Editing Brown University (section)

====Author prizewinners====
Alumni authors take their degrees across the spectrum of degree concentrations, but a gauge of the strength of writing at Brown is the number of major national writing prizes won. To note only winners since the year 2000: [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]-winners [[Jeffrey Eugenides]] '82 (2003), [[Marilynne Robinson]] '66 (2005), and [[Andrew Sean Greer]] '92 (2018); British [[Orange Prize]]-winners [[Marilynne Robinson]] '66 (2009) and [[Madeline Miller]] '00 (2012); [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]-winners [[Nilo Cruz]] '94 (2003), [[Lynn Nottage]] '86 (twice, 2009, 2017), [[Quiara Alegría Hudes]] '04 (2012), [[Ayad Akhtar]] '93 (2013), and [[Jackie Sibblies Drury]] MFA '04 (2019); [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Pulitzer Prize for Biography]]-winners [[David Kertzer]] '69 (2015) and [[Benjamin Moser]] '98 (2020); [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize for Journalism]]-winners [[James Risen]] '77 (2006), [[Gareth Cook]] '91 (2005), [[Tony Horwitz]] '80 (1995), [[Usha Lee McFarling]] '89 (2007), [[David Rohde]] '90 (1996), [[Kathryn Schulz]] '96 (2016), and [[Alissa J. Rubin]] '80 (2016); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]]-winner [[James Forman Jr.]] '88 (2018); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|Pulitzer Prize for History]]-winner [[Marcia Chatelain]] PhD '08 (2021); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|Pulitzer Prize for Criticism]]-winner [[Salamishah Tillet]] MAT '97 (2022); and [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]-winner [[Peter Balakian]] PhD '80 (2016)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lutts |first=Chloe |date=2006-07-16 |title=Four Brown alums win 2006 Pulitzers |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2006/07/16/four-brown-alums-win-2006-pulitzers/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506091149/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2006/07/16/four-brown-alums-win-2006-pulitzers/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ryan |first=Cate |date=2019-04-16 |title=University alums win four Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/04/16/university-alums-win-four-pulitzer-prizes/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531200257/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/04/16/university-alums-win-four-pulitzer-prizes/ |url-status=live}}</ref>