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  The Pulitzer Prizes -- Search the Pulitzer Archives
A Pulitzer Prize Winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or a newspaper's staff.
Work that has been submitted for Prize consideration but not chosen as either a nominated finalist or a winner is termed an entry or submission.
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)

  
  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.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer was the founder of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, as the eldest son of Hungarian Jews.
In the journalism the Prizes were awarded in the 1920s for exposing the practices of the Ku Klux Klan, revealing the dehumanizing prison conditions and exploring the problems of labor during a national coal strike.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /pulitzer.htm   (1158 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
The 1999 Pulitzer Prizes in poetry and fiction bring to 26 the total of literary Pulitzers won by UI faculty or students, primarily in the Writers' Workshop.
Other recent UI-connected Pulitzer winners are former faculty member Philip Roth for fiction last year; Jane Smiley for fiction and James Tate for poetry in 1992; and Robert Olen Butler, a graduate of the UI department of theatre arts, for fiction in 1993.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pulitzer-Prize-for-Poetry   (3448 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in 2003: Public Service to the Boston Globe For its courageous, comprehensive coverage of sexual abuse by priests, an effort that pierced secrecy, stirred local, national and international reaction and produced changes in the Roman Catholic Church.
Pulitzer Prize is a United States award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements and musical compositions.
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 Pulitzer prize for fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Start the Pulitzer prize for fiction article or add a request for it.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pulitzer Prize for Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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)
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 Pulitzer Prize Thumbnails Project
The first Pulitzer prizes were awarded in 1917, but the committee chose not to name a winner in the Novel (now Fiction) category.
Although there was no Fiction prize in 1957, the Pulitzer judges that year gave an honorary award to Kenneth Roberts for his historical novels written between 1930 and 1956.
Other multiple Pulitzer Prize winners among the Fiction winners are: Thornton Wilder, once for a novel (1928) and twice for plays; Robert Penn Warren (1947), once for a novel and twice for poetry; and Norman Mailer (1980), once for a novel and once for nonfiction.
www.pitt.edu /~kloman/pulitzerintro.html   (1900 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.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
Strange Interlude (1928; Pulitzer Prize), a nine-act drama, is a Freudian character study of an emotionally sterile woman, whose frequent asides give expression to her deeper thoughts and feelings.
Considered by many critics his greatest work, it looks at a group of drunken outcasts who are stripped of their illusions by a misguided, guilt-ridden savior.
In 1936 O'Neill was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
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 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary awardgiven out each April.
Theprize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-Americanjournalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalismas selected by the faculty.
www.therfcc.org /pulitzer-prizes-143285.html   (530 words)

  
 1928 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1928.
1928 - 1927 - 1926 - 1925 - 1924 - 1923 - 1922 - 1921 - 1920 - 1919 - 1918 - 1917
This page was last modified 16:52, 24 July 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1928_Pulitzer_Prize   (147 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   (454 words)

  
 American Literature: Drama - MSN Encarta
It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1928.
It was awarded the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, similarly focused on pretense and its destructiveness and destruction in an unhappy family.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761596670_3/American_Literature_Drama.html   (2064 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)

  
 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.
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 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
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.
His most ambitious work, the trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), was an attempt to re-create the power and profundity of the ancient Greek tragedies by setting the themes and plot of the Oresteia by Aeschylus in 19th-century New England.
www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..on019500.a   (1029 words)

  
 Journalism Library Pulitzer Collections
The Pulitzer Prizes; a history of the awards in books, drama, music, and journalism, based on the private files over six decades.
The Pulitzer prize story II : award-winning news stories, columns, editorials, cartoons, and news pictures, 1959-1980 John Hohenberg.
Approximately 20,000 items, personal and professional papers of this important American editor and the extant records of one of his newspapers can be found in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/jour/coll/pulitzer.html   (757 words)

  
 TIME.com: A. M. A. Flayed -- May 21, 1928 -- Page 1
Said Charles Edward Russell, famed radical author and winner of the 1928 Pulitzer prize for Biography: "I suggest that we broadcast to the public a pamphlet challenging the American Medical Association directly.
Diagnosis of tuberculosis of the bones and joints cannot be accomplished by microscopic examination of fluid or tissue; it must be accomplished by injecting the fluid into guinea pigs.
Only six per cent of animal experimentation is true vivisection, i.e., dissection of living creatures; practically all of this dissection is performed with the aid of anaesthetics; over one-half of such animals are killed before they regain consciousness.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,731778,00.html   (452 words)

  
 Profile
And of course, there are the two Pulitzer Prizes.
Millets first Pulitzer was for the reporting on both cases.
Pulitzer Prizes in 1967 and 1976 for malfunctions of justice, common enough in Florida.
www.depauw.edu /library/archives/ijhof/inductees/millerg.htm   (695 words)

  
 Encyclopedia
In his compelling novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927; awarded the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in fiction), Wilder united the lives of a disparate group of travelers in colonial Peru through a single event, the disaster in which they die.
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), a hilarious view of human life through the ages, won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize in drama.
One of Wilder’s most successful works, The Matchmaker (1954), derived ultimately from a 19th-century English farce, was made into a motion picture in 1958 and adapted in 1964 as the musical comedy Hello, Dolly!, which was in turn filmed in 1969.
www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..wi048500.a   (640 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)

  
 Barnard College Newscenter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Interpreter of Maladies, portrays characters who navigate between the worlds of India and the United States and suffer dislocation and disruption brought on by India’s tumultuous political history.
The author of four best-selling novels, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her commentary in The New York Times.
Walker, famous for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, will close the conference with a keynote lecture at 5:15 P.M. Walker helped spark a renaissance of interest in Hurston in the mid-1970s, when all of Hurston’s books were out of print.
www.barnard.edu /newnews/news090403.html   (730 words)

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