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  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
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 "The Pulitzer Prize in Music: 1943-2002"
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary and grew up amid affluence and aristocratic privilege.His decision to come to America in 1864 was a direct result of his determination to become a soldier.While on a visit to Germany, he had met U.S. recruiters and enlisted to fight as a Union soldier in the Civil War.
A controversial music Pulitzer was awarded in 1992 and spawned a tidal wave of responses and commentaries in newspapers throughout the country.
The 1996 prize was awarded to George Walker for his "Lilacs" (on a text from Walt Whitman for voice and orchestra) which was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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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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 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
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
His next plays— The Petrified Forest (1935), a melodrama set in the Arizona desert; Idiot's Delight (1936; Pulitzer Prize), an antiwar drama; and There Shall Be No Night (1940; Pulitzer Prize), about the Russian invasion of Finland—depict a civilization on the brink of disaster.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938; Pulitzer Prize), one of his most notable efforts, concerns Lincoln's early years.
On the basis of the papers of Harry Hopkins he wrote a memoir, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948; Pulitzer Prize), one of the most important documents on World War II.
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 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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......
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 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.
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 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction Quiz
Who won the Pulitzer in 1921 for The Age of Innocence?
The Grapes of Wrath was the winner of the Prize in 1940.
To Kill a Mockingbird won the Prize in 1961.
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 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......
Ford tough: Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford on why we need literature, the importance of imagination and his propensity to get......
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 Poet Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
For "Annie Allen" (1949), Brooks was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Yet, whether her husband was a model for the misogynist boor, Sir John Brute in "The Ladies' Defence", or the lover who has the sense to prize wit in a woman with a beauteous mind, we do not know.
The recipient in 1982 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1984 of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, she was made a MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1992.
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Sandburg is probably best known for his poem about fog (which "comes on little cat feet"), or for his characterisations of Chicago ("Hog butcher for the world"), but it's for his biography of Abraham Lincoln that he won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize.
(1948); New Jersey-born novelist Norman Mailer (1923); Japanese novelist and 1994 Nobelist Oe Kenzaburo (1935)
She won the Hawthornden Prize for her long poem "The Land" in 1927.
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 Tomfolio.com: Literature, Pulitzer Prize
Bates, J. Douglas The Pulitzer Prize Publisher: Birch Lane Press New York, NY 1991.
The great historian of the American South Comer Vann Woodward (1908-99) won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for history for this much-praised work.
"Pulitzer Prize Novel" printed in white circle on front panel of the dj.
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 February Literary Birthdays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Sinclair Lewis, born in Sauk Center, Minn., was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
in 1925; Lewis refused the Pulitzer Prize of $1000 for
When Lewis accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, he "lived up to his reputation as a non-conformist and firebrand by his vehement speech in which he attacked the professors and men of letters who would subject American literature to conventional standards of taste and morals." (
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 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.
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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.
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 Island of Freedom - Wystan Hugh Auden
Auden immigrated to the United States in 1939 (he became an American citizen in 1946) and at about the same time returned to the religion of his youth, Anglicanism.
His wide-ranging intellectual interests and his technical virtuosity in a variety of metrical forms are apparent in such works as The Double Man (1941), For the Time Being (1944), and the 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Anxiety (1947).
These works also bear the stamp of his religious reaffirmation, although this is expressed by treating questions concerning existence rather than by discussing his own spiritual struggles and achievements.
www.island-of-freedom.com /AUDEN.HTM   (772 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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.
Ultimately it's heartbreaking and stirring, and the reader will remember Empire Falls as vividly as if they'd personally visited the town itself.
www.powells.com /prizes/pulitzer_fiction.html   (543 words)

  
 W. H. Auden - Poems and Biography by PoetryConnection.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
His Double Man and For the Times Being reflect an increasing concern with religion, which, he discovered, offered a better solution to his problems than communism.
The Age of Anxiety, a "baroque eclogue" that takes place in a New York City bar, won him the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and provided an apt and convenient name for his era.
His numerous other works include Collected Poetry, the Shield of Achilles, Collected Longer Poems, and several opera librettos written with the American Chester Kallman.
www.poetryconnection.net /poets/W._H._Auden   (451 words)

  
 May 3 Events in History
May 3, 1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
May 3, 1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick
May 3, 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams
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 MacKinlay Kantor - Pulitzer Prize Winner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This led him to write his novel, Andersonville, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1956.
His novel Glory for Me was made into the Academy Award winning movie "The Best Years of Our Lives" in 1948.
Many novels relate to Webster City and the people that he knew from here.
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 Pulitzer Prize Biography Autobiography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Caro previously won in 1975 for The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Note: Lewis already received the Pulitzer in 1994 for his first half of Du Bois' biography, W.E.B. Dubois : Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
1948 Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp
www.literature-awards.com /pulitzer_prize_biography.htm   (981 words)

  
 Available Photography - Pulitzer Prize Collection @ GALLERY M
Available Photography - Pulitzer Prize Collection @ GALLERY M
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 Between the Covers Rare Books | Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Scroll through all entries — click a thumb for more info.
Established by Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York Globe, through an endowment to Columbia University.
The Fiction Award is given annually for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably dealing with American life.
www.betweenthecovers.com /aw-ab/pul-lit.htm   (163 words)

  
 Re: Rube and heath, was V-1 pilot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Not to be picky, but Rube Goldberg *was* a cartoonist, in fact he won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for one of his editorial cartoons.
He also wrote movies and was involved in Vaudeville.
In a message dated 7/17/98 12:19:26 PM Central Daylight Time, RPICKWOA@apsc.com writes: > > Not to be picky, but Rube Goldberg *was* a cartoonist, in fact he won > the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for one of his editorial cartoons.
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 Directing History, overview
The 19th-century interest in realism, coupled with far-reaching technical advances, made indispensable the director's function of integrating the various and increasingly complex aspects of play production.
1920 Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, is produced on Broadway and wins a Pulitzer Prize, marking the beginning of modern American drama.
Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey Into Night is produced posthumously and wins both the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize.
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 Beebe Library - Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year.
Click on the links below to find these books in our catalog.
1948 - Forgotten first citizen : John Bigelow, by Margaret Clapp
www.wakefieldlibrary.org /Pulitzerbioglist.htm   (1022 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Finalists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Pulitzer Prize is a US literary award given out each April.
The correct pronunciation, according to administrators of the prize, should sound like "Pull it, sir." Aside from the journalism awards, there are also five letters (books) categories.
Prior to 1980, only the winners were named.
www.booklists.net /pulitzer_prize_winners_and_finalists.html   (5097 words)

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