cartooning   
UI Affiliation: Former student      
 

 

 

 



Galway Kinnell

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Prize Year: 1983    
Work: Selected Poems    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member    

 

 

 


Tracy Kidder

soul

Prize Year: 1982    
Work: The Soul of a New Machine   Category: General Nonfiction   
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)       

 

 

 


Donald Justice

justice

Prize Year: 1980    
Work: Selected Poems    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (PHD), Faculty Member    

 

 

 


John Cheever

cheever

Prize Year: 1979    
Work: The Stories of John Cheever   
Category: Fiction        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member  

 

 

 


James Alan McPherson

elbow room

Prize Year: 1978    
Work: Elbow Room    
Category: Fiction    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty      

 

 

 


Robert Lowell

dolphin

Prize Year: 1974    
Work: The Dolphin   
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member    

 

 

 


Wallace Stegner

angle of repose

Prize Year: 1972    
Work: Angle of Repose    
Category: Fiction    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA & PHD)       

 

 

 


Marquis Childs

prize

Prize Year: 1970   
Work: Distinguished Commentary during 1969   
Category: Commentary        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member   

 

 

 


Anthony Hecht

the hard hours

Prize Year: 1968    
Work: The Hard Hours    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA),  Faculty Member    

 

 

 


John Berryman

77 dream songs

Prize Year: 1965    
Work: 77 Dream Songs    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member

 

 

 


W.D. Snodgrass

heart's needle

Prize Year: 1960    
Work: Heart’s Needle    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member

 

 

 


Tennessee Williams

cat on a hot tin roof

Prize Year: 1955    
Work: Cat on A Hot Tin Roof    
Category: Drama    
UI Affiliation: BA       

 

 

 


Richard Wilson

prize

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

Prize Year: 1952        
Category: Photography    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (BA)      

 

 

 


Robert Penn Warren

now and then

Prize Year: 1979 & 1958   
Work: Now and Then
           Promise: Poems 1954-1956  
Prize Category: Poetry       
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member  

 

 

 


Karl Shapiro

v-letter

Prize Year: 1945   
Work: V-Letter and Other Poems    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member    

 

 

 


Marcus Lee Hansen

prize

Prize Year: 1941    
Work: The Atlantic Migration    
Category: History        
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA)   

 

 

 


Frank Luther Mott

prize

Prize Year: 1939    
Work: A History of American Magazines
Category: History       
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member  

 

 

 


Josephine Johnson

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Prize Year: 1935    
Work: Now in November    
Category: Fiction        
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty  
 

 

 



Fred Albert Shannon

prize

Prize Year: 1929    
Work: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army    
Category: History    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (PHD)