Pulitzer Prize (1950-1959)

1950: Gian Carlo Menotti

1951: Douglas Stuart Moore

1952: Gail Kubik

1953: -no prize awarded-

1954: Quincy Porter

1955: Gian Carlo Menotti

1956: Ernst Toch

1957: Norman Dello Joio

1958: Samuel Barber

1959: John La Montaine