List of Oberlin College Alumni - Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

• Carl Dennis (transferred to University of Chicago, University of Minnesota), Pulitzer prize-winning poet of Practical Gods; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
• Michael Dirda (BA 1970), Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reviewer, author.
• Franz Wright (BA 1977), recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Walking to Martha's Vineyard').
• George Walker (1941, honorary degree 1983), composer, the first African American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music (1996, for Lilacs).
• Thornton Wilder (transferred to Yale), playwright and novelist; three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth; U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day