The list of Yale affiliates who have received Pulitzer Prizes in recent years grew longer this month with the announcement that School of Drama teacher Nilo Cruz and alumna Samantha Power have won the prestigious award.
Cruz won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play "Anna in the Tropics." (See story.) Power, a 1992 graduate of Yale College, received the Pulitzer in the General Nonfiction category for her work "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide."
Also this year, two Yale affiliates were finalists for a Pulizter: J.D. McClatchy, professor (adjunct) in the English Department and editor of the Yale Review, for his collection
of poems, "Hazmat," and Law School student Adam Haslett for his short-story collection "You Are Not a Stranger Here."
Previous Yale-affiliated winners included David McCullough '55 B.A., who won his second Pulitzer for his biography "John Adams" in 2002. His life of Harry Truman had garnered him the prize in 1993.
Donald Margulies, who teaches screenplay and playwriting at Yale, also won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2002 for "Dinner with Friends."
In 2000, four alumni won: David M. Kennedy '68 Ph.D., for his book "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War"; Lewis Spratlan '62 B.A., '65 Mus.M., for his music; J.R. Moehringer '86 B.A., for his feature writing in the Los Angeles Times; and Mark Shoofs '85 B.A., for his writing in the Village Voice.
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