- LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE April 14, 1999 Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize drama award for her play W;t. It is about a professor of 17th century poetry and her fight against ovarian cancer. Edson is an elementary school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia. 1999 Pulitzer Prizes for the Arts April 13, 1999: Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Michael Cunningham. April 9, 1999: The power of Johannes Sebastian ...www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/edson_4-14.html