Pulitzer Prize Recipient Photographer. She received notoriety for being the 1954 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, along with being the first woman and the second amateur photographer to achieve this honor. The subject of her award-winning photograph was a horrific vehicle accident on a bridge involving a semi-truck that burst through the railing with the cab of the truck hanging in mid-air forty feet over the river and rocks below. On May 3, 1953, she, her husband and father were on a fishing trip in Redding, California when the incident occurred. Their car was initially behind the semi-truck when it plunged off the bridge as it had lost control from a failed steering system. There were two men in the cab of the truck screaming for help that needed to be rescued. A rope was ascertained from another witness. Her husband dropped the rope to the men in the truck and pulled the first one to safety. As the second man, who was most injured, was pulled to safety, the cab burst into flames crashing onto rocks below. During the rescue, her father reminded her of the weekly photograph contest that was held by their local newspaper, the "Sacramento Bee." Running to the opposite bank to a full view of the situation, she took her photograph with only two shots left on a roll of film that was a year old. Schau took the photograph using the 1953 model of a Brownie Box Camera. She submitted the photograph to the "Sacramento Bee" and received $10, her photograph was picked-up by the Associated Press and finally submitted to the Pulitzer Prize committee. Born one of two daughters of a grocery store owner, Henry Brown, she graduated from college with a Bachelor's degree in Music and Art. In 1942 she became the bride of First Lieutenant Gilbert Burton Doolittle, United States Army, who was killed in action during World War II in the Philippines. In 1949, she married a veteran of World War II and an accountant, Walter Schau. She received $1,000 as her Pulitzer Prize in addition to payments from other news outlets.