Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzers are awarded in journalism, books, drama, and music. This topic is part of Awards within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 29 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Pulitzer Prize trivia questions
The Pulitzer Prize honors achievements especially in journalism and what?
Answer: Letters and music
Bonus fact: Pulitzers are awarded in journalism, books, drama, and music.
The Pulitzer Prizes are administered by which university?
Answer: Columbia University
Bonus fact: The Pulitzer Board is based at Columbia.
Who established the Pulitzer Prizes through his will?
Answer: Joseph Pulitzer
Bonus fact: Pulitzer was a newspaper publisher.
Which Art Spiegelman graphic novel about the Holocaust won a special Pulitzer Prize?
Answer: Maus
Bonus fact: Maus depicts people as different animal species.
Pearl S. Buck wrote which Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Chinese farmers?
Answer: The Good Earth
Bonus fact: The novel follows Wang Lung and his family.
Which Whitehead novel won the Pulitzer Prize and imagines a literal underground railroad?
Answer: The Underground Railroad
Bonus fact: The novel won the 2017 Pulitzer.
Which second Whitehead novel also won the Pulitzer Prize?
Answer: The Nickel Boys
Bonus fact: Whitehead became one of the few writers to win two Pulitzers for fiction.
In what year did Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Answer: 1961
Bonus fact: The Pulitzer organization lists Harper Lee as the 1961 Fiction winner for To Kill a Mockingbird.
Which Aaron Copland work won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize in Music?
Answer: Appalachian Spring
Bonus fact: The Library of Congress says Copland's name became synonymous with Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man.
Who was the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks
Bonus fact: Brooks wrote more than 20 books and became closely associated with Chicago literary life.
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in what year?
Answer: 1988
Bonus fact: Beloved was published in 1987, and Morrison later received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
In what year did Beloved win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Answer: 1988
Bonus fact: The Pulitzer page lists Diane Johnson and Alice McDermott as the other 1988 Fiction finalists.