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	Pulitzer Prizes
		Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1918 His Family, Ernest Poole 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington 1921 The Age of...
		The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music.
		Pulitzer Prize for History of United States - 1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days, J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to United...
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	Pulitzer Prizes
		Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1918 His Family, Ernest Poole 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington 1921 The Age of......
		Pulitzer Prize for History of United States - 1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days, J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to United......
		Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography - 1917 Julia Ward Howe, Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall 1918......
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	Bruce International - Bruce Biographies
		Received a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for his book Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed.
		After service in World War I, he entered the commonwealth legislature in 1918, was treasurer (1921-23) in the cabinet of W. Hughes, and served (1923-29) as prime minister.
		He was notable for promoting the closest relations of Australia with the empire compatible with Australian self-government, and he also advocated international cooperation.
	www.brucefamily.com /biopage.htm (157 words)

	The Spensarium
		Best known forthe books The Gentleman from India, (1899), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918 Pulitzer Prize), Alice Adams, (1921 Pulitzer Prize).
		Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) : Newton Booth Tarkington was the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and came to be known for his comical (and almost cynical) style of the Lost Generation that characterized the 1920's.
		Mark Twain (1835-1910): Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens Â American humorist, writer, and lecturer who won a worldwide audience for his stories of youthful adventures, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
	www.linkingpage.com /spenser/thinair.html (157 words)

	Book Cove -- Awards - Pulitzer Prize Winners
		The author declined to accept a Pulitzer Prize for the work because he had not been awarded the prize for his Main Street in 1921.
		Book Cove -- Awards - Pulitzer Prize Winners
		Book three of the Escape Series, intended to be read as a single chronicle illustrating differing perspectives on family life during the early 20th-century.
	www.npl.lib.va.us /cove/3e.shtml (157 words)

	Poet Bios
		Volumes of his collected poems were published in 1921 (Pulitzer Prize), 1937, and years after his work fell out of popular and critical fashion, in 1999.
		He has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Bess Hokin Award for Poetry, a Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Robert Frost Fellowship from the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.
		Chicago Poems (1916), in which Sandburg used unrhymed free verse and the techniques of imagism, established his reputation as a realist who was concerned with the energy and brutality of urban industrial life.
	www.ncguru.org /poems/poetbio_q-z.htm (157 words)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1918 His Family, Ernest Poole 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington 1921 The Age of...
		Pulitzer Prize for History of United States - 1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days, J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to United...
		The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0777580.html (157 words)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1918 His Family, Ernest Poole 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington 1921 The Age of...
		The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music.
		Pulitzer Prize for History of United States - 1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days, J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to United...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0777580.html (157 words)

	Adams, James Truslow on Encyclopedia.com
		Brooklyn, N.Y. The Founding of New England (1921), which brought him the Pulitzer Prize in history for 1922, was followed by Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776 (1923) and New England in the Republic, 1776-1850 (1926).
		III in the “History of American Life” series, 1927) and The Epic of America (1931), which was widely translated.
		He was editor in chief of Dictionary of American History (6 vol., 1940; rev. ed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/adams-j1a.asp (369 words)

	ClassZone.com
		In 1921 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence.
		In many of her novels she captured the flavor of New York society at the turn of the century.
		Edith Wharton was born in New York City to a socially prominent family and began writing stories and poems in her childhood.
	www.classzone.com /novelguides/authors/wharton.cfm (369 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Alice Adams (Special Edition) on DVD
		George Stevens' adaptation of BoothTarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel, and his breakthrough film, stars Katherine Hepburn in the title role.
		Katherine Hepburn plays the ever upward-groping main character in this movie based on Booth Tarkington's novel, and she is excellent.
		From the wrong side of the tracks, Alice is in a constant pursuit to make it over to the right side.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=11919 (369 words)

	The Age of Innocence
		The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotation.
		Contexts constructs the historical foundations of the novel, with documents on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, and archery (the sport for daughters of the upper-crust), among others.
		Criticism features thirteen major essays on the novel, by Julia Ehrhardt, R. Lewis, Janet Goodwyn, Nancy Bentley, Brian Edwards, Anne Macmasters, Dale Bauer, Elizabeth Ammons, Judith Fryer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Linda Wagner Martin, Candace Waid, and Brigette Peucker (on film adaptations of the novel).
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/nce/innocence/overview.htm (369 words)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1918 His Family, Ernest Poole 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington 1921 The Age of......
		Pulitzer Prize for History of United States - 1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days, J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to United......
		Pulitzer Prizes - Pulitzer Prizes, annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, and music.
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	Historic Bok Sanctuary - History - Edward Bok
		Edward William Bok (1863-1930), American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born in Den Helder, Netherlands, on October 9, 1863.
		In 1921, he created The Philadelphia Award of $10,000 a year to the citizen of Philadelphia or vicinity who, during the preceding year, performed or brought to its culmination an act or contributed a service calculated to advance the best interests of the community of Philadelphia.
		Bok was a champion of social causes, a pioneer in the field of public sex education, prenatal education and childcare, and an environmental activist in public health and the saving of Niagara Falls.
	www.boksanctuary.org /history/edward.html (525 words)

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		Hendrick, Burton Jesse US biographer, historian, and journalist; co-wrote "The Victory at Sea" 1920 (Pulitzer Prize for history 1921), wrote "The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page" 1922 (Pulitzer Prize for biography 1923), "The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page" 1928 (Pulitzer Prize for biography 1929) _1870-1949
		Lazear, Jesse William US physician and medical martyr; as part of Walter Reed's research, voluntarily infected with and died of yellow fever _1866-1900
		Jones, Jesse Holman US administrator, businessman, and newspaper publisher; Secretary of Commerce 1940-1945 _1874-1956
	www.s9.com /cgi-s9/engine99.cgi?name=Jesse (556 words)

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		Hendrick, Burton Jesse US biographer, historian, and journalist; co-wrote "The Victory at Sea" 1920 (Pulitzer Prize for history 1921), wrote "The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page" 1922 (Pulitzer Prize for biography 1923), "The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page" 1928 (Pulitzer Prize for biography 1929) _1870-1949
		Helms, Jesse Alexander US Republican politician; Senator from North Carolina 1973-2003; chairman of Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee 1981-1987; chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1995-2001, 2001 _1921--
		Lazear, Jesse William US physician and medical martyr; as part of Walter Reed's research, voluntarily infected with and died of yellow fever _1866-1900
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	Zona Gale -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		She adapted it as a play, which was awarded the (Click link for more info and facts about Pulitzer Prize for Drama) Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.
		In 1921, Zona Gale took an active role in the creation of the Wisconsin Equal Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination of women.
		She was born at (Click link for more info and facts about Portage, Wisconsin) Portage, Wisconsin (which she often used as a setting in her writing), and attended Wayland Academy at (Click link for more info and facts about Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/z/zo/zona_gale.htm (368 words)

	biog_dict.p
		painter _1494-1557 Poole, Ernest US nov.; 1st recipient of Pulitzer Prize for novel 1918 (Pulitzer Prize for fiction after 1948) _1880-1950 Pope, Alexander (the Wasp of Twickenham) Eng.
		occupation 1915-1918; ruled Serbia as part of Yugoslavia 1918-1921; son of Alexander I _1844-1921 Peter II (also Petar II) king of Yugoslavia 1934-1945; ruled in exile in London 1941-1945; son of Alexander I _1923-1970 Peter Lombard (also Petrus Lombardus) It.
		Paul Yugoslavian prince; regent of Yugoslavia 1934-1941; cousin of Alexander I _1893-1976 Paul I It.
	www.sunsite.org.uk /sites/ftp.std.com/obi/Biographical/biog_dict.p (7548 words)

	The LOC.GOV Wise Guide : Is Winning the Nobel A Crime?
		Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, best known for his extraordinary World War II cartoons, won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1958 cartoon "I Won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
		But when Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958, the communist regime of the Soviet Union refused to allow him to accept the prize and travel to Stockholm.
		A tribute to Mauldin (1921-2003), "Bill Mauldin: Beyond Willie and Joe" features a selection of original cartoons spanning the artist's remarkable career and draws exclusively from the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
	www.loc.gov /wiseguide/nov03/nobel.html (367 words)

	The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
		Tarkington won his second Pulitzer Prize for Alice Adams (1921), a novel often seen as an extension of the Growth trilogy.
		The Magnificent Ambersons (1918), the second work in the series, earned Tarkington the Pulitzer Prize.
		Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class.
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	Booth Tarkington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alice Adams (1921; won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1935)
		Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.
		Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, and graduated from Princeton University in 1893.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Booth_Tarkington (1050 words)

	Anatoly Odulo
		Ukrainian officials and Ukrainian-Americans have begun a campaign to revoke the Pulitzer Prize awarded to a New York Times writer who reported that a man-made famine that killed millions in the 1930s never happened.
		Duranty, who was the Times' Moscow correspondent from 1921 to 1934, won the Pulitzer for a 1931 series of reports about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's five-year plans to reform the economy.
		"It has become a world action," said Tama Gallo, executive director of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a New York-based group that began the effort to have the prestigious prize awarded to Walter Duranty in 1932 withdrawn.
	www.odulo.com /anatoly/blog (1050 words)

	Bill Mauldin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (October 29, 1921–January 22, 2003) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the United States.
		In 1945, at the age of 23, Mauldin won the Pulitzer Prize.
		Mauldin began working for Stars and Stripes, the American soldiers' newspaper, and his cartoons were viewed by soldiers all over Europe during World War II, and also published in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Mauldin (995 words)

	Robert Peter Tristram Coffin Collection
		Coffin is best known as a writer of more than three dozen works of prose, poetry and history, and as the winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book, Strange Holiness.
		Robert P.T. Coffin (1892-1955), writer, professor and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, was born and educated in Brunswick, Maine.
		Coffin began his teaching career as instructor and, later, professor of English at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. (1921-1934), where he ran the English honors course.
	library.bowdoin.edu /arch/mss/rptcg.shtml (995 words)

	Robert Peter Tristram Coffin Collection
		Coffin is best known as a writer of more than three dozen works of prose, poetry and history, and as the winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book, Strange Holiness.
		Robert P.T. Coffin (1892-1955), writer, professor and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, was born and educated in Brunswick, Maine.
		Coffin began his teaching career as instructor and, later, professor of English at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. (1921-1934), where he ran the English honors course.
	library.bowdoin.edu /arch/mss/rptcg.shtml (429 words)

	karel Pictures on Girls In Bikinis
		Karel Husa returns to the Cornell stage to celebrate his 75th birthday Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Karel Husa, the Kappa Alpha Professor of Music Emeritus,
		Karel Husa Karel Husa updated 5 April 2002 Karel Husa Karel Husa, winner of the 1993 Grawemeyer Award and the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music,
		Husa, Karel Husa, Karel Period: Early 20th Century Born: Sunday, August 7, 1921 in Prague, Czechoslovakia As of November 2003 this composer is still living.
	www.girlsinbikinis.org /.search/karel (429 words)

	The Age of Innocence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.
		The plot is a love story, but is also well regarded for its accurate portrayal of how the upper class of America at one time lived, for which it won the Pulitzer (The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) by Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer for almost the same reason just a few years earlier).
		Wharton, born in 1862 and aged 58 at the time of publication, herself lived in this rarefied social world, only to see it change dramatically by the end of WWI, when she looked backed and reminisced about a bygone "age of innocence".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence (734 words)

	Cartoonist Bill Mauldin is dead
		Bill Mauldin, 81, one of the great editorial cartoonists of the 20th century, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, whose characters Willie and Joe defined the average American foot soldier in World War II, died Wednesday of complications from Alzheimer's at a California nursing home.
		That year, he won his second Pulitzer--a cartoon on the refusal of the Soviets to allow author Boris Pasternak to leave the country to accept his Nobel Prize.
		William Henry Mauldin was born in Mountain Park, N.M., on Oct. 29, 1921, the son of Edith and Sidney Mauldin.
	www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xmaul23.html (1099 words)

	Zona Gale
		This won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1921.
		In 1921, Miss Lulu Bett was adapted by Clara Beranger and produced by Paramount studio's Famous Players - Lasky as a silent feature film directed by William C. deMille.
		She became recognized during the 1920's as a member of the "revolt from the village" movement, especially after the publication of Miss Lulu Bett, a novel dealing with a spinster's response to the drudgery of small-town life.
	www.library.arizona.edu /users/btravers/sabbatical/gale.htm (366 words)

	American Writers: Walter Lippmann
		Lippmann's analyses over many years earned him a special Pulitzer Prize citation in 1958.
		Moving to the New York Herald-Tribune, he began his long-running column, "Today and Tomorrow." Eventually syndicated worldwide, the column won two Pulitzer Prizes and made Lippmann one of the most respected political columnists in the world.
		Lippmann began writing columns in 1921 for the reformist New York World, which he served two years (1929-31) as editor.
	www.americanwriters.org /writers/lippmann.asp (247 words)

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