Category talk:Pulitzer Prize winners

Coverage

There are now only 6 pages in this category. All are biographies of people who won Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards for Arts or Letters, not Journalism.

This week I moved about 60 pages down into the subcategories, the general subcat Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism and many particular subcats—biographies of people who didn't receive a Special in Arts or Letters, only a Special in Journalism or a particular PPrize.

Those 60 biographies and the few that remain here all include official references, ie PPrize references to particular pages under http://www.pulitzer.org — a mix of annual Winners pages, winners "by category" pages, and single-award pages that are available as "more details" from 1995.

All those biographies now have authority control data in their footers, too. (The one exception I recall is Jean Schneider, a research assistant who shared a prize as co-author. Evidently the US Library of Congress does not cover her, merely list her as a co-author of the particular book. Evidently I didn't even provide the official Prize reference for her ultra-stub, something I may return and do.)

There may be 1000 other biographies of so-called Pulitzer Prize winners down in the subcategories with the 60 that I have moved there. No doubt some belong up here in the top category because they won no Prize except the Special one. I have visited essentially none of the thousand so I vouch for none of their virtues.

--P64 (talk) 19:35, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Biographies not in subcategories

There are 21 pages now in the category, all biographies (no main article). They represent winners of Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards for contributions in Arts and Letters.

Twelve of 21 were musicians, including Hammerstein who won the 1944 Prize for Oklahoma! in other roles. Schuman and Sessions also won the Music Pulitzer for single works within its traditional scope. Some appear in sections Pulitzer Prize for Music#History and Criticism, which are primarily about the scope of the Music prize. All except Rodgers and Hammerstein are identified at the foot of our list of Music prize winners.

Music (12)

1982 Milton Babbitt

2007 John Coltrane

2008 Bob Dylan

1999 Duke Ellington

1998 George Gershwin

1944 Oscar Hammerstein II – Oklahoma! librettist, etc

1976 Scott Joplin

2006 Thelonious Monk

1944 Richard Rodgers – Oklahoma! composer

1985 William Schuman – winner, 1943 Music Pulitzer

1974 Roger Sessions – winner, 1982 Music Pulitzer

2010 Hank Williams

Others (9)

2007 Ray Bradbury

1973 James Thomas Flexner

1977 Alex Haley

1960 Garrett Mattingly

2006 Edmund Morgan (historian)

1957 Kenneth Roberts (author)

1984 Dr. Seuss

1992 Art Spiegelman

1978 E. B. White

By my count the official list of Special Pulitzers identifies 21 Awards for contributions to Arts and Letters rather than to Journalism, the Columbia School of Journalism, and the Prize program. The 21 biographies in the category, listed here, cover 20 of those prizes (with one pair of co-winners, Rodgers & Hammerstein). The other special prize for Arts and Letters is "1961: American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War A distinguished example of American book publishing." – text by Bruce Catton.

--P64 (talk) 21:17, 3 December 2013 (UTC)