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	Kerr, Walter Francis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1978 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism for "the whole body of his critical work." Kerr's reviewing career began when he was 13, critiquing films for the Evanston...
		In 1978 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism for "the whole body of his critical work." Kerr's reviewing career began when he was 13, critiquing films for the Evanston Review.
		The English critic and man of letters Walter Raleigh was a prominent figure at the University of Oxford in his time.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9113223 (753 words)

	Authors on the Web -- Author's Summer Reading List -John Sandford
		From 1971 to 1978, he worked as a general assignment reporter for the Miami Herald, covering killings and drug cases, among other beats, with his colleague, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edna Buchanan.
		In the same year, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for an article he wrote on the Native American communities in Minnesota and North Dakota and their modern day social problems.
		In 1986, Camp won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for a series of articles on the farm crisis in the Midwest.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/summer03/sandford_john.asp (587 words)

	Faculty: James V. Risser
		He is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Gridiron Club of Washington, and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Reuter Foundation of London.
		A practicing attorney before he turned to journalism, Risser has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, in 1976 and 1979.
		He won the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting in 1976 and 1978 as well as the Thomas L. Stokes Award for environmental reporting in 1971 and 1978.
	communication.stanford.edu /faculty/risser.html (175 words)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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)

	John Cheever
		THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER (1978) won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Books Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award.
		Hammer is the illegitimate son of a kleptomaniac, and he plans to awaken the suburban world - by burning Eliot's son Tony in a church.
		Cheever died in 1982, at the age of 70, in Ossinning, New York.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /cheever.htm (792 words)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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.
		(1920-) has twice won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography: in 1961 for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and in 1988 for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe.
	www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html (792 words)

	Pulitzer Prize for Commentary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary has been awarded since 1970.
		1978: William Safire, New York Times, for commentary on the Bert Lance affair.
		1993: Liz Balmaseda, Miami Herald, for her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Commentary (580 words)

	Safire, William L. on Encyclopedia.com
		From 1973 to 2005 his editorial columns in the New York Times provided a consistently conservative and outspoken perspective on American politics, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his commentary in 1978.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-S1afireW1ll.asp (580 words)

	Poets Jorie Graham and James McMichael to Read at the Library of Congress
		James McMichael is the author of The Lover's Familiar (1978), Four Good Things (1980), Each in a Place Apart (1994) and The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971- 1996 (1996).
		Jorie Graham won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for her collection The Dream of a Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994 (1995).
		McMichael is the recipient of a Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/1998/98-031.html (580 words)

	eBulletin - Circle of Friends Host Pulitzer Prize Winning Political Cartoonist Jim Morin
		Morin, who has been at The Miami Herald since 1978, was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
		He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1977 and 1990.
		Members of the Circle of Friends and the community recently gathered at the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center for “An Evening with Editorial Cartoonist Jim Morin” The Miami Herald Pulitzers Prize-winning political cartoonist.
	www.nova.edu /cwis/ia/pubaffairs/ebulletin/sneak_peeks/nov9/morin.html (580 words)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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)

	UT Journalism: Pulitzer Prizes: Ronald Cortes
		Ron Cortes received the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for explanatory journalism as a photojournalist with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
		Source: Pulitzer Prize website sponsored by the Columbia Journalism Review.
		For more information on the Pulitzer Prize, winners and their work, visit the official Pulitzer Prizes web site sponsored by the Columbia Journalism Review.
	journalism.utexas.edu /awards/pprize/rcor.html (802 words)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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)

	Poets Laureate and Pulitzer Poetry Prize Winners of the United States of America.
		His ten books of poetry include "Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected," "Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays," and "The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978," (winner of the Pulitzer Prize).
		Before that, from 1937 to 1985, the Librarian of Congress had authority to appoint someone to Library of Congress Poetry Position, the post of "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress." The name was changed by an act of Congress in 1985.
		Rita Dove championed children's poetry, jazz with poetry, and the exploration of the African diaspora.
	www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/poets/poets.laureate.usa.htm (1454 words)

	Drama critic Walter Kerr dies
		In 1978, he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism for "the whole body of his critical work."
		NEW YORK -- Walter F. Kerr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and drama critic for the New York Times, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday.
		Kerr wrote 10 books, including Criticism and Censorship, How Not to Write a Play, and The Decline of Pleasure, but was probably best known as a writer for his book The Silent Clowns, a reference work on the silent film era.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/10/11/kerr-obit.0-0.html (319 words)

	Gail Caldwell - 2002 Outstanding Alumna Award
		GAIL CALDWELL, chief book critic at The Boston Globe and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, received her master's degree in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980.
		She also has been a finalist in criticism for the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award and has served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and as a nominator for the Irish Times Fiction Prize.
		Caldwell received her bachelor of arts degree in American Studies from UT in 1978 and was an instructor at the University in 1980-81 after receiving her master's degree.
	www.utexas.edu /ogs/awards/alumnus/awardpages/g_caldwell.html (208 words)

	NPR : Bill Marimow
		As a reporter, Marimow co-wrote stories which received the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished public service in 1978.
		Marimow also spent 21 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a reporter for 15 years -- from 1972 to 1987-- and later served as New Jersey editor, city editor and assistant to the publisher.
		The story received a Robert F. Kennedy award for radio reporting and an award for Investigative Reporters & Editors for the best investigative reporting in radio in the nation.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4564642 (345 words)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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 Prize-winning author to speak at SIUC
		He previously received the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the Middle East in 1983 from Lebanon, and again in 1988 from Israel.
		Friedman, the newspaper's foreign affairs columnist, received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, the third Pulitzer of his career.
		Friedman's newspaper career dates back to 1978 when he spent a year in London as a general assignment reporter for the London bureau of United Press International.
	news.siu.edu /news/April05/040105pr5032.jsp (491 words)

	UNF - Press Releases
		For his coverage of the Middle East, Friedman was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (from Israel) and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize International Reporting (from Lebanon).
		In 1978, Friedman received a master’s degree from Oxford University and immediately joined the London Bureau of United Press International (UPI).
		He lives in Bethesda, Md. with his wife and two daughters and is also on the board of trustees of Brandeis University where he completed his undergraduate studies.
	www.unf.edu /press-releases/bin/view2.pl?event=200108070 (388 words)

	Washington Week . Thomas Friedman PBS
		Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel).
		In 1978, he received a Masters degree in Modern Middle East Studies from Oxford and immediately thereafter joined the London Bureau of United Press International (UPI).
		Friedman spent a year in London doing general assignment reporting before being dispatched to Beirut as a UPI correspondent.
	www.pbs.org /weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/friedman.html (526 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.
		He was named an AP vice president in 1978.
		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)

	Pulitzer Prizes
		(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
		(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)

	Dantalian Inc: Sheet Music Publisher
		DANTALIAN, INC. was founded in 1978 to disseminate the music of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer DONALD MARTINO in fine sheet music editions.
		Martino has taught at The Third Street Music School Settlement in New York, Princeton, Yale, The New England Conservatory of Music, where he was chairman of the composition department from 1969-1979, Brandeis, where he was Irving Fine Professor of Music, and Harvard, where he is the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Emeritus.
		According to the New Grove, "Martino's music has been characterized as expansive, dense, lucid, dramatic, romantic, all of which are applicable.
	www.dantalian.com (358 words)

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