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The “Queen of Soul”, twice named the greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone
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Jhumpa Lahiri
In her works of fiction, Dr. Lahiri has illuminated the Indian-American experience in beautifully wrought narratives of estrangement and belonging.
Margaret Edson
Margaret Edson, a playwright and kindergarten teacher in Atlanta, is best known for Wit, a play about a literary scholar diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999.
Tracy K Smith
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2017-2019
Anne O’Hare McCormick
The first woman on the editorial board of the New York Times (NYT) (1936-54) and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence (1937)
Natasha Trethewey
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2014
Annette Gordon-Reed
No historian has done more to recover the stories of enslaved African-Americans than Annette Gordon-Reed, whose 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as wide acclaim.
Signe Wilkinson
As her cartoons for Ms. Magazine in the 1980s demonstrate, Signe Wilkinson addressed women’s issues early in her career.
Ann Telnaes
In 2001 Ann Telnaes became the second woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
Sylvia Plath
American poet and novelist.