1918: Sara Teasdale, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for her work Love Songs.)[32] 1921: Zona Gale, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (for Miss Lulu Bett.)[33] 1921: Edith Wharton, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for the novel The Age of Innocence.)[34]