Carolyn Kizer
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1985 Pulitzer for Yin. Former faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
John R. Camp
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Mona Van Duyn
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James Tate
Sheba R. Wheeler
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Current faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 1977 Pulitzer for Elbow Room. MFA, 1969.
Jorie Graham
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2000 Pulitzer for her contributions to a team of Denver Post reporters covering the Columbine High School tragedy. BA, 1996.
1992 Pulitzer for Selected Poems. MFA, 1967.
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1999 Pulitzer for Blizzard of One. MA, 1962; former faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
1992 Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres, a contemporary re-imagining of King Lear set on an Iowa farmstead. MA, 1975; MFA, English, 1976; PhD, English, 1978.
Cartoonist win in 1983 Pulitzer for his work at the Chicago Tribune. Former UI student, 1948.
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1999 Pulitzer for The Hours. MFA, English, 1980.
Mark Strand Jane Smiley
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James Alan McPherson
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Waterloo, IA native and former Poet Laureate of the U.S. won a 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Near Changes. MA, English, 1943.
1986 Pulitzer in feature writing for a series on a farming family in the Pioneer Press Dispatch. BA, American Civilization, 1966; MA, Journalism and Mass Communication, 1971.
Dick Locher
Michael Cunningham
Marilynne Robinson F P
2005 Pulitzer for Gilead. Current faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
1996 Pulitzer for The Dream of the Unified Field. MFA, English, 1978. Former faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Philip Schultz Donald R. Justice
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1980 Pulitzer for Selected Poems. PhD, English, 1954; former faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Robert Olen Butler
1993 Pulitzer for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. MA, Theatre, 1969.
Louise GlĂźck Rita Dove
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Former Poet Laureate of the U.S. won a 1987 Pulitzer for Thomas and Beulah. MFA, 1977.
Tracy Kidder
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1982 Pulitzer in general nonfiction for Soul of a New Machine. MFA, 1974.
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1993 Pulitzer for The Wild Iris. Former faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Steve Berry
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1993 Pulitzer for investigative reporting while at the Orlando Sentinel. Current UI journalism faculty member.
Michael F. Toner
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2008 Pulitzer for Failure. MFA, 1971.
Robert Hass
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Former Poet Laureate of the U.S. won a 2008 Pulitzer for Time and Materials. Frequent visiting Writers' Workshop faculty member.
Philip Roth
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1998 Pulitzer for American Pastoral. Former faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Charles Wright
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1998 Pulitzer for Black Zodiac. MFA, 1963.
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1993 Pulitzer for explanatory journalism in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, When Bugs Bite Back. BA, Journalism and Mass Communication, 1966.
Philip Levine
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1995 Pulitzer for The Simple Truth. MFA, 1957; former faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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