Owen Davis, an 1889 graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Icebound in 1923.

Bernadotte Schmitt (1904) was a professor of history at Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Coming of the War: 1914. He was president of the American Historical Association.

James M. Hightower attended UT in Knoxville from 1927 to 1929. He won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1952.

John Netherland Heiskell (1893) was publisher and editor of the Arkansas Gazette from 1902 to 1972. Under his leadership, the Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service. He received numerous national awards for journalistic excellence.

Owen Davis, an 1889 graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Icebound in 1923.

Cormac McCarthy is a novelist who attended UT in Knoxville in 1951-52 and 1957-60. He won the National Book Award in 1992 for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road.

Edward Osborne Wilson, who attended UTK from 1950 to 1951, won two Pulitzer Prizes for nonfiction for his books On Human Nature and The Ants.

John Noble Wilford (1955) has won two Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting. He is science correspondent for the New York Times and founder of the paper’s weekly science section.

Ron Kirksey (1970), a Clinton, Tennessee native, won the Pulitzer prize for public service journalism in 1994 as part of a team at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal. Kirksey was lead writer.