Which author won more Pulitzer Prizes, John Kennedy Toole or Flannery O'Connor?
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John Kennedy Toole John Kennedy Toole ( ; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He also wrote "The Neon Bible". Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. After suffering from paranoia and depression due in part to these failures, he committed suicide at the age of 31.
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Flannery O'Connor Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. Her writing also reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Her posthumously compiled "Complete Stories" won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise.
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Donald L. Coburn Donald L. Coburn (born August 4, 1938) is an American dramatist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1978 for his play "The Gin Game".
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Kathleen Flenniken Kathleen Flenniken (born October 30, 1960) is an American writer, poet, editor, and educator. In 2012, she was named the Poet Laureate of Washington. She has been honored with a 2012 Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships with the Artist Trust (Washington State Arts Commission), and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her collection of poetry titled "Famous", received the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her following work, "Plume", was honored with the 2013 Washington State Book Award.
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Stetson Kennedy William Stetson Kennedy (October 5, 1916 – August 27, 2011) was an American author, folklorist, and human rights activist. One of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century, he is remembered for having infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world. His actions led to the 1947 revocation by the state of Georgia of the Klan's national corporate charter. Kennedy wrote or co-wrote ten books.
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James Alan McPherson James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Nelson C. Nye Nelson Coral Nye (1907–1997) was an American author, editor, and reviewer of Western fiction, and wrote non-fiction books on quarter horses. Besides Nelson C. Nye he also wrote fiction using the pseudonyms Clem Colt and Drake C. Denver. He wrote over 125 books, won two Spur Awards: one for best Western reviewer and critic, and one for his novel "Long Run", and in 1968 won the Saddleman Award for "“Outstanding Contributions to the American West.”
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John McNulty (journalist) John Augustine McNulty (1895-1956) was a U.S. journalist and author. John McNulty is a major figure in the development of the genre of literary journalism.
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Flannery O'Connor bibliography The bibliography of Flannery O'Connor includes two novels, more than thirty short stories, and several collections.
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Richard O'Kennedy Professor Richard O'Kennedy is an author and academic at Dublin City University.
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Aurelie Sheehan Aurelie Sheehan is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels, "History Lesson for Girls" and "The Anxiety of Everyday Objects", as well as a collection of stories, "Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant." She is an associate professor in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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Fintan O'Toole Fintan O'Toole (born 1958) is a columnist, literary editor and drama critic for "The Irish Times". He has written for the paper since 1988. O'Toole was drama critic for the "New York Daily News" from 1997 to 2001 and is a regular contributor to "The New York Review of Books". He is an author, literary critic, historical writer and political commentator, with generally left-wing views. His recent books have focused on the rise, fall and aftermath of Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger'. He has been a strong critic of political corruption in Ireland throughout his career.
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David Crouse David Crouse (born 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a short story writer and teacher. Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation, and his stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society. The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was awarded to him in 2005 for his first collection of short stories, "Copy Cats". Published in 2008, his most recent collection of stories, "The Man Back There", was awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize.
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Mary McNamara Mary McNamara (born 1963) is an American journalist and television critic for the "Los Angeles Times". She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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The Turkey "The Turkey" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis "The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories" and was published in "Mademoiselle" in 1948 as "The Capture." It later appeared in the 1971 collection "The Complete Stories" and a modified version appeared in her Complete Works in 1988 as An Afternoon in the Woods.
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Michelle Kennedy Hogan Michelle Kennedy Hogan (née Michelle Louise Kennedy, July 12, 1972) is an American author and editor.
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Elizabeth Becker Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning author and journalist who covered national and international affairs as a New York Times correspondent and was a member of the staff that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She was the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio where she received two DuPont-Columbia Awards as executive producer for reporting of South Africa’s first democratic elections and the Rwanda genocide. She began her career as a war correspondent for "The Washington Post" covering Cambodia. She is the author of "When the War Was Over, a modern history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge," for which she won a Robert F. Kennedy book citation.
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Hal Boyle Harold Vincent "Hal" Boyle (July 24, 1911 – April 1, 1974) was a prolific, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist for the Associated Press. During 30 years with the AP Boyle wrote 7,680 columns. He is best known for his work as a war correspondent during World War II. He was consistently closer to the front lines in the European and Pacific theatres of operation than other correspondents. His column became a staple in over 700 newspapers. He is also the namesake of a prize given annually to reporters by the Oversees Press Club of America, for the best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad.
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Dele Olojede Dele Olojede (born 1961 in Modakeke, Nigeria) is a Nigerian journalist and former foreign editor for "Newsday". Olojede was the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize and he is a patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature.
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Henry Francis Keenan Henry Francis Keenan (May 4, 1850(?) - March 7, 1928) was an American author, best known for his anonymously-published "The Money-Makers" (1885), a response to John Hay's "The Bread-Winners" (1883).
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Daniel Flannery Daniel Flannery (born 1952) is an American artist, creative producer, theatre director, scenographer, film/television director, director of photography and lighting designer.
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John Bersia John C. Bersia, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2000, is a global educator and commentator. He serves as Special Assistant to the President for Global Perspectives, as Director of the Global Perspectives Office and as a University Professor at the University of Central Florida. He is also the Executive Producer and host of the weekly "Global Perspectives Show" on WUCF-TV/PBS, and writes on foreign affairs.