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    How many people have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize posthumously?

    Question #69997. Asked by NathaNsc. (Aug 23 06 10:42 AM)


    gdec1

    		9
    Wilfred C. Barber
    James Agee
    Scott Joplin
    David M. Potter
    John Kennedy Toole
    Sylvia Plath
    George Gershwin
    Duke Ellington
    Thelonious Monk
    http://www.pulitzer.org/

    Aug 23 06, 12:33 PM
    NathaNsc

    		Hmmm.. was there a specific page on the site that listed who? I know that Jonathan Larson won posthumously for Rent in the 1996 drama category. He died on opening night hours before the first performance. That's the story that got me interested in asking this question.

    Aug 23 06, 5:13 PM

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