1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie 1950 · Pulitzer Prize · Fiction South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan 1950 · Pulitzer Prize · Drama Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti 1950 · Pulitzer Prize · Music John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis 1950 · Pulitzer Prize · Biography Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin 1950 · Pulitzer Prize · History Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks 1950 · Pulitzer Prize · Poetry