Constance McLaughlin Green
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
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Mary McGrory
Pulitzer-winning journalist
Harper Lee
Harper Lee is recognized for her contribution to American literature with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Aretha Franklin
The “Queen of Soul”, twice named the greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone
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.