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The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of seven Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually in Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first given in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year, and this was eventually converted into a prize: "For a distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States ...
Music portal; These composers have won the American Pulitzer Prize for Music, which annually recognizes a distinguished musical contribution by an American that had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year. For articles on their prize-winning music, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for Music–winning works.
For biographies of the composers, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for Music winners. Pages in category "Pulitzer Prize for Music–winning works" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
Journalist Drew Pearson claimed on an episode of The Mike Wallace Interview which aired in December 1957 [37] that "John F. Kennedy is the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that was ghostwritten for him" and that his speechwriter Ted Sorensen was the book's actual author, though his claim later was retracted by ...
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwriter, profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.
He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral, titled A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
History: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press). Biography or Autobiography: Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy . Poetry: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur . Music:
Joseph Kraft (1947), American journalist and speechwriter for John F. Kennedy; Lawrence K. Grossman (1952), president of PBS from 1976 to 1984 and NBC News from 1985 to 1988; Robert Neil Butler (1949), president of the International Longevity Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction