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2006-12-02 05:34:34 · 4 answers · asked by harveymac1336 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The first woman to receive the awards was Ellen Taaffe Zwilich who won in 1983.
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Sorry - should have read more closely.
Edith Wharton "The Age of Innocence"
2006-12-02 05:36:19 · answer #1 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I found that in 1917 (which was the first year the awards were presented), Laura E. Richards won the Pulitzer Prize, but it wasn't for a novel, it was for a biography.
The first woman to win for a novel was Edith Wharton with The Age of Innocence in 1920.
http://edithwharton.org/edithwharton/3.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Pulitzer_Prize
2006-12-02 14:16:18 · answer #2 · answered by F.J. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pearl S.Buck ( born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker)was the
first woman to win a pulitzer prize in fiction in 1932 for the novel "Good Earth "
2006-12-02 13:53:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are talking about fiction it was Edith Warton for The Age of Innocence in 1921.
http://almaz.com/pulitzer/
2006-12-02 15:43:21 · answer #4 · answered by RECCHION 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋