Category talk:Pulitzer Prize winners

Coverage
There are now only 6 pages in this category. All are biographies of people who won Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards for Arts or Letters, not Journalism.

This week I moved about 60 pages down into the subcategories, the general subcat and many particular subcats—biographies of people who didn't receive a Special in Arts or Letters, only a Special in Journalism or a particular PPrize.

Those 60 biographies and the few that remain here all include official references, ie PPrize references to particular pages under http://www.pulitzer.org — a mix of annual Winners pages, winners "by category" pages, and single-award pages that are available as "more details" from 1995.

All those biographies now have authority control data in their footers, too. (The one exception I recall is Jean Schneider, a research assistant who shared a prize as co-author. Evidently the US Library of Congress does not cover her, merely list her as a co-author of the particular book. Evidently I didn't even provide the official Prize reference for her ultra-stub, something I may return and do.)

There may be 1000 other biographies of so-called Pulitzer Prize winners down in the subcategories with the 60 that I have moved there. No doubt some belong up here in the top category because they won no Prize except the Special one. I have visited essentially none of the thousand so I vouch for none of their virtues. --P64 (talk) 19:35, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Biographies not in subcategories
There are 21 pages now in the category, all biographies (no main article). They represent winners of Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards for contributions in Arts and Letters.

Twelve of 21 were musicians, including Hammerstein who won the 1944 Prize for Oklahoma! in other roles. Schuman and Sessions also won the Music Pulitzer for single works within its traditional scope. Some appear in sections Pulitzer Prize for Music and Criticism, which are primarily about the scope of the Music prize. All except Rodgers and Hammerstein are identified at the foot of our list of Music prize winners.

Music (12)
 * 1982  Milton Babbitt
 * 2007  John Coltrane
 * 2008  Bob Dylan
 * 1999  Duke Ellington
 * 1998  George Gershwin
 * 1944  Oscar Hammerstein II – Oklahoma! librettist, etc
 * 1976  Scott Joplin
 * 2006  Thelonious Monk
 * 1944  Richard Rodgers – Oklahoma! composer
 * 1985  William Schuman – winner, 1943 Music Pulitzer
 * 1974  Roger Sessions – winner, 1982 Music Pulitzer
 * 2010  Hank Williams

Others (9)
 * 2007  Ray Bradbury
 * 1973  James Thomas Flexner
 * 1977  Alex Haley
 * 1960  Garrett Mattingly
 * 2006  Edmund Morgan (historian)
 * 1957  Kenneth Roberts (author)
 * 1984  Dr. Seuss
 * 1992  Art Spiegelman
 * 1978  E. B. White

By my count the official list of Special Pulitzers identifies 21 Awards for contributions to Arts and Letters rather than to Journalism, the Columbia School of Journalism, and the Prize program. The 21 biographies in the category, listed here, cover 20 of those prizes (with one pair of co-winners, Rodgers & Hammerstein). The other special prize for Arts and Letters is "1961: American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War A distinguished example of American book publishing." – text by Bruce Catton.

--P64 (talk) 21:17, 3 December 2013 (UTC)