PULITZER PRIZE
William Bolcom, '58
He won the 1988 prize in music for his composition "12 New Etudes for Piano."
James Wright, '54, '59
A student of Theodore Roethke, James Wright won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his Collected Poems.
Robert Cahn, '38
A Christian Science Monitor reporter, he won a 1969 prize in national reporting for his series on the future of U.S. national parks and how to preserve them.
Ed Guthman, '41, '44
This Seattle Times reporter won a 1950 prize in national reporting for his work exonerating UW Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a Communist training school.
David Horsey, '75
This former Daily editor won the 1999 prize in editorial cartooning for his work at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Mike Luckovich, '82
A former Daily staffer, he won the 1995 prize in editorial cartooning for his work at the Atlanta Constitution.
Eric Nalder, '68
The only UW alumnus to win two Pulitzers, this former Seattle Times reporter's first came in 1990 in national reporting for co-writing the coverage on the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. The second for investigative reporting came in 1997 for a series he co-wrote on corruption in a federal housing program for Native Americans.
 | ... that only one UW alumnus has ever won an Oscar. John Monk Saunders, '19, wrote the story for Dawn Patrol, a Howard Hawks war film that won the 1931 best screenplay award. |
Vernon Louis Parrington
The UW historian won the 1928 prize in history for his work Main Currents in American Thought.
Peter Rinearson
A Seattle Times reporter, he won the 1984 prize in feature writing for his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner, "Making It Fly." He attended the UW in the 1970s.
Theodore H. Roethke
This legendary UW English professor won the 1954 prize in poetry for his work, The Waking.
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