1968 Pulitzer Prize - Factbites
 Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: 1968 Pulitzer Prize


    Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography has been awarded since 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
Before 1968, there was only one photgraphy category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into spot news or breaking news and the feature categories.
This was originally nominated in the Spot News Photography section, but was moved by the board to Feature Photography.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Feature_Photography   (927 words)

  
 Amazon.co.jpF —m‘: The Naked and the Dead
He has written thirty-one books, including Armies of the Night (1968), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Executioner's Song (1979), which also won the Pulitzer, and more recently, Harlot's Ghost.
, The Armies of the Night, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1968, and The Executioner's Song, which won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize.
Norman Mailer 's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is widely regarded as one of the finest American novels of the twentieth century.
www.amazon.co.jp /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312265050/ref=nosim/brachmancom-22?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE   (927 words)

  
 So You Won a Pulitzer - Who cares? By Jack Shafer
In the late '60s, the Pulitzers expanded with the profligacy of the National Hockey League, growing to 10 by 1968, 11 by 1970, and finally settling at today's 14 categories.
I doubt that one newspaper reader in 10,000 could tell you a day after the Pulitzers are awarded who got the prize for explanatory reporting.
In a perfect world, the prizes would be treated as footnotes rather than the stuff of headlines, yet they make many a front page the day after they're announced, especially in the winning newspapers.
www.slate.com /id/2098361   (909 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.
David M. Kennedy, the Stanford University professor who won the prize in history for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-45," received his M.A. in 1964 and his Ph.D. in 1968, both from Yale.
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)

  
 Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography The 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or...
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography The 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American aut...
Pulitzer Prize for History The 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/prize.html   (891 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
The prize for photography was established in 1942, and was divided in 1968 into spot or breaking news and feature photography.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by a provision in the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
Pulitzer created the prizes as an incentive to excellence in journalism, education, and letters and drama.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (385 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (1167 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, became the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (1167 words)

  
 Libraries of Recommended Reading for High School
William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (1995 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction).
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.
www.schoolhousebooksweb.com /20_cent_hs.html   (1167 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
Pulitzer created the prizes as an incentive to excellence in journalism, education, and letters and drama.
Since 1917 when the first prizes were awarded, the Pulitzer Prize Board has increased the number of awards to 21 and introduced poetry, music and photography as subjects.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by a provision in the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (385 words)

  
 NPR : Two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, NORMAN MAILER, joins us to talk about his new book O...
In 1968, He won a Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night and was again a Pulitzer recipient in 1980 for The Executioner's Song.
Two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, NORMAN MAILER, joins us to talk about his new book O...
Fresh Air from WHYY, April 27, 1995 · Two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, NORMAN MAILER, joins us to talk about his new book Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House 1995.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1108390   (385 words)

  
 Women Nobel and Pulitzer Prize Winners (Reference)
In 1968, a Nobel Prize of economic sciences was established by Riksbank, the Swedish bank, in celebration of its 300th anniversary.
The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama, and music.
The prizes for physics and chemistry are awarded by the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm, the one for physiology or medicine by the Caroline Medical Institute in Stockholm, that for literature by the Academy in Stockholm, and that for peace by a committee of five elected by the Norwegian Storting.
www.teachervision.fen.com /page/5003.html   (385 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (1167 words)

  
 The Haggin Museum - Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs - Pulitzer Prize Facts
In 1968, the Pulitzer Board established two Pulitzer Prize for photography, Spot or Breaking News and Feature, both judged by the same jury.
The Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism was established in 1942.
The Pulitzer Board has the power to deny an award if they feel that none of the entries measure up to the standards of the prize, an option they have exercised only once in 1946.
www.hagginmuseum.org /exhibitions/pulitzer/facts.htm   (277 words)

  
 Female Nobel Prize Laureates
Women have won Prizes in all categories with the exception of Economics (which was established in 1968 and first awarded in 1969).
History of Women in Science for Young People, by Vivian Sheldon Epstein, is an outstanding resource for schools seeking role models for young women interested in science.
In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman, Marie Curie, for the first time.
www.almaz.com /nobel/women.html   (277 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes
(1929-) received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Echoes of Time and the River, commissioned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the University of Chicago.
(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.
(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.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (792 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes
(1929-) received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Echoes of Time and the River, commissioned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the University of Chicago.
(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.
(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.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (792 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes
(1929-) received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Echoes of Time and the River, commissioned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the University of Chicago.
(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.
(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.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (802 words)

  
 WHITE HOUSE MILLENNIUM EVENING
Professor Bailyn won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes (1968) for Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), the National Book Award in History in 1975 for The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974), and the Pulitzer Prize in History, for Voyagers to the West (1986).
The former president of the American Historical Association, he is a foreign member of the British Academy and the Mexican Academy of History and Geography; in 1994 he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences, the first American historian to be elected to that body since George Bancroft in 1867.
These innovations were developed over time by the colonials to protect the self-rule and ideas of liberty they felt were under attack by the assertion of British authority in the American colonies in the 1760's and 1770's.
clinton2.nara.gov /Initiatives/Millennium/bailyn.html   (660 words)

  
 Jet: Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, Who Won Pulitzer Prize For Poetry, Dies.(Brief Article)(Obituary)@ HighBeam Research
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who promoted an understanding of Black culture through her poetry while suggesting inclusiveness as the key to harmony, recently died of cancer.
Brooks became the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her second book of poetry, Annie Allen.
She wrote hundreds of poems, had more than 20 books published, and has been Illinois' poet laureate since 1968.
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:68648281&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (207 words)

  
 Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs
The exhibit, "The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment," features more than 100 images drawn from each year's winning entries from 1941—the first year a photograph was eligible for the award—up to the present.
The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment was developed by the Newseum, the interactive museum of news located in Arlington, VA, in association with Business of Entertainment, Inc., New York City, Cyma Rubin, Curator.
Perkins, with colleagues Carol Guzy and Michael Williamson, received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for photos depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees.
www.wshs.org /wshm/exhibit-pulitzer.htm   (509 words)

  
 News Release 4/2004: Photojournalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
The prize for photography was established in 1942, and was divided in 1968 into spot or breaking news and feature photography.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by a provision in the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
Pulitzer created the prizes as an incentive to excellence in journalism, education, and letters and drama.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200404/nr_communication040426.html   (385 words)

  
 Michigan State University Newsroom - Pulitzer Prize winner to deliver 2004 Siebert Lecture
He won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for coverage of the 1976 presidential campaign and election.
The MSU School of Journalism established the Siebert Lecture series in 1968 in honor of Frederick S. Siebert, director of the School of Journalism from 1957 to 1960 and dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences from 1960 to 1967.
He is the author of “Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning, A Reporter's Story” and the co-author of “The News Business” and “The New News Business,” with former NBC anchor John Chancellor.
newsroom.msu.edu /site/indexer/2216/content.htm   (393 words)

  
 So You Won a Pulitzer - Who cares? By Jack Shafer
In the late '60s, the Pulitzers expanded with the profligacy of the National Hockey League, growing to 10 by 1968, 11 by 1970, and finally settling at today's 14 categories.
I doubt that one newspaper reader in 10,000 could tell you a day after the Pulitzers are awarded who got the prize for explanatory reporting.
In a perfect world, the prizes would be treated as footnotes rather than the stuff of headlines, yet they make many a front page the day after they're announced, especially in the winning newspapers.
www.slate.com /id/2098361   (930 words)

  
 Jack Rakove
Jack Rakove, Haverford Class of 1968, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History.
The Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University was awarded the prize for his book Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.
In his work, Rakove argues that "originalism," the practice of interpreting the Constitution by a fixed set of the Framer's intentions, should not be the only approach to settling today's judicial questions.
www.haverford.edu /publications/summ97magazine/Rakove.html   (74 words)

  
 700 FAMOUS NEBRASKANS - Journalism and Mass Communication
Journalist, editorial writer for the Hearst organization after 1936, served at Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco newspapers, all Hearst newspapers carried his editorials, recipient of 1931 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing on the value of U.S. Senator George W. Norris while editor of the Fremont/NE/ Tribune.
Journalist, author, was one of New York Times team of writers who earned the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism, wrote for Time from 1954 to 1963 but resigned when the magazine did not publish his reports on the Vietnam War, awarded Bronze Star for attempting to save life of a wounded Marine.
Journalist, received 1966 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing, published an editorial in early 1965 presenting the case for United States withdrawal from Vietnam before troop increases had occurred.
www.nebpress.com /700/jour.html   (2034 words)

  
 New Page 1
When Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, Moneta Sleet covered the funeral, resulting in the Pulitzer winning photograph of Dr. King’s grieving widow Coretta and youngest daughter Bernice.
became the first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography.
He later covered Dr. King’s acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.
www.state.ky.us /agencies2/kchr/MonetaSleet.htm   (249 words)

  
 mediabistro: Content: Spotlight
1968 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography: Electric lineman resuscitates injured colleague in Jacksonville, Fla.
"The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment" is the largest and most comprehensive display of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever shown in the United States.
1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography: U.S. Marines raise American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in the South Pacific.
www.mediabistro.com /spotlight/archives/01/04/18   (507 words)

  
 Anecdote - Edna Ferber - Edna Ferber
Ferber, Edna (1887-1968) American writer [noted for such novels as So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize)]
www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=9178   (507 words)

  
 Theatre Development FundDoubt is 28th Pulitzer Prize-winning play to have received subsidy support from TDF
When John Patrick Shanley's Doubt was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama earlier this week, it became the 28th Pulitzer winner in the past 37 years to share the distinction of having initially received subsidy support from Theatre Development Fund for its New York debut.
The following is a list of these productions which went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Theatre Development FundDoubt is 28th Pulitzer Prize-winning play to have received subsidy support from TDF
www.tdf.org /pressreleases/doubt.html   (362 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.