Bernadotte Schmitt (1904) was a professor of history at Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Coming of the War: 1914. He …
Pulitzer Prize Winners
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John M. Hightower attended UT in Knoxville from 1927 to 1929. During his first year at the University of Tennessee, the native of Coal Creek, Tennessee, (now Lake City) edited a …
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John Netherland Heiskell (1893) was publisher and editor of the Arkansas Gazette from 1902 to 1972. Under his leadership, the Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service. He …
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Owen Davis, an 1889 graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Icebound in 1923.
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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 …
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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.
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John Noble Wilford (1955) has won two Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting. He is science correspondent for the New York Times and founder of the paper’s weekly science section.
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Ron Kirksey (1970), a Clinton, Tennessee native, won the Pulitzer prize for public service journalism in 1994 as part of a team at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal. Kirksey was …