In the wake of John Byrne's reboot of Superman continuity in The Man of Steel, many traditional aspects of Clark Kent were dropped in favor of giving him a more aggressive and extroverted personality ( although not as strong as Lois ), including such aspects as making Clark a top football player in high school, along with being a successful author and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

John Coolidge Adams ( born February 15, 1947 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism.

John Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his 9 / 11 memorial piece, On the Transmigration of Souls.

* 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

** John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer

This is not the view of Jeremy Wilson, The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence ( ISBN 0-689-11934-8 ) or the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography A Prince of Our Disorder, John E. Mack, ( ISBN 0-316-54232-6 ).

American minimalism and post minimalism are represented by Steve Reich's Desert Music, choral excerpts from Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach and John Adams ' The Death of Klinghoffer, and David Lang's Pulitzer Prize-winning Little Match Girl Passion.

One of the more high profile donations made was by former U. S. President John F. Kennedy who donated the money from the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage to the Fund.

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

Author John Steinbeck later wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Of Mice and Men, about such people.

Salopek won his second Pulitzer for the Tribune in 2001 for international reporting, and that same year an explanatory reporting team — lead writers of which were Louise Kiernan, Jon Hilkevitch, Laurie Cohen, Robert Manor, Andrew Martin, John Schmeltzer, Alex Rodriguez and Andrew Zajac — won the honor for a profile of the chaotic U. S. air traffic system.

John Corigliano, the winner in 2001, said that although the Pulitzer Prize for Music was intended to be for music that meant something to the world, it had become a very different kind of award: " by composers for composers " and " mired in a pool of rotating jurors.

" Indeed, in 1998, after researching the Pulitzer Prize for Music, music critic Kyle Gann wrote that the awards panel often included " the same seven names over and over as judges ": Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Jacob Druckman ( now deceased ), George Perle, John Harbison, Mario Davidovsky, and Bernard Rands.

* ' The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936 – 1945, Pulitzer Prize winning account by John Toland

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Norman F. Cardoza is a Fort Jones native, son of John C. and Emily S. Cardoza, and is a product of Moffett Creek School and Fort Jones High School.

Classical and operatic composers John Corigliano, Norman Dello Joio, David Del Tredici, Dominick Argento, and Gian Carlo Menotti were honored with Pulitzer Prizes and Grammy Awards.

* The Joad family from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck were sharecroppers from Sallisaw.

Included among De Leon's most distinguished citizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protégé of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story focuses upon Republican presidential contender Robert A. Taft.

* John Toland, author, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

He is one of only three novelists ( the others being William Faulkner and John Updike ) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

The book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by Congressman John Conyers, and garnered Johnson more recognition.

Other notables such as John Kennedy Toole, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces, Rudolph Matas, " father of vascular surgery ," and George E. Burch, inventor of the phlebomanometer in medicine, also were on faculty at Tulane.

Image: John Kennedy Toole. jpg | John Kennedy Toole, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét: John Brown's Body

* 1867 – John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1933 )

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

He has received various other awards including the Turing Award, the National Medal of Science, the John von Neumann Medal, and the Kyoto Prize.

In 1980, Hayek, a non-practicing Roman Catholic, was one of twelve Nobel laureates to meet with Pope John Paul II, " to dialogue, discuss views in their fields, communicate regarding the relationship between Catholicism and science, and ' bring to the Pontiff's attention the problems which the Nobel Prize Winners, in their respective fields of study, consider to be the most urgent for contemporary man.

Eight game-theorists have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology.

This work resulted in his sharing with John Kendrew the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

In 1956, John Bardeen shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Shockley of Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments and Walter Brattain of Bell Telephone Laboratories " for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect ".

In 1972, John Bardeen shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon N Cooper of Brown University and John Robert Schrieffer of the University of Pennsylvania for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.

His citation reads: " Theoretical physicist John Bardeen ( 1908 – 1991 ) shared the Nobel Prize in Physics twice -- in 1956, as co-inventor of the transistor and in 1972, for the explanation of superconductivity.

* 1955 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1865 )

* 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.

In his honour, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology has an award for extraordinary young evolutionary biology researchers named The John Maynard Smith Prize.

Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.

The John von Neumann Theory Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

The Prize named after mathematician John von Neumann is awarded for a body of work, rather than a single piece.

no: John von Neumann Theory Prize

* John Walker ( painter ) ( born 1939 ), nominee for the Turner Prize in 1985

* John E. Walker ( born 1941 ), British chemist, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize