The Laura Flanders Show · CC BY 3.0

Tony Kushner's two-part epic Angels in America won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, then a Primetime Emmy for his own 2003 television adaptation — a rare writer nominated for an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. He went on to write the screenplays for several of Steven Spielberg's films, including Munich, Lincoln and West Side Story. President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Arts in 2013.