Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature?

Rene Francois Armand Sully Prudhomme of France in 1901.

Who was the first English writer to receive the the Nobel Prize for literature?

Rudyard Kipling in 1907.

The first American? Sinclair Lewis in 1930.

How many times has Norman Mailer been married? Norman Mailer has been married six times.
Who received the first Caldecott Medal? The illustrator's counterpart to the Newbery Medal, named for English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, was first awarded in 1938 to Dorothy P. Lathrop for Animals of the Bible.
Who received the first National Book Award for Fiction? Nelson Algren received the first National Book Award for Fiction in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm.
Who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1973? Pulitzer Prize judges and trustees were divided so sharply over Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow that for only the seventh time in Pulitzer history no award was given.
Who was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature? Selma LagerlOf of Sweden was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909. She is known for such works as Jerusalem (1901-02), a collection of stories about Swedish peasant life.
How did Chicago get its name? In 1696 a Jesuit, Father Pinet, established a mission for Indians called the Mission of the Guardian Angel. It was set along a stream the Indians had named Checagon, a word meaning anything…