War diplomat; architect of "containment" strategy (also listed in Government: Other) Galway Kinnell, A.B. 1948 – Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet Arthur Krock, A.B. 1908 – two-time Pulitzer Prize winner while writing for The New York Times in the 1930s John Matteson, A.B. 1983 – Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography in 2008 for Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherCharles McIlwain, A.B.1894 – Pulitzer Prize for history in 1924; professor at Princeton John McPhee, A.B. 1953 – Humanities Council professor, 1999 Pulitzer Prize recipient James M. McPherson – Professor of History; Pulitzer Prize winner in 1989 for Battle Cry of FreedomW. S. Merwin, A.B. 1948 – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator Steven Naifeh, A.B. 1974 – Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography in 1991 for Jackson Pollock: An American SagaEugene O'Neill, class of 1910 (did not graduate) – Nobel laureate (Literature 1936), three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Ralph Barton Perry, A.B. 1896 – Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1936, professor at Harvard University Ernest Poole, A.B. 1902 – Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918 David Remnick, A.B. 1981 – Pulitzer Prize Winner for general non-fiction in 1994 for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire; general editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998 Booth Tarkington, A.B. 1893 – two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice AdamsWilliam W. Warner, 1943 – science writer, Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1977 for Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake BayThornton Wilder M.A. 1925 – three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, once for fiction and twice for drama; National Book Award winner; Our Town premiered at Princeton George F. Will, Ph.D. 1968 – Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977 Jesse Lynch Williams, A.B. 1892 – Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1918 Journalism Joel Achenbach, A.B. 1982 – writer for The Washington Post and author of the Post's AchenblogR. W. Apple, Jr., A.B. 1957 – writer for The New York TimesHamilton Fish Armstrong, A.B. 1914 – editor of Foreign PolicyWilliam Attwood, A.B. 1941 – U.S. Ambassador and publisher of NewsdayKate Betts, A.B. 1986 – editor-in-chief of Harper's BazaarJohn Brooks, A.B. 1942 – author and staff member, The New YorkerRobert Caro, A.B. 1957 – Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer Patrick Chovanec, A.B. 1993 – commentator on the economy of China in Western media Lisa R. Cohen – Ferris professor of journalism, Emmy-winning television producer, author Burton Crane, 1922