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  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prize is a United States award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism.
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.
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 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
(1924-) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow U of I alumnus Arthur M. Petacque for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder case of Illinois Sen. Charles Percy’s daughter.
(1890-1971) received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography twice: in 1933 for Grover Cleveland and in 1937 for Hamilton Fish.
(1944-) shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his work on a family’s struggle with poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug abuse in Washington, D.C. Dash became a U of I faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (802 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917.
The Swedish Academy of Letters, in awarding the $825,000 prize, proclaimed her “a literary artist of the first rank” and offered high praise for her masterful style by adding, “She delves into the language itself, a...
Pulitzer was the grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, of which he became editor and publisher in 1955 on the death of his father.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061873   (744 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize Thumbnails Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The first Pulitzer prizes were awarded in 1917, but the committee chose not to name a winner in the Novel (now Fiction) category.
Athough 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 and twice for plays; Robert Penn Warren, once for a novel and twice for poetry; and Norman Mailer, once for a novel and once for nonfiction.
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 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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 ipedia.com: Pulitzer Prize Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States.
The very first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
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 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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 StreetSceneInfo
His Street Scene (1929), a realistic drama that focused on the New York City slums, received the 1929 Pulitzer Prize in drama and in 1947 was made into an opera by the American poet Langston Hughes [1902-1967] and the German-born American composer Kurt Weill [1900-1950].
Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911], born in Hungary in 1847, came to these shores at the age of seventeen to fight with the Union Army in the Civil War [1861-1865].
FOR CONTEXT, the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953] for Strange Interlude and the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for drama went to Marc Connely for The Green Pastures; incidentally, Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
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 CBS News | Panel Mulls Revoking Pulitzer | June 11, 2003 04:43:22
(AP) A Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1932 to a New York Times correspondent is under review and could be revoked because of complaints that he deliberately ignored the forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions.
No Pulitzer has ever been revoked in the 86 years that the prize has been awarded.
Although the foreign correspondent won the Pulitzer that year, it was for stories he had written a year earlier.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/06/11/national/main558009.shtml   (618 words)

  
 Playbill News: Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Be Announced April 5
Pulitzer rules state the prize go to "a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life." While much of Wife is set in von Mahlsdorf's Germany, the story is told from the viewpoint of playwright Wright, who is himself a character in the play.
All entries for this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama were to be submitted by a March 1, 2004, deadline.
The Pulitzer Prize — named for American journalist and publisher Joseph Pulitzer — was established in 1917, a stipulation of Mr.
www.playbill.com /news/article/85268.html   (886 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.
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)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar - Current Issue
Donald Margulies, an award-winning playwright and Yale faculty member, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama this week for "Dinner with Friends," a play about how a married couple's divorce affects their friends.
Lewis Spratlan, who won the prize in music for "Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version," received his B.A. from Yale College in 1962 and his M.M. from the Yale School of Music in 1965.
His Pulitzer is only the most recent in a series of awards and honors that includes two Obies, a Dramatist Guild Hull-Warner Award and a Lucille Lortel Award.
www.yale.edu /opa/v28.n28/story1.html   (891 words)

  
 N.Y. Times keeps disputed 1932 Pulitzer - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
NEW YORK — The 1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to a New York Times reporter accused of deliberately ignoring the forced famine in Ukraine will not be revoked, the board for the journalism awards said yesterday.
It was the second time since 1990 that the Pulitzer Board has decided against revoking the award.
The prize was once returned, however, when Janet Cooke, a reporter for The Washington Post, surrendered her Pulitzer in 1981 after admitting she had fabricated stories.
www.washtimes.com /national/20031121-105023-1820r.htm   (521 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donations are tax-deductible in the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
1929: John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet
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 Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize Winner- History- April 17, 2000
We continue our conversations with this year's winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in the arts, and to Elizabeth Farnsworth.
He is a professor of history at Stanford university and has also written books about World War I and the history of the birth control movement in the United States.
The other, as you just mentioned, the other point that may be worth remembering in these tumultuous times is this great stock market crash of 1929 was no kind of direct cause of the Great Depression that followed.
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 Pulitzer Prize For Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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)

  
 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 Prizes in Drama
THE PULITZER PRIZES Atlanta teacher wins drama award Margaret Edson's 'Wit,' a play about cancer, is honored (The Atlanta Constitution)
Pulitzer Prize for drama goes to `Topdog/Underdog'; biography to McCullough for `John Adams' (AP Worldstream)
Neil Simon wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama for "Lost in Yonkers." Page A-10 (The Record (Bergen County, NJ))
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 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
BERKELEY, CA-- Michael Chabon, 37, poses in the living room of his Berkeley, California home after learning that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday April 16, 2001.
BERKELEY, CA-- Michael Chabon, 37, gets a hug from his wife Ayelet Waldman in their Berkeley, California home after learning that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday April 16, 2001.
Edward Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his book on slavery "The Known World." (KRT Photos)
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 Authors - LIVE AND INTERNET AUCTION PART II
MARGARET MITCHELL (1900 - 1949) American author, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her epic novel Gone With the Wind.
ELIOT (1888 - 1965) British poet, critic and Nobel Prize winner, some of his works were adapted for the stage, such as Cats.
As you probably know, a bill is to be introduced by the Library of Congress, which we hope will substitute for the existing copyright term of fifty-six years...
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 Street Scene Summary & Essays - Elmer Rice
Since its debut on January 10, 1929, at The Playhouse on Broadway in New York City, Street Scene has been considered one of Elmer Rice’s most successful works and has cemented his reputation as a serious playwright.
When Street Scene won the Pulitzer Prize, J. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote, ‘‘It is saturated in the America that is New York.
It is the finest wrought chiaroscuro of middle-class life that an American dramatist has drawn across the stage.
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 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   (727 words)

  
 '29 play set 'Scene' for drawing from the gritty side of life
Valley audiences have a rare chance to return to the era when Scottsdale Community College's Theatre Arts Department revives Street Scene, Elmer Rice's 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a couple trying to keep their marriage together while dealing with their daughter's unsatisfactory love affair.
Considered groundbreaking at the time, especially in its realistic tenement setting, the work is better known today through Kurt Weill's 1947 opera, which the German composer based on Rice's script.
Until 1929 and Street Scene, his only work of any prominence was 1923's The Adding Machine, a bit of surrealism that, nevertheless, was based on real people and events.
www.azcentral.com /ent/arts/articles/0414onstage14.html   (686 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize
When Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the New York World died in 1911.
In his will left $2 million for the establishment of a school of journalism at Columbia University and annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism.
Since 1922 Pulitzer Prizes have also been awarded to cartoonists.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ARTpulitzer.htm   (97 words)

  
 Converse College Undergraduate Academic Programs
She has also received a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Glasgow Prize.
Established in 1998 by the Department of English and Creative Writing at Converse College, the Julia Peterkin Award is a national contest honoring the finest young poets and writers in America.
The award is named for Converse graduate Julia Mood Peterkin who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary.
www.converse.edu /Academics/majors/engJuliaPeterkinAward.html   (218 words)

  
 John E Mack Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The mission of the John E. Mack Institute is to explore the frontiers of human experience, to serve the transformation of individual consciousness, and to further the evolution of the paradigms by which we understand human identity.
We dedicate the Institute in the name of Dr John Mack (1929-2004), Pulitzer Prize winning author and Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, to honor his courageous examination of human experience and his landmark explorations of the ways in which perceptions and beliefs about reality shape the human condition.
Our work has evolved from a spiritual or transformational worldview which is, at its core, a perspective of connectedness, or a break down of separateness.
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