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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
In 1948 the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel was replaced with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer travelling fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pulitzer-Prize-for-the-Novel   (263 words)

  
  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Music—for a distinguished musical contribution by an American that had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.
Pulitzer Prize for Photography, was divided in 1968 into Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and a spot news category, which became the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, became the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Pulitzer_Prize   (1205 words)

  
 Prize-Winning Books Online
The Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to an author from any country who has produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency", was established in 1901.
The prize is given to an author, and does not usually cite individual books.
Pulitzer Prizes for American biography, drama, fiction, history, and poetry were established in 1917 and 1918.
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu /prize.html   (920 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pulitzer Prize for Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Pulitzer Prizes PULITZER PRIZES [Pulitzer Prizes] annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, and music.
The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. They have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of an advisory board
Year's dramas fail to make the cut for a Pulitzer Prize: Lack of a winner may be a quirk of the calendar - or a sign of the lean times in theater.(Calendar)
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pulitzer+Prize+for+Drama   (737 words)

  
 LiteraryCritic.com -- Pulitzer Prize
In letters, prizes were to go to an American novel, an original American play performed in New York, a book on the history of the United States, an American biography, and a history of public service by the press.
However, the Pulitzer Prize advisory board was given discretion to change the set of awards over time, and since the inception of the prizes in 1917, the board has increased the number of awards to 21 and introducted poetry, music, and photography as subjects.
The prizes are awarded each April, by the president of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize board.
www.literarycritic.com /pulitzer.htm   (196 words)

  
 Pulitzer Poetry Prize Winners of the United States of America.
Pulitzer Poetry Prize Winners of the United States of America.
Joseph Pulitzer endowed the journalism school at Columbia University, and directed that money be set aside for the prizes.
The Pulitzer prize for poetry honors a volume of original verse by an American author.
www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/poets/poets.pulitzer.prize.htm   (446 words)

  
 Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, literature, music and drama were established by the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, a 19th century journalist.
Administered by the Columbia School of Journalism, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded "for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." Each winner receives a gold medal as well as a cash award of $10,000 (raised in 2003 from $7500).
Many Pulitzer Prize Winners go on to receive other literary awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature.
almaz.com /pulitzer   (141 words)

  
 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION, 1918-2003
Pulitzer specified solely four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one for education, and four traveling scholarships.
In letters, prizes were to go to an American novel, an original American play performed in New York, a book on the history of the United States, an American biography, and a history of public service by the press.
Since the inception of the prizes in 1917, the Pulitzer Prize Board has increased the number of awards to 21 and introduced poetry, music, and photography as subjects, while adhering to the spirit of the founder's will and intent.
home.comcast.net /~dwtaylor1/pulitzerfiction.html   (181 words)

  
 Online Texts and Resources for High School English
The Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography: These highly esteemed, annual prizes are awarded by Columbia University, New York City, on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university, for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or History: These highly esteemed, annual prizes are awarded by Columbia University, New York City, on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university, for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
The Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction: These highly esteemed, annual prizes are awarded by Columbia University, New York City, on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university, for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
www.schoolhousebooksweb.com /lib1_sug_read_hs.htm   (3059 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize winners
The Age of Innocence - Among New York City's upper class of the 1870s, before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there was a small cluster of aristocratic families that ruled New York's social life.
At the center of the highest circles is Newland Archer, a lawyer set to enter into a socially safe marriage with the sheltered and beautiful May Welland -- a decision Archer is forced to re-consider after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic and beautiful cousin, recently returned from a lengthy stay in Europe.
Miss Lulu Bett - Adapted for the stage, Miss Lulu Bett won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.
manybooks.net /collections/Pulitzer_Prize.php   (189 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Received a Pulitzer Prize
novelist, won Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams.
essayist; won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department.
politicalgraveyard.com /special/pulitzer-prize.html   (1022 words)

  
 The Pulitzer Prizes -- Search the Pulitzer Archives
A Pulitzer Prize Winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or a newspaper's staff.
The Pulitzer Prize Board generally selects the Pulitzer Prize Winners from the three nominated finalists in each category.
The Public Service prize is always awarded to a newspaper, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation.
www.pulitzer.org /Archive/archive.html   (433 words)

  
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He refused the prize for this book, saying it was inappropriate for authors to be in a competition with one another.
But four years later he accepted the Nobel Prize because, he reasoned, it was for a body of work and not for a single novel.
The "Scarlet" part begins when she marries July, the love of her life who's also "the wildest buck of the Quarters." This is the first Pulitzer novel about the lives of fl people, and while it certainly means to be authentic and respectful (the author is white), it's rather patronizing by modern standards.
www.pitt.edu /~kloman/thumb1f.html   (1663 words)

  
 Playbill News: David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The five-person jury for the drama prize had nominated three plays — Orpheus X by Rinde Eckert; Bulrusher by Eisa Davis; and Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue by Quiara Alegria Hudes — however, the overall Pulitzer Prize Board chose to award the prize to a play that hadn't been nominated.
Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, explained at an April 16 press conference that none of the finalists nominated by the jury received a majority vote from the 19-person Board (a finalist must get a majority vote from the Board in order to be named a winner).
The Pulitzer Prize winner was announced April 16 at Columbia University, which bestows the award, considered the most prestigious prize for American playwriting.
www.playbill.com /news/article/107364.html   (1184 words)

  
 SOS, Missouri - Wolfner Library ( Pulitzer Prize Winners )
Since 1918, one American author per year has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
The award is named for Joseph Pulitzer, renowned editor and owner of the St.
He established the Pulitzer Prizes in his will, which provides $7,500 for each award winner.
www.sos.mo.gov /wolfner/bibliographies/pulitzerprize.asp   (3538 words)

  
 TIME.com: Pulitzer Prize Boners -- Apr. 5, 1948 -- Page 1
A Pulitzer Prize once went to a pint-sized reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins.
Nor is the lack of a Pulitzer Prize evidence that a veteran newspaperman is not among the most capable or fearless." Binder put the blame for bad choices on the 13-man Pulitzer advisory board, mostly publishing executives of big newspapers.
The Pulitzer board appoints "expert jurymen" to advise it on these prizes, but frequently ignores their recommendations.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,798333,00.html   (696 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize
Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, this award honors books which address the largest themes in life, the raw passion and tragedy of the human condition.
Audio Cassette This is excellent and very deserving of the Pulitzer.
Before 1948 The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was referred to as Novel
www.bookawards.bizland.com /pulitzer_prize.htm   (608 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Infoplease.com
Alice's true adventures: Alice Walker: a Life is a candid and sweeping biography of the revolutionary author and activist whose landmark......
A prize writer: Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King's straight-talking ways earns him a Pulitzer and national fame.
Eye on the prizes.(Pulitzer Prize winners for 1996 include George Walker for Music, Jonathan Larson for Drama, Richard Ford and Jorie......
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0154408.html   (231 words)

  
 Award Winners: Pulitzer Prize, Drama - Fletcher Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Adapted from the The Pulitzer Prizes web-site - specifically the Drama 1917- category.
NOTE: O'Neill was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1957, 1928, and 1922.
NOTE: O'Neill was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1957, 1928, and 1920.
library.west.asu.edu /collections/awardlists/drama_pulitzer.html   (1782 words)

  
 TARKINGTON, BOOTH. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
His most characteristic and popular works were his genial novels of life in small Middle Western towns, including The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), The Conquest of Canaan (1905), and the trilogy Growth (1927), made up of Turmoil (1915), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; Pulitzer Prize), and The Midlander (1923).
Alice Adams (1921; Pulitzer Prize), considered by some his best novel, tells of the frustrated ambitions of a romantic lower-middle-class girl.
He wrote several amusing novels of boyhood and adolescence, the most notable being Penrod (1914) and Seventeen (1916).
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ta/Tarkingt.html   (117 words)

  
 PULITZER PRIZES WON BY NEWSPAPERS AND THE NEWS SERVICE OWNED BY GANNETT
Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal at Louisville, Ky., won the 2004 Pulitzer prize in the Editorial Cartooning category.
The Pulitzer board cited his “unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages.”
The Des Moines Register, public service gold medal for a series by Jane Schorer about a woman who had been raped and agreed to be identified in Schorer's stories.
www.gannett.com /news/awards/pulitzer.htm   (1565 words)

  
 FICTION: PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1918 for best fiction in book form by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
There are several years where no prize was awarded.
The prize-winners are arranged alphabetically, not chronologically, because whether old or new, none should be overlooked on the assumption they would be outdated or too new to be of value.
www.stillwater.k12.mn.us /~.kellent.staff.sjhs/fiction.htm   (127 words)

  
 The Pulitzer Prize
Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the award honors books which address those themes in life which address the passion and tragedy of the human condition.
The prize for poetry is for an original volume of verse by an American author receives $7,500.
Poetry was not one of the categories originally included in Joseph Pulitzer's bequest of five hundred thousand dollars.
www.literacyrules.com /prize.html   (309 words)

  
 Alibris: The Nobel Prize for literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2005 was awarded to Harold Pinter, the English playwright, poet, and screenwriter.
In their award announcement, The Swedish Academy lauded Pinter as an author who "uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms" with his plays.
The Nobel Prize for Literature is presented annually to recognize outstanding achievement for a body of work.
www.alibris.com /books/awards/nobel_prize_winners.cfm   (142 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize Winners (Reference)
A list of Pulitzer Prize winners for General Nonfiction, from 1962 to 2006.
A list of Pulitzer Prize winners for Biography or Autobiography, from 1917 to 2006.
A list of Pulitzer Prize winners for U.S. History, from 1917 to 2006.
www.teachervision.fen.com /authors/award-winners/2378.html   (84 words)

  
 Poughkeepsie Journal Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
With W.N. Haldeman, he consolidated the Courier and Journal and was its editor for 50 years.
He won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
He left the Courier-Journal the next year because it supported the League of Nations.
www.poughkeepsiejournal.com /services/tour/wattrsn.htm   (56 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917.
In lieu of the driving narrative voice of Straight Man, Empire Falls delves into a large cast of strong characters who will live on in the reader's mind long after the novel proper has ended.
Russo's sprawling Pulitzer Prize winner impresses on many levels — it's a large-scale epic that doesn't gloss over its characters' most intimate longings, and Russo does a terrific job of balancing a large, diverse cast — but what astonishes me the most is how quickly it ends; the narrative plunges ahead at a breakneck pace.
www.powells.com /prizes/pulitzer_fiction.html   (660 words)

  
 Clinton Book Shop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Pulitzer Prize / Fiction / 2006 - 1918
Pulitzer Prize / General Nonfiction / 2006 - 1986
Pulitzer Prize / Biography or Autobiography / 2006 - 1986
clinton.booksense.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=awWxCAXTqNK-?s=awards   (63 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize
Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist, began the Pulitzer Prize in 1918 to award those who shared interest in his profession.
The following is a list of the books that have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
midhudson.org /Awards/pulitzer.htm   (376 words)

  
 Square Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Pulitzer Prize / Fiction / 2006 - 1918
Pulitzer Prize / General Nonfiction / 2006 - 1986
Pulitzer Prize / Poetry / 2006 - 1986
squarebooks.booksense.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=awards   (628 words)

  
 Calendar: Staged reading of Horton Foote's play, "1918"
ADD: Pulitzer Prize--wining playwright Horton Foote is best known for his Academy Award--winning screenplays, To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies.
Foote's most monumental work, however, is little known to most audiences: The Orphans' Home Cycle is an epic, nine play saga which Foote calls "a moral and social history of a particular time and place."
"1918," the seventh play in the cycle deals with the Horace and Elizabeth Robedaux as they suffer through the flu epidemic of 1918 while the small town of Harrison struggles through the First World War.
www.whittier.edu /pr/rls.1918.html   (163 words)

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