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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ in the 1970s.
Theodore H. Roethke
This legendary Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ English professor won the 1954 prize in poetry for his work, The Waking.
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