LITERATURE
Awards
Authors with the Most Pulitzer Prize Award Wins
This list features the authors that have been awarded the most Pulitzer Prizes in all categories in history.
RANK | AUTHOR | AWARD WINS | CATEGORY | WINNING WORKS |
1 | Robert Frost | 4 | Poetry (4) | New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924) Collected Poems (1931) A Further Range (1937) A Witness Tree (1943) |
2 | Eugene O’Neill | 4 | Drama (4) | Beyond the Horizon (1920) Anna Christie (1922) Strange Interlude (1928) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1957) |
3 | Robert E. Sherwood | 4 | Drama (3) Biography (1)* | Idiot’s Delight (1926) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939) There Shall Be No Night (1941) Roosevelt and Hopkins (1949)* |
4 | Edward Albee | 3 | Drama (3) | A Delicate Balance (1967) Seascape (1975) Three Tall Women (1994) |
5 | Archibald MacLeish | 3 | Poetry (2) Drama (1)* | Conquistador (1933) Collected Poems 1917-1952 (1953) J.B. (1959)* |
6 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | 3 | Poetry (3) | Collected Poems (1922) The Man Who Died Twice (1925) Tristram (1928) |
7 | Carl Sandburg | 3 | Poetry (2) History (1)* | Cornhuskers (1919) Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1940)* Complete Poems (1951); |
8 | Robert Penn Warren | 3 | Poetry (2) Fiction (1)* | All the King’s Men (1947)* Promises: Poems 1954-1956 (1958) Now and Then (1979) |
9 | Thornton Wilder | 3 | Drama (2) Novel (1)* | The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928)* Our Town (1938) The Skin of Our Teeth (1943) |
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