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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pulitzer Prize for the Novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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   (262 words)

  
  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, became the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (1198 words)

  
 Booksontape.com : Award Winners : Pulitzer Prize (Biography)
The Pulitzer prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, drama and music.
The prizes, originally endowed with a gift from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded since 1917.
The awards are made by Columbia University on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board.
www.booksontape.com /awards.cfm/biopulitze   (179 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize winners
Age of Innocence, The - 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)

  
 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)

  
 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.
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 CNN.com - Entertainment - Chabon wins Pulitzer for 'Kavalier & Clay' - April 16, 2001
It is the first Pulitzer for Chabon, whose book brings to life World War II America and the golden age of comic books.
His prize marked the first time that the second volume of a previous Pulitzer winner also won the award.
The Pulitzer for drama went to David Auburn for his play "Proof," a family drama about a young woman haunted by the mental collapse of her father.
edition.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/04/16/pulitzer.prize   (590 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Pulitzer Prize Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary award given out each April.
These are the Pulitzer Prize category definitions in the 2004 competition:
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
www.ipedia.com /pulitzer_prize.html   (614 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)

  
 The Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917.
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.
www.literacyrules.com /prize.html   (309 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Moneta J. Sleet Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, eulogized in New York.(includes a reprint of a letter of condolence from......
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/A0154415.html   (267 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.
A special Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Dr.
Before 1948 The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was referred to as Novel
www.bookawards.bizland.com /pulitzer_prize.htm   (608 words)

  
 Prize-Winning Books
The prize recognizes works of exceptional merit in all areas of journalism, fiction, non-fiction, history, autobiography, and poetry.
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986).
The prize recognizes books of exceptional merit in American history, biography, or diplomacy.
www.neh.gov /projects/prizewinners.html   (728 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)

  
 Pulitzer Prize
In writing his 1904 will, which made provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes as an incentive to excellence, Joseph 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 board, later renamed 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 its intent.
www.oberlin.edu /staff/jsluk/pulitzer.htm   (748 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize For Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sandburg shared the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with Margaret Widdemer in 1919
Benet previously won The Pulitzer Prize in 1929
Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times: 1943, 1937, 1931, 1924 The Robert Frost Encyclopedia
www.literature-awards.com /pulitzer_poetry.html   (394 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)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Rootabaga Stories / More Rootabaga Stories
It sits looking, over harbor and city, on silent haunches, and then moves on," liked to refer to himself as a "hobo." Before becoming known as a poet, he worked as a milkman, an ice harvester, a dishwasher, a salesperson, a firefighter, and a journalist.
He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1940 for his four-volume Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, and again in 1951 for Complete Poems.
He is also cited as having won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection of poems entitled Cornhusker.
www.sfsite.com /08a/rs157.htm   (943 words)

  
 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
The 85th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced by President George Rupp of Columbia University.
More than 2,000 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made.
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded at a luncheon in late May, about a month after the names of the winners have been announced.
www.writenews.com /2001/041801_pulitzer_2001.htm   (317 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)

  
 Booth Tarkington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize ; filmed 1941 by Orson Welles)
This Pulitzer Prize winning novel tells the story of the decline of the once magnificent Amberson family, the leading family of a Midwestern city at the turn of the century.
George Amberson Minafer is the spoiled young heir to the Amberson fortune, but Am...
www.freeglossary.com /Booth_Tarkington   (488 words)

  
 Media Advisory: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Deliver Clark Lecture at NC State
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Deliver Clark Lecture at NC State
Lewis won Pulitzer Prizes for biography for his two-volume series on W.E.B. Du Bois.
The first volume, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919,” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994.
www.ncsu.edu /news/press_releases/05_02/031.htm   (205 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(March 31, 1988 day when author received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel 'Beloved' based on the true story......
Getting mother's body: an exclusive excerpt from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's sexy debut novel.
Alice's true adventures: Alice Walker: a Life is a candid and sweeping biography of the revolutionary author and activist whose landmark......
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0154408.html   (218 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)

  
 Pulitzer Prize Winners for Novel/Fiction on Lists of Bests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year.
It you don’t see one of your favorite Pulitzer winners on the list, it may be because I haven’t read it.
When i’m old and retire, i’m going to have a good time reading some of the adventures, obscurities and misadventures of others but also to compare their dreams, fantacies and illusions a bit too!
www.listsofbests.com /list/28   (686 words)

  
 booth tarkington - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1941 by Orson Welles)
The Midlander (1924) (1927; the last two combined as Growth)
Alice Adams (1921; won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1935)
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/booth-tarkington   (123 words)

  
 Biography of Booth Tarkington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1941 by Orson Welles)
The Midlander (1924) (1927; the last two combined as Growth)
Alice Adams (1921; won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1935)
biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /t/Tarkington_Booth.html   (125 words)

  
 Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Letters, Drama, and Music — FactMonster.com
Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Letters, Drama, and Music — FactMonster.com
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove named Poet Laureate of the U.S. Jorie Graham
More on Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Letters Drama and Music from Fact Monster:
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 Alibris: Pulitzer Prize Winning Books
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, March: A Novel cleverly imagines the early life and Civil War days of a favorite fictional father: Mr.
Long absent from his family in the Louisa May Alcott classic, March is a complex, compelling character whose previously unknown story is skillfully and convincingly fleshed out in this remarkable novel.
The Pulitzer Prize is presented annually to recognize outstanding achievement by American authors in a variety of fields, which since 1917 have included fiction, drama, poetry, biography or autobiography, history, and general nonfiction.
www.alibris.com /books/awards/pulitzer_prize_winners.cfm   (1489 words)

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