Where Pulitzer Prize winners are buried
Wikidata records 127 Pulitzer Prize winners as buried in 103 of the cemeteries we list, across 33 states. Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA, holds the most, with 7.
People whose Wikidata entry records a Pulitzer Prize.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Pulitzer Prize winners and where they rest
- Ernest Hemingway1899-1961American author and journalistKetchum Cemetery, Ketchum, ID
- Toni Morrison1931-2019African American novelist, essayist, and academicSouth View Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
- Saul Bellow1915-2005Canadian-American writerMorningside Cemetery, Brattleboro, VT
- Ray Bradbury1920-2012American author and screenwriterWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Aretha Franklin1942-2018American singer, songwriter, and pianistWoodlawn Cemetery, Ferndale, MI
- Harper Lee1926-2016American novelistHillcrest Cemetery, Monroeville, AL
- Eugene O'Neill1888-1953American playwrightForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Tennessee Williams1911-1983American playwrightCalvary Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Roger Ebert1942-2013American film critic and authorGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Updike1932-2009American novelist, poetRobeson Lutheran Church Cemetery, Flying Hills, PA
- Philip Roth1933-2018American novelistBard College Cemetery, Tivoli, NY
- Duke Ellington1899-1974American jazz pianist and composerWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Norman Mailer1923-2007American writerProvincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, MA
- John Coltrane1926-1967American jazz saxophonistPinelawn Memorial Park, East Farmingdale, NY
- William Saroyan1908-1981Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writerMountain View Cemetery, Fresno, CA
- Scott Joplin1867-1917American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)Saint Michael's Cemetery, Manhattan, NY
- William Carlos Williams1883-1963American poetHillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst, NJ
- George F. Kennan1904-2005American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Thelonious Monk1917-1982American jazz pianist and composerFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- John J. Pershing1860-1948United States Army general in World War IArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Elizabeth Bishop1911-1979American poetHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Wallace Stevens1879-1955American poetCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Ornette Coleman1930-2015American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composerWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Dean Acheson1893-1971American statesman and lawyerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William Styron1925-2006American novelist and essayistWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- James A. Michener1907-1997American authorTexas State Cemetery, Austin, TX
- Anne Sexton1928-1974American poetForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Ida B. Wells1862-1931American journalist and civil rights activistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Samuel Barber1910-1981American composerThe Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
- Charles Ives1874-1954American modernist composerWooster Cemetery, Danbury, CT
- John Cheever1912-1982American novelist and short story writerFirst Parish Cemetery, Norwell, MA
- Marianne Moore1887-1972American poetEvergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA
- Eudora Welty1909-2001American short story writer, novelist and photographerGreenwood Cemetery, Jackson, MS
- Bernard Malamud1914-1986American authorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Herman Wouk1915-2019American writerBeth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
- Amy Lawrence Lowell1874-1925US writerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Gwendolyn Brooks1917-2000American writerLincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, IL
- Sara Teasdale1884-1933American writer and poetBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Frederick Jackson Turner1861-1932American historianForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- John Kennedy Toole1937-1969American novelistGreenwood Cemetery, Metairie, LA
- Art Buchwald1925-2007Journalist, humorist, United States MarineWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Conrad Aiken1889-1973American novelist and poetBonaventure Cemetery, Thunderbolt, GA
- Archibald MacLeish1892-1982American poet and Librarian of CongressPine Grove Cemetery, Conway, MA
- Marvin Hamlisch1944-2012American composer and conductorMount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY
- John Berryman1914-1972American poet and scholarResurrection Cemetery, Mendota Heights, MN
- Rube Goldberg1883-1970American cartoonistMount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY
- Theodore Roethke1908-1963American poetOakwood Cemetery, Shields, MI
- Arthur M. Schlesinger1917-2007American historian, social critic, and public intellectualMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Oscar Hammerstein II1895-1960American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicalsFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- William Inge1913-1973American playwright and novelistMount Hope Cemetery, Independence, KS
- Edwin Arlington Robinson1869-1935American poetOak Grove Cemetery, Gardiner, ME
- Richard Wilbur1921-2017American poetDawes Cemetery, Chesterfield, MA
- August Wilson1945-2005American playwrightGreenwood Cemetery, Sharpsburg, PA
- Susan Glaspell1876-1948American writerSnow Cemetery, Truro, MA
- Elliott Carter1908-2012American composerGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Sidney Howard1891-1939American playwrightTyringham Cemetery, Lee, MA
- William Safire1929-2009American journalist and presidential speechwriterKing David Memorial Gardens, Idylwood, VA
- Zona Gale1874-1938American author and playwrightSilver Lake Cemetery, Portage, WI
- Walter Piston1894-1976American composerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- James Truslow Adams1878-1949American writer and historianGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Roger Sessions1896-1985American composer, critic, and teacher of musicOld Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, MA
- MacKinlay Kantor1904-1977American journalist, novelist and screenwriterGraceland Cemetery, Webster City, IA
- Jean Stafford1915-1979American authorGreen River Cemetery, Springs, NY
- Ernst Toch1887-1964Austrian composerWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Morton Gould1913-1996American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianistNew Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, NY
- Bernard Bailyn1922-2020American historianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- George Perle1915-2009American composerCalverton National Cemetery, Calverton, NY
- John Gould Fletcher1886-1950American writerMount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, AR
- Owen Davis1874-1956American dramatistFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- Paul Green1894-1981American playwrightOld Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, NC
- William Allen White1868-1944American newspaper editor and Progressive leaderMaplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, KS
- Moss Hart1904-1961American playwright, librettist, and theatre directorFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- Bill Mauldin1921-2003American editorial cartoonistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- George Kelly1887-1974American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actorWestminister Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- James Alan McPherson1943-2016American short story writer and essayistOakland Cemetery, Iowa City, IA
- Esther Forbes1891-1967NovelistPine Grove Cemetery, Westborough, MA
- Kenneth Roberts1885-1957American writerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- William Rose Benét1886-1950American writerFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- Jesse Lynch Williams1871-1929American dramatistLindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, IN
- Peter Viereck1916-2006American historian and poetEvergreen Cemetery, South Hadley, MA
- William Sowden Sims1858-1936United States admiralArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Leon Kirchner1919-2009American composerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Jimmy Breslin1928-2017American journalist and authorSaint John Cemetery, Queens, NY
- Bruce Catton1899-1978American historian and journalistBenzonia Township Cemetery, Beulah, MI
- Paul Zindel1936-2003American dramatist and children's writerMoravian Cemetery, Staten Island, NY
- Justin Harvey Smith1857-1930American historianPlains Cemetery, Boscawen, NH
- Douglas Moore1893-1969American composerCutchogue Cemetery, Cutchogue, NY
- Mike Royko1932-1997American writer and newspaper columnistAcacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Norridge, IL
- Thomas M. Storke1876-1971American politicianSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- George Walker1922-2018American classical composerMount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, NJ
- Jay Norwood Darling1876-1962American editorial cartoonistLogan Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA
- Paul Conrad1924-2010American political cartoonist and sculptorGreen Hills Memorial Park, Lomita, CA
- Marcus Lee Hansen1892-1938American historianNewell Cemetery, Storm Lake, IA
- Clifford K. Berryman1869-1949American cartoonistThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John T. McCutcheon1870-1949American cartoonistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- James MacGregor Burns1918-2014American historian and political scientistCollege Cemetery, Williamstown, MA
- Leonard Bacon1887-1954American poet, translator, and literary criticSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- John S. Knight1894-1981American newspaper publisherRose Hill Burial Park, Fairlawn, OH
- Audrey Wurdemann1911-1960American poetFlagler Memorial Park, Miami, FL
- Rollin Kirby1875-1952American political cartoonistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, NE
- Tad Mosel1922-2008American playwrightWildwood Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Rudolph F. Zallinger1919-1995American painterGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Robert P. T. Coffin1892-1955American writerCranberryhorn Cemetery, Harpswell Center, ME
- Paul Herman Buck1899-1978American historianGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Leon Litwack1929-2021American historianSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Louis Isaac Jaffe1888-1950American journalistCedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
- R. Carlyle Buley1893-1968American historianBeech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, IN
- Michael Kammen1936-2013American historianPleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
- Lenoir Chambers1891-1970American journalistForest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
- Hodding Carter1907-1972American writerGreenville Cemetery, Greenville, MS
- Vance Trimble1913-2021American journalistOakwood Cemetery, Wewoka, OK
- Don Whitehead1908-1981American journalistResthaven Cemetery, Harlan, KY
- George David Beveridge Jr.1922-1987American journalistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Jim Murray1919-1998American journalistHoly Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- Westbrook Pegler1894-1969American investigative journalistGate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- Virginius Dabney1901-1995American journalistHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Byron Price1891-1981American journalist, government officialRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Ralph McGill1898-1969American journalistWestview Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
- Eugene Patterson1923-2013JournalistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ray Sprigle1886-1957American journalistChrist Our Redeemer Catholic Cemetery, West View, PA
- Royce Howes1901-1973American journalistElmwood Cemetery, Detroit, MI
- William H. Goetzmann1930-2010American historian of philosophyGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Richard L. Wilson1905-1981American journalistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William Raspberry1935-2012American journalistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Joseph O'Neill1889-1953American journalistGreenfield Cemetery, Uniondale, NY
- Thomas Lunsford Stokes1898-1958American journalistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- James Silas Pooler Jr.1903-1967American newspaper columnistHoly Sepulchre Cemetery, Farmington Hills, MI
Showing the 127 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 127. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Deaths by decade
- 1910s1
- 1920s2
- 1930s9
- 1940s6
- 1950s14
- 1960s16
- 1970s19
- 1980s14
- 1990s6
- 2000s17
- 2010s20
- 2020s3
By recorded year of death, for the 127 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA7
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA6
- Ferncliff Cemetery · Greenburgh, NY5
- Rock Creek Cemetery · Washington, DC3
- Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, IL2
- Westwood Memorial Park · Santa Monica, CA2
- Forest Hills Cemetery · Roslindale, MA2
- Green - Wood Cemetery · Brooklyn, NY2
- Woodlawn Cemetery · The Bronx, NY2
- Grove Street Cemetery · New Haven, CT2
- West Chop Cemetery · Vineyard Haven, MA2
- Calvary Cemetery · Saint Louis, MO1
- Bellefontaine Cemetery · Saint Louis, MO1
- Westminister Cemetery · Bala Cynwyd, PA1
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Washington, DC1
- Calverton National Cemetery · Calverton, NY1
- New Montefiore Cemetery · West Babylon, NY1
- Mount Zion Cemetery · Maspeth, NY1
- The Glenwood Cemetery · Washington, DC1
- Saint John Cemetery · Queens, NY1
- Westview Cemetery · Atlanta, GA1
- Flagler Memorial Park · Miami, FL1
- Princeton Cemetery · Princeton, NJ1
- Lindenwood Cemetery · Fort Wayne, IN1
- Lincoln Cemetery · Blue Island, IL1
Top 25 of 103 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
Pulitzer Prize winners by state
- Alabama1
- Arkansas1
- California7
- Connecticut4
- District of Columbia5
- Florida1
- Georgia3
- Idaho1
- Illinois5
- Indiana2
- Iowa4
- Kansas2
- Kentucky1
- Louisiana1
- Maine2
- Massachusetts22
- Michigan5
- Minnesota1
- Mississippi2
- Missouri2
- Nebraska1
- New Hampshire1
- New Jersey3
- New York24
- North Carolina1
- Ohio2
- Oklahoma1
- Pennsylvania6
- Rhode Island1
- Texas1
- Vermont1
- Virginia11
- Wisconsin2
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How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.