Sarah Blacher Cohen (June 11, 1936 in Appleton, Wisconsin, – November 10, 2008 in Albany, New York) was a writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years.
 Her area of specialty was Jewish American fiction.
 Her published books include "Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature", "Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter" (1974), and "Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy".
 She edited "From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen" (Jewish Literature and Culture Series), "Making a Scene: The Contemporary Drama of Jewish-American Women", and "Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor".
 Her plays include "The Ladies Locker Room", and "Molly Picon's Return Engagement", a biographical play with music on the star of Yiddish theater.
 She collaborated with Joanne Koch, starting in 1989 on "Sophie, Totie, and Belle", a musical on performers Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, and Belle Barth.
 'She and Joanne Koch also co-authored the plays "Danny Kaye: Supreme Court Jester", "Soul Sisters", "Henrietta Szold: Woman of Valor", an adaptation of Saul Bellow stories entitled "Saul Bellow's Stories Onstage: The Old System and a Silver Dish", and the multicultural musical "Soul Sisters".
 Cohen and Koch co-edited an anthology of ten plays "Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews", including "Driving Miss Daisy", "Fires in the Mirror", and "Soul Sisters".
 She collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer on the off-Broadway play "Schlemiel the First".
 Cohen also gave talks and delivered papers, including "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers."
 She was married to Gary Cohen.
 She died of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease on November 10, 2008 age 72.
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.
 She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel "A Thousand Acres" (1991).
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971) is the second book and first collection of stories published by American author Cynthia Ozick.
 "The Pagan Rabbi" and "Envy; or, Yiddish in America", along with an interview with the author, were later collected as an audio book in 1989 read by Ron Rifkin and Mitchell Greenberg.
Dictation: A Quartet (2008) is the seventh collection of stories by American Author Cynthia Ozick.
Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism.
 From 2000 it has used the "breaking news" name but it is considered a continuation of the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, which was awarded from 1968 to 1999.
 Prior to 1968, a single Prize was awarded for photojournalism, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was replaced in that year by Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
The Shawl is a short story first published by Cynthia Ozick in 1980 in "The New Yorker".
 It tells the story of three characters: Rosa, Magda, and Stella on their march to and internment in a Nazi concentration camp.
 The Shawl is noted for its ability to instill in the reader the horror of the Holocaust in less than 2,000 words.
Confrontation is an American literary magazine founded in 1968 and based at Long Island University in Brookville, New York.
 It publishes fiction, essays and poetry twice each year.
 The journal, edited from its inception to 2010 by LIU Post English professor and poet Martin Tucker, helped launch the careers of Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux and Walter Abish.
Tavis Smiley ( ; born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author.
 Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana.
 After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
 Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991 and, starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show "BET Talk" (later renamed "BET Tonight") on Black Entertainment Television (BET).
 After Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew his contract that year.
 Smiley then began hosting "The Tavis Smiley Show" on National Public Radio (NPR) (2002–04) and currently hosts "Tavis Smiley" on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" on Public Radio International (PRI).
 From 2010 to 2013, Smiley and Cornel West joined forces to host their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West".
 They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film "Still Bill".
 He is the new host of "Tavis Talks" on BlogTalkRadio's Tavis Smiley Network.
A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley.
 It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name.

Question: Which american novelist won the pulitzer prize for fiction, Cynthia Ozick or Jane Smiley?
Answer: Jane Smiley