As foreign correspondents, editors, musicians, poets, and novelists, distinguished alumni of IIE-administered programs have exposed people to countries they have never visited, lifestyles they could not imagine, and new ideas. As a direct result, people across the U.S. and around the world have gained a greater appreciation and understanding of the world outside their own community, from the shadows of apartheid in South Africa to U.S.-Mexico border relations. For their innovative work, so much a product of their own experiences in other countries and cultures, IIE recognizes the former grantees listed below who have won the Pulitzer Prize.

Prize Year Name Prize Category Grant Experience Grant Year 1943 George Weller Reporting Austria 1930-31 1944 Carleton Mabee Biography Japan 1953-54 1945 Aaron Copland Music Italy 1951 1949 Roy F. Nichols History India and Japan 1962 1949 Peter Viereck Poetry Italy 1954-56 1961 David H. Donald Biography Wales 1953-54 1965 Ernest Samuels Biography Belgium 1958-59 1966 Leslie Bassett Music France 1950-51 1967 David B. Davis General Non-Fiction India; Israel, Holland, Italy 1967; 1981 1968 Anthony Hecht Poetry Brazil 1971 1968 George Crumb Music Germany 1955-56 1969 Paul Greenberg Editorial Writing 1985 1969 Benjamin Reid Biography 1963-64 1970 Ada L. Huxtable Criticism Italy 1950-52 1970 Richard Howard Poetry 1972 Jacob Druckman Music France 1954 1972 James Wright Poetry Austria 1952-53 1973 Eudora Welty Fiction 1974 Daniel J. Boorstin History Italy; Japan 1950-51; 1957 1974 Donald Martino Music Italy 1954-56 1974 Hedrick Smith International Reporting England 1955-56 1974 Roger Sessions Music 1975 Dominick Argento Music Italy 1951-52 1976 Ned Rorem Music France 1951-52 1976 John Ashbery Poetry France 1955-57 1976 Alan M. Kriegsman Criticism Austria 1956-57 1976 R.W.B. Lewis Biography Germany 1957-58 1978 Meg Greenfield Editorial Writing England 1952-53 1982 John Updike Fiction Africa 1973 1982 Sylvia Plath Poetry England 1955-57 1982 Martin Bernheimer Criticism Germany 1958-59 1982 Roger Sessions Music 1983 Galway Kinnell Poetry Iran 1959-60 1986 Joseph Lelyveld General Non-Fiction Burma 1960-61 1987 Peter Taylor Fiction England 1955 1987 Rita Dove Poetry Germany 1974-75 1988 David H. Donald Biography Wales 1953-54 1989 Roger Reynolds Music Germany 1990 Charles Simic Poetry 1982 1990 Sebastian De Grazia Biography Italy 1950-52 1990 Allan Temko Criticism France 1952-53 1991 John Updike Fiction Africa 1973 1992 Wayne Peterson Music England 1953-54 1992 Robert Schenkkan Drama Italy 1962-63 1992 Jane Smiley Fiction Iceland 1976-77 1994 Eric Freedman Beat Reporting Uzbekistan 2002 1996 George Walker Music France 1957 1998 Paul Salopek Explanatory Reporting Mexico 1990 1998 Charles Wright Poetry Italy 1968-69 1998 Aaron Jay Kernis Music Ukraine 1999 Mark Strand Poetry Brazil; Italy 1965; 1960 2000 Bruce B. Finley Breaking News Reporting England 1984-85 2001 Daniel Grech Breaking News Reporting Argentina 2002 2001 Paul Salopek International Reporting Mexico 1990

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