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  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, became the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
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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 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
(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   (792 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.
www.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)

  
 Stephen Dunn 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Dunn said the full impact of winning the Pulitzer Prize had not hit him, a few minutes after the word was officially flashed over the news wires and the Pulitzer website.
Rutgers professor Charles Wuorinen won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in music, Rutgers Professor of History David Levering Lewis won in 1993 for his biography on W.E. Du Bois; and Rutgers Professor Emeritus George Walker won in 1996 in Music.
At Princeton University, Yusef Komunyakaa won the 1998 prize for poetry, John McPhee won the 1999 Prize for general non-fiction literature, and Charles Kenneth Williams, won the 1998 Prize for poetry.
www2.stockton.edu /sdunn   (688 words)

  
 UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication-Alumni & Donors
A recipient of numerous awards for reporting excellence, including two Pulitzer Prizes, he is one of the nation's outstanding young investigative reporters.
The subsequently series of stories earned him and other task force members a 1973 Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting, the 1973 Illinois Associated Press award for investigative reporting and the Outstanding Public Service Award from the Illinois United Press.
During 1974, Mullen and Tribune photographer Ovie Carter traveled thousands of miles through Africa and India for their series, "The Faces of Hunger." For this they won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
www.journalism.wisc.edu /alumni/naf/mullen.html   (221 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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......
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0154415.html   (267 words)

  
 UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication-Celebrating our Centennial
In 2000 AP was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting based on four writers' examination of civilian deaths during the Korean War.
In 1993, along with Joseph B. White, deputy bureau chief, Paul was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished beat coverage of management turmoil at General Motors Corp. Their coverage also won a Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in business journalism.
During 1974, Bill and Tribune photographer Ovie Carter traveled thousands of miles through Africa and India for their series, "The Faces of Hunger." For this they won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
www.journalism.wisc.edu /centennial/cen_panelbios.htm   (4184 words)

  
 History Channel Search Results
A dense intermingling of the higher realms of learning and the lowest humor, grand history and base sexuality, the novel went on to win the 1974 National Book Award and was unanimously voted to receive the 1974
Pulitzer Prize for fiction, a decision that was eventually overruled by the full Pulitzer panel, citing the novel's obscenity.
A collection of short stories written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner, was published in 1984.
www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..py156950.a   (427 words)

  
 Hedrick Smith Papers (Library of Congress)
There is additional correspondence and material relating to Smith's Pulitzer Prize of 1974 in the Miscellany series.
The bulk of the series consists of papers relating to Smith's Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and his New York Times expense statements recording details of Smith's daily professional activities and contacts with government agencies.
The family papers include a compilation of Smith's letters from 1971 to 1972, which were read by his mother at her book club, describing some of his experiences while in Moscow.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/smithh.html   (1502 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.
A special Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Dr.
Before 1948 The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was referred to as Novel
www.bookawards.bizland.com /pulitzer_prize.htm   (608 words)

  
 The Harrelson Lecture-2004-2005 Lecturer
Its depiction of“everywoman” at three different stages of her life received Best Play awards from the New York Drama Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle and earned Albee his third Pulitzer Prize, an honor that is bested only by Eugene O’Neill’s four awards.
Born in Washington, DC, Albee was adopted as an infant by Reid Albee, the son of Edward Franklin Albee of the powerful Keith-Albee vaudeville chain.
In 1975, Albee won his second Pulitzer Prize with Seascape, which combined theatrical experiment and social commentary in a story about a retired vacationing couple who meet a pair of sea lizards at the beach.
www.ncsu.edu /provost/Harrelson_Lecture/edward_albee.htm   (658 words)

  
 Profile
From the Star's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning series on police corruption in Indianapolis, a series he co-reported with Harley Bierce and Richard Cady:
In addition to the Pulitzer, Anderson won national awards including the George Polk Memorial Award, the National Headliner Club's Tom Paprocki Memorial Award, a Drew Peason Award for investigative reporting, a Society of Professional Journalists bronze medallion and an Associated Press Managing Editors award.
And he helped bring this newspaper one of the handful of Pulitzer Prizes that have been won in Indiana.
www.depauw.edu /library/archives/ijhof/inductees/andersonw.htm   (979 words)

  
 frontline: jefferson's blood: chronology: a popular but controversial biography (1974) | PBS
Beginning in late spring 1974, Thomas Jefferson was on the New York Times best-seller list for thirteen weeks.
[and] a powerful and touching portrait." Stegner went on to characterize Brodie's biography as a serious contender for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in biography, a remarkable statement given that his own recently published biography of Utah-born Bernard De Voto was itself being touted as a Pulitzer Prize contender.
Brodie applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in April 1974.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/cron/1974brodie.html   (1333 words)

  
 Reading Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers: A Graduate Research Workshop
He has published eighteen books and is the recipient of many prestigious awards and honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975 and, in 1997, was recognized with both the Bollingen Poetry Prize and the John Hay Award for Nature Writing.
He was appointed to the California Arts Council by Governor Jerry Brown in 1974, and served for six years as an active member of that arts/cultural organization during its most productive and controversial period.
A reflection of the unusual balance of his literary, ecological, and public policy interests is the conferring of two distinctive literary awards--the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the John Hay Award for Nature Writing--within two weeks of each other in early 1997.
shc.stanford.edu /shc/1997-1998/97-98workshops/Gary.Snyder.html   (1501 words)

  
 Playbill News: Pulitzers Decide to Award No Prize for Drama in 2006
For the first time in nearly a decade, the Pulitzer Prize committee has decided not to bestow a Drama award.
For years, the eligibility period ran from spring to spring, but, due to a recent ruling change, it was cut short at the end of 2005, leading to a truncated span of consideration running from March 2 to Dec. 31.
The Pulitzer Prize — named for American journalist and publisher Joseph Pulitzer — was established in 1917, a stipulation of Pulitzer's will.
www.playbill.com /news/article/99119.html   (723 words)

  
 Anne Sexton: Photograph & Commentary by Gwendolyn Stewart
The poster is 18x24", with a white border around the full-length image of the photograph as shown, but without the labels.
"The high point of the winter for Sexton was the reading arranged for her at Sanders Theater on 7 March [1974] by the Harvard Literary Club.
Since this reading was to serve as the Boston debut of The Death Notebooks, she was ambitious for a big turnout.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~gestewar/sexton.html   (728 words)

  
 Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Local News
The story won White the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting -- and prompted Nixon to say, "I am not a crook," one of the most infamous lines in American politics.
On May 6, 1974, White was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
AFTER WINNING the Pulitzer, White continued investigative reporting at The Journal until 1978, when he left print journalism for a higher paying job at WBZ-TV in Boston.
www.projo.com /news/content/projo_20051013_white13.18478c09.html   (1915 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917.
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.
www.powells.com /prizes/pulitzer_fiction.html   (543 words)

  
 Babynamer on Oxygen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
This prize has been awarded annually since 1917 for a book on the history of the United States.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for History, in 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and in 1987 for Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for History, in 1955 for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History and in 1976 for Lamy of Santa Fe
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 Gary Snyder
He has been highly recognized for balancing his literary writing and his public policy environmental efforts with the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the John Hay Award for Nature Writing.
Snyder was appointed to the California Arts Council in 1974, and served for six years as an active member of that arts/cultural organization.
Snyder was born in San Francisco, and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and his earliest experiences there in the natural and wild worlds imprint his work and thought to this day.
resources.ca.gov /snyderpoetryreading.html   (415 words)

  
 The Harvard Guide: Prize-winning Scholars
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually for outstanding contributions to American journalism, letters, and music.
Since 1919, Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded numerous times to faculty members - and some professors have won multiple times.
* Prize awarded before appointment to the faculty.
www.news.harvard.edu /guide/faculty/fac2.html   (59 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Lowell Wins a Pulitzer Prize For Verse Book 'The Dolphin'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The honor is the second major prize that Lowell has captured in the last month.
Lowell's prize-winning book is a continuation of his experimentation with the sonnet begun in "Notebook 1967-68." "Lowell invented the unrhymed 14-line form about seven years ago, and since then has made thousands of revisions," Elizabeth Bishop, lecturer on English and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, said yesterday.
The $1000 prize is given by trustees of Columbia University upon the recommendation of an advisory board of unnamed jurors
www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=346218   (342 words)

  
 Donald Martino, 74, Pulitzer-winning composer, teacher at local colleges - The Boston Globe
Donald Martino, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who lived in Newton, died Thursday off the coast of Antigua while on a Caribbean cruise.
The cause of death was cardiac arrest following an attack of hyperglycemia.
His 1974 Pulitzer Prize came for ''Notturno," a work for flute, clarinet, violin cello, and piano, a work of night moods, night fantasies.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/12/13/donald_martino_74_pulitzer_winning_composer_teacher_at_local_colleges   (967 words)

  
 Augustana College News
Albee’s second Tony Award came in 2002 for “The Goat -or- Who Is Sylvia?” During the intervening years, he was awarded Pulitzer Prizes for “A Delicate Balance” (1966), “Seascape” (1974), and “Three Tall Women” (1991), cementing his reputation as one of the most influential figures in modern American theater.
Writing in a style that combines traditional and avant garde influences, Albee became recognized as a leader of theater movement in which the surreal could be presented alongside the realistic.
Since then, two dozen of Albee’s plays have been produced, including three Pulitzer Prize and two Tony Award winners, one of which was presented as recently as 2002 for “The Goat -or- Who Is Sylvia?”
www.augustana.edu /news/articles/index.php?action=news&ID=210&date1=03/23/05   (554 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)

  
 UNL News Releases 3/27/98
Lincoln (Neb.) - March 27, 1998 - "Russia's Rocky Road to Freedom" is the title of the final lecture in the 1997-98 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at 3:30 p.m.
Hedrick Smith, who won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting as the Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, will speak in the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Smith will provide an insightful look at the remarkable changes taking place in Russia, from its fragile democratic institutions to its "cowboy capitalism." He will describe how the masses continue to grumble while a new and rich elite amasses enormous amounts of money.
www.unl.edu /pr/398/32798anews.html   (201 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize For Poetry
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)

  
 Award Winners: Pulitzer Prize, Drama - Fletcher Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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   (1802 words)

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