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Topic: 1992 Pulitzer Prize


  
  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The very first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and in recent times, they are announced each year, in the month of April.
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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 JCLC -- Award Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Pulitzer Prize, named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, honors books which address the largest themes in life, the raw passion and tragedy of the human condition.
Prizes in letters are awarded in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, history, poetry.
A Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 1986, Lonesome Dove is recommended for anyone interested in American culture and history, particularly that of the West.
www.jclc.org /MaterialsLists/ra/2003june5.asp   (1439 words)

  
 Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize, 1940), sometimes referred to as the twentieth-century Uncle Tom's Cabin, crystallized public opinion against the intolerable conditions of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl in the early 1930s.
In Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter (Pulitzer Prize, 1973), Laurel, a young professional woman, returns to Mississippi to be with her father during surgery and, a few weeks later, to preside over his funeral.
Alice Walker's epistolary novel The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize, 1983) traces thirty years in the life of Celie, a poor southern fl woman victimized physically and psychologically by her stepfather and her husband.
www.uwyo.edu /wch/bdppulitzer.htm   (747 words)

  
 LiteraryCritic.com -- Pulitzer Prize
In letters, prizes were to go to an American novel, an original American play performed in New York, a book on the history of the United States, an American biography, and a history of public service by the press.
However, the Pulitzer Prize advisory board was given discretion to change the set of awards over time, and since the inception of the prizes in 1917, the board has increased the number of awards to 21 and introducted poetry, music, and photography as subjects.
The prizes are awarded each April, by the president of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize board.
www.literarycritic.com /pulitzer.htm   (196 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize-winner Bill Gaines named to Knight Chair in Journalism
Bill Gaines, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner during 27 years as an investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune, has been named to the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Illinois.
His textbook, "Investigative Reporting for Print and Broadcast" was published in 1992 and in a second edition in 1998, and has been used in at least 60 journalism programs.
Gaines also was a finalist for two Pulitzers: in 1979, for a series about the problems of the elderly, and in 1995, for an investigation into the financial dealings of the Nation of Islam.
www.news.uiuc.edu /news/01/0711gaines.html   (655 words)

  
 Libraries of Recommended Reading for High School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (1995 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction).
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 The Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism.
Pulitzer did allow for broad changes in the system of awards, establishing an advisory board and giving it power to change the subjects in which awards are given.
Since the inception of the prizes in 1917, the board, later renamed the 'Pulitzer Prize Board', has increased the number of awards to 21 and introduced poetry, music, and photography as subjects, while adhering to the spirit of the founder's will and its intent.
www.dymocks.com.au /contentstatic/literarymatter/awards/pulitzer.asp   (361 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)

  
 "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.
www.american.edu /heintze/Pul1.htm   (3152 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.
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 Communication: Alumni : Pulitzer Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dan Malone received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1992 while a staff writer at the Dallas Morning News.
He was awarded the prize for his stories that charged Texas police with extensive misconduct and abuse of power.
Malone also was awarded first place in the freedom of information category by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editor's Association in 1992 and first place in investigative reporting by the Institute of Southern Studies in 1992.
communication.utexas.edu:16080 /alumni/pulitzer/malone.html   (153 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize. Who is Pulitzer Prize? What is Pulitzer Prize? Where is Pulitzer Prize? Definition of Pulitzer Prize. ...
The Pulitzer Prize is a US literary award given out each April.
The very first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917.
Public Service - For a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic resources which may include editorials, cartoons, and photographs, as well as reporting.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/jsp/db/viewWiki.jsp?title=Pulitzer+Prize   (571 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize-Drama-April 13,2000
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The Pulitzer for drama this year went to Donald Margulies for his play "Dinner with Friends." It's a rueful comedy about love, commitment, and friendship in the age of divorce.
During all of this Pulitzer mayhem, I'm also carving out the second half of a two-part mini- series, based on "A Man in Full," which is a considerable challenge.
You know, I don't think that I ever truly aspired to winning a Pulitzer Prize, but when I was a finalist in 1992, I think it was, for my play "Sight Unseen," it suddenly became something that was accessible to me in ways that I never really gave it much thought about before.
www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/jan-june00/margulies_4-13.html   (1471 words)

  
 Pulitzers in Music
Note: Although Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in other fields from 1917, 1943 is the first year for the award in music.
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for lifetime achievement as well as recognition for a single, great piece.
The Prize has been awarded for many years before music garnered any attention: it is too bad that one was not awarded in 1939, when Samuel Barber with his Violin Concerto, Roy Harris and the monolithic Third Symphony, or Copland's western ballet, Billy, the Kid would all be in contention.
www.minotaurz.com /minotaur/articles/pulitzer.html   (2712 words)

  
 Playbill News: John Patrick Shanley's Doubt Wins 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer is the first significant theatre prize Shanley has claimed in his quarter century as a playwright.
The play, which already won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, is a comedic account of a home in disarray in which a successful doctor discovers that her husband is having an affair with one of his patients.
The Pulitzer Prize — named for American journalist and publisher Joseph Pulitzer — was established in 1917, a stipulation of Mr.
www.playbill.com /news/article/92095.html   (1053 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)

  
 HistoryWiz Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Volumes I and II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.
With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect.
Volumes one and two of the Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a mouse's experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe and in German concentration camps are housed in a sturdy box.
books.historywiz.org /moreinfo/maus.htm   (1284 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 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.
The distribution of prizes was begun on December 10, 1901, the anniversary of Nobel's death.
www.teachervision.com /lesson-plans/lesson-5003.html   (1121 words)

  
 Inside, Feb. 9
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and English professor Jane Smiley will be featured Feb. 11 on the CBS television program Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood.
CBS is broadcasting the segment as a tie to the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 12, said CBS producer Lucy Scott.
Smiley's books include A Thousand Acres, for which she won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and Moo, a nominee for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award.
www.iastate.edu /Inside/1996/0209/Smiley.html   (83 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Bill Mauldin
In 1945, he won his first Pulitzer Prize for newspaper cartooning, and published his first book — Up Front, which reprinted dozens of Willie & Joe cartoons, accompanied by Mauldin's comments on the real-life situation his fictional characters were in.
He won a second Pulitzer in 1959, so it was almost an anticlimax when, two years later, he took home The National Cartoonists' Society's Reuben Award, as Cartoonist of the Year.
By the time he retired, in 1992, his cartoons were being syndicated to about 250 papers.
www.toonopedia.com /mauldin.htm   (523 words)

  
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Pulitzer Prize recipient Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr.
He has published several books on the Civil War, including his 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties.
The lecture is free and the public is invited.
www.lycoming.edu /whatsnew/releases/markNeely.htm   (240 words)

  
 PSA and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: A Brief History
In 1917, the first year the Pulitzer prizes were awarded, there were four categories: Novel, Drama, History, and Journalism.
Edward J. Wheeler, then president of the PSA, noted the absence of a prize for poetry and wrote to Nicholas Butler, the president of Columbia (through which university the prizes were awarded) to inquire about the cause.
The Pulitzer family, rather than relinquish the award, endowed an annual one thousand dollar prize for poetry, thereby establishing the Pulitzer award for poetry as we know it today.
www.poetrysociety.org /journal/articles/pulitzer.html   (465 words)

  
 2002 Pulitzer Prizes - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, Biography
Horwitz also was on the team of reporters who wrote a series about guns and violence in the District of Columbia that was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize.
At the Herald he worked on a year-long police corruption investigation and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a magazine article he co-authored with April Witt that explored the lives of seven teenagers who murdered one of their friends.
He also served on a six-reporter team assigned to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew and belonged to another team that was cited as a Pulitzer finalist for its reporting on a legal battle fought by parents of a child born without a brain.
www.pulitzer.org /year/2002/investigative-reporting/bio   (481 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Following on from there, The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil.
"The Prize" traces the history of oil from its humble, entrepreneurial beginnings in the hillsides of western Pennsylvania, to the shrewd domination of the industry by John D. Rockefeller, to the breakup of Standard Oil, and through the discovery of oil in the farthest flung corners of the globe.
Part of Yergin's history is something of a tragedy: the gradual seizure of oil from the voyagers who discovered it by national governments who were able to use their seizures to threaten the West during the 1973 oil shock and beyond.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671799320?v=glance   (1876 words)

  
 20 April 1998 Page One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The award is the first Pulitzer to be received by a UGA faculty member.
He was a 1992 recipient of the Richard B. Russell Award for Undergraduate Teaching at the university.
Larson could not be reached when the Pulitzer Board made its announcement the afternoon of April 14.
www.uga.edu /columns/042098/pgone1.html   (335 words)

  
 Communication: Alumni : Pulitzer Prize Winners
The University of Texas College of Communication includes among its former students 20 winners of Pulitzer Prizes.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded by Columbia University in New York City, for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters and music.
The prizes were originally endowed by newspaper magnate, Joseph Pulitzer, and have been awarded since 1917.
communication.utexas.edu /alumni/pulitzer/index.html   (73 words)

  
 Salon.com News | The Wall Street Journal's smear campaign
But their latest target is a rival paper that is competing for a Pulitzer Prize.
This year is no exception; among the reported Pulitzer finalists in the investigative reporting category is "Uninformed Consent," a six-part series that ran in the Seattle Times during March 2001.
But what she didn't reveal was that she and her husband created the Laura Landro Salomon Endowment Fund for the Transplantation Biology Program at the medical center, that they have continued to make generous donations to the center and that proceeds from her book go to the Hutch.
www.salon.com /news/feature/2002/04/06/pulitzers/index.html   (738 words)

  
 LincolnLectureSeriesPressRelease   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Summers is the author of numerous books, including The Era of Good Stealings (Oxford University Press, 1992) and The Plundering Generation: Corruption and the Crisis of the Union, 1848-1861 (Oxford University Press, 1987).
A member of the history faculty at UK since 1989, he teaches such topics as the Civil War and Reconstruction, 19th century American history, and the history of political cartoons.
He is the winner of the Barondess Lincoln award and the Lincoln Prize and is the author of four books dealing with Constitutional history, and 19th century U.S. social, intellectual, and political history.
cspl.uis.edu /AboutTheCenter/Common/News/LincolnLectureSeriesPressRelease.htm   (545 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.
Audio Cassette This is excellent and very deserving of the Pulitzer.
A special Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Dr.
www.bookawards.bizland.com /pulitzer_prize.htm   (608 words)

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