Serious Posts for the Uninformed, Part 2

Sorority Women Who Have Won Pulitzer Prizes

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Kappa Delta, Randolph Macon University, Novel (1932), The Good Earth.

Shirley Christian, Alpha Delta Pi, Pittsburg State University, International Reporting (1981). Her dispatches from Central America appeared in The Miami Herald.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Delta Delta Delta, Colby College, History (1995), No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.

Marguerite Higgins Hall, Gamma Phi Beta, University of California – Berkeley, International Reporting (1951). She was the only woman in a group of six reporters who received the award for their work on the reporting of the Korean War. She was also the first woman to win in that category. She worked for the New York Herald Tribune at the time.