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Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (1207 words)

prize - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31) PRIZE [prize] in maritime law, the private property of an enemy that a belligerent captures at sea. A prize court, in the territory of the belligerent or in that of an allied power, must adjudicate that the property belonged to an enemy national. Prize law initially developed from the desire of governments to share in the profits made by ships engaged in privateering. www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/prize.asp   (470 words)

1927 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1927. Canton Daily News, for its brave, patriotic and effective fight for the ending of a vicious state of affairs brought about by collusion between city authorities and the criminal element, a fight which had a tragic result in the assassination of the editor of the paper, Mr. 1927 - 1926 - 1925 - 1924 - 1923 - 1922 - 1921 - 1920 - 1919 - 1918 - 1917 en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1927_Pulitzer_Prize   (160 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)

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)

Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1927 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). April 12 - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. October 2 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. www.hallencyclopedia.com /1927   (2144 words)

Thornton Wilder - MSN Encarta In his compelling novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927; Pulitzer Prize, 1928), Wilder united the lives of a disparate group of travelers in colonial Peru through a single event, the disaster in which they die. It was theatrically experimental for its time, performed on a stage without scenery or props, using stepladders to represent the upstairs of a house and folding chairs to indicate a graveyard. One of Wilder's most successful works, The Matchmaker (1954), derived ultimately from a 19th-century Austrian comedy, was made into a motion picture in 1958 and adapted in 1964 as the musical comedy Hello, Dolly!, which was filmed in turn in 1969. encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761568015   (315 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)

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)

UNC Press NewsBytes -- August/September 1998 Winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for In Abraham's Bosom, Green's concern for human rights characterized both his life and his writing, and his steady advocacy for educational and social reform and racial justice contributed in fundamental ways to the emerging New South in the first half of this century. A native of Harnett County, North Carolina, Paul Green was a devoted teacher of philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Pulitzer Prize for In Abraham's Bosom, which he received at age 33, brought him to the attention of a much larger public. www.ibiblio.org /uncpress/newsbytes/august98/pgreen.html   (659 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   (454 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. A special Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Dr. www.bookawards.bizland.com /pulitzer_prize.htm   (608 words)

Encyclopedia Beyond the Horizon (1920; Pulitzer Prize, 1920), a domestic tragedy in three acts, was produced successfully on the Broadway stage, as was The Emperor Jones (1920), a study of the disintegration of the mind of a fl dictator under the influence of fear. In the nine-act play Strange Interlude (1927; Pulitzer Prize, 1928) O'Neill sought to portray the way in which hidden psychological processes impinge upon outward actions. O'Neill was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in literature. www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..on019500.a   (1029 words)

Online NewsHour: The Pulitzer Prize for Biography -- April 23, 1999 A. Scott Berg, the 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner for a biography, discusses Lindbergh, his book about the life and times of American aviator Charles Lindbergh. Pulitzer Prize winners for history, Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace. Charles Lindbergh, himself, made about a million dollars after his flight -- this is in 1927 when you really could keep all of it and it really bought you a lot. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/pulitzer_4-23.html   (1747 words)

1927 - Uncyclopedia The days in 1927 were numbered non-sequentially, and everybody in that wonderful year was smart enough to figure it out. The immense applause at the end of 1927 resulted in not one but eight encores, commonly denoted with letters. However, things are so great in 1927 that no one wants to go to Heaven. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/1927   (1284 words)

Poet Laureate Timeline (Library of Congress) Shapiro won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for "V-Letter and Other Poems." He taught at the University of Nebraska, where he edited the Prairie Schooner from 1956-1966. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for "Lord Weary's Castle." Lowell's style was rigorously formal, until he loosened his adherence to meter and form with "Life Studies," which received the National Book Award in 1960. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for "Selected Poems 1930-1965," and a 1977 National Book Award for "Collected Poems 1930-1976." In 1962, he won a shared Bollingen Prize. www.loc.gov /poetry/laureate.html   (911 words)

The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners Melinda Wagner's Pulitzer prize-winning piece was comissioned by Paul Lustig Dunkel, the music director and conductor of the Westchester Philharmonic, for the orchestra's 15th anniversary. The Courant was awarded the prize for its "clear and detailed coverage" of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker shot four supervisors before turning the gun on himself. The Post-Intelligencer won its first Pulitzer Prize for the cartoons of David Horsey, 47, whose submissions focused on a tangled sexual abuse case in Wenatchee, Wash., and the turmoil in Washington. partners.nytimes.com /library/arts/041299pulitzer-prizes.html   (2737 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. 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. The prize for the novel, whose winners are shown below, honors books that address the largest themes in life, the raw passion and tragedy of the human condition. home.comcast.net /~dwtaylor1/pulitzerfiction.html   (181 words)

Encyclopedia Robinson also composed a trilogy of narratives, Merlin (1917), Lancelot (1920), and Tristram (1927; Pulitzer Prize, 1928), based on Arthurian legend. Among his other works are Collected Poems (1921; Pulitzer Prize, 1922), Roman Bartholomew (1923), The Man Who Died Twice (1924; Pulitzer Prize, 1925), and Matthias at the Door (1931). Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws are prohibited. www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..ro057300.a#FWNE.fw..ro057300.a   (586 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)

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. digital.library.upenn.edu /books/prize.html   (920 words)

PSA and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: A Brief History In 1917, the first year the Pulitzer prizes were awarded, there were four categories: Novel, Drama, History, and Journalism. Edward J. Wheeler, then president of the PSA, noted the absence of a prize for poetry and wrote to Nicholas Butler, the president of Columbia (through which university the prizes were awarded) to inquire about the cause. The Pulitzer family, rather than relinquish the award, endowed an annual one thousand dollar prize for poetry, thereby establishing the Pulitzer award for poetry as we know it today. www.poetrysociety.org /journal/articles/pulitzer.html   (465 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)

Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Green inspires new book of NC flora and folklore - published in CarolinaNewswire.com. - Stay ... Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Green inspires new book of NC flora and folklore - published in CarolinaNewswire.com. Paul Green (1894-1981) was one of the South’s most revered writers and one of the first playwrights from the South to gain national and international recognition. He received the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his Broadway play In Abraham’s Bosom. carolinanewswire.com /news/News.cgi?database=headlines.db&command=viewone&id=6467&op=t   (627 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...... Alice's true adventures: Alice Walker: a Life is a candid and sweeping biography of the revolutionary author and activist whose landmark...... Anatomy of a high school dropout: Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Murray. www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0154408.html   (190 words)

Award Winners: Pulitzer Prize, Drama - Fletcher Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31) 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. NOTE: O'Neill was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1957, 1922, and 1920. library.west.asu.edu /collections/awardlists/drama_pulitzer.html   (1782 words)

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