Cormac McCarthy is a novelist who attended UT in Knoxville in 1951-52 and 1957-60. He won the National Book Award in 1992 for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road.
Delores Ziegler (1979) is an opera singer who has performed with Luciano Pavarotti and with major U.S. and European symphonies.
Edward Osborne Wilson, who attended UTK from 1950 to 1951, won two Pulitzer Prizes for nonfiction for his books On Human Nature and The Ants.