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 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (788 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography - For a distinguished example of breaking news photography in fl and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing - For distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction.
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting - For a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear presentation.
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 Pulitzer Prize [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Pulitzer Prize is a United StatesThe United States of America, also referred to as the United States, U.S.A., U.S., US, America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia, is a federal republic of fifty states, mostly in central North America.
The prize was established by Joseph PulitzerJoseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847–October 29, 1911), born in Makó, Hungary, immigrated to the United States and became an American newspaper man and journalist.
Editorial WritingThe Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction.
www.wikimirror.com /Pulitzer_Prize   (3756 words)

  
 newStandard: 4/10/96
Prizes include an award of $3,000, except for the public service award, which is a gold medal.
The Pulitzer for fiction was awarded to Richard Ford for "Independence Day," a sequel to his acclaimed 1986 novel, "The Sportswriter." It follows the life of Frank Bascombe, a writer turned real estate agent, in the 1980s.
George Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his composition "Lilacs." He became the first fl composer to win since the music prize was first awarded in 1943.
www.s-t.com /daily/04-96/04-10-96/9hogs.htm   (477 words)

  
 Libraries of Recommended Reading for High School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 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)

  
 Oklahoma City bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Until the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing was the worst act of terrorism within U.S. borders, but not the worst against the United States (the worst act of terrorism against the U.S. before 9/11 was Pan Am Flight 103).
A photograph of firefighter Chris Fields removing infant Baylee Almon (who later died in a nearby hospital) from the rubble was reprinted worldwide and soon became a symbol of the tragedy.
In addition to the children with a direct connection to the bombing, others became distressed after hearing media reports and later research established that many showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing   (1858 words)

  
 President's Report, May 1996
History professor Alan Taylor of UC Davis won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in history for his 1995 book, "William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic." The prestigious $3,000 prizes are presented annually by Columbia University.
The $500,000 prize is given annually in honor of American invention and innovation.
Richard Hamilton, UC San Diego professor of mathematics, was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, one of the most prestigious prizes of the American Mathematical Society.
www.ucop.edu /pres/reports/prmay96.html   (3041 words)

  
 A Conversation with Alan Taylor - The Early America Review - Fall 1997
In 1996, Alan Taylor's William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (New York: Knopf, 1995) won both the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Bancroft Prize.
It's quite striking what the difference a prize or a couple of prizes--especially the Pulitzer--will do to people's perception of who you are and what your capabilities are.
I don't think I'm any better or smarter a historian than I was the day before the Pulitzer, but it just puts you on a lot of other people's radar screens, puts a certain certification on you that you didn't have before.
earlyamerica.com /review/fall97/taylor.html   (3446 words)

  
 Living Composers Catalog Research Pages: Year Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pulitzer Prize for Music: William Schuman for Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song for full chorus of mixed voices, with accompaniment of orchestra - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music
Pulitzer Prize for Music: John La Montaine for Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op.
Pulitzer Prize for Music: Samuel Barber for Piano Concerto No. 1, Op.
baggaleymusic.com /research/YearIndex.html   (1898 words)

  
 OAM-George Walker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pulitzer Prize for Music Goes to George Walker '41, '85 hon.
When the caller notified alumnus George Walker that he had won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition Lilacs, the first African-American to receive the honor in its 80-year history says he could hardly believe the news.
He is preparing for a new CD of the piano repertory of Chopin, Bach, and others, to be released in the fall, and readying himself for a guest performance with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in early 1997.
www.oberlin.edu /alummag/oampast/oam_sum96/oamsum96_walker.html   (560 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Pulitzer Prizes were named for and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer, the famous newspaper publisher.
Awards have been given annually since 1917 by Columbia University, on the recommendation of a Pulitzer Prize board for achievement in a variety of categories.
The literature prize categories are: fiction, history, biography (or autobiography), poetry, and general nonfiction.
www.startide.net /lit/pulitzer.html   (205 words)

  
 The Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917.
Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the award honors books which address those themes in life which address the passion and tragedy of the human condition.
The prize for poetry is for an original volume of verse by an American author receives $7,500.
www.literacyrules.com /prize.html   (309 words)

  
 BookWeb: Bookselling This Week Archives: 1996 Pulitzer Prizes Announced   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Richard Ford's Independence Day captured the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Tina Rosenberg's The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism nabbed the Prize for general nonfiction as Columbia University announced the winners of the 1996 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama last week.
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was given to Jorie Graham's The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, published by The Ecco Press.
Lee receives a $7,500 prize for his book, which follows a Korean-American family as it is caught in a web of political espionage and racial tension.
www.bookweb.org /news/btw/archive/897.html   (510 words)

  
 Borzoi Reader | Authors | Rick Bragg
Rick Bragg, author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling All Over but the Shoutin' and a Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for the New York Times, says he learned to tell stories by listening to the masters, the people of the foothills of the Appalachians.
They talked, of the sadness, poverty, cruelty, kindness, hope, hopelessness, faith, anger and joy of their everyday lives, and painted pictures on the very haze of the early evening, when work faded into story-telling.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother’s childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.
www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/bragg   (820 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Wynton Marsalis -- Pulitzer Prize in Music - April 9, 1997
An interview with George Walker, the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for music.
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT: It was a Pulitzer first--jazz in the category usually reserved for classical music, and the winner was 35-year-old trumpeter Wynton Marsalis for Blood on the Fields, a three-hour jazz oratorio written for three singers and an assemble of 14 musicians.
The piece was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center and traces the journey of an African couple sold into slavery in the United States.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/april97/marsalis_4-9.html   (1548 words)

  
 Rent (musical) - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Rent is a Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, based upon Puccini's opera La bohème.
Rent opened in New York City on April 29, 1996 at the Nederlander Theatre and continues to play on Broadway (the 8th-longest running Broadway musical as of May 3, 2005).
The musical was conceived by Jonathan Larson, a 35-year-old composer who died from an undiagnosed dissecting aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, just a few hours before the musical made its debut at the New York Theatre Workshop.
www.grohol.com /wiki/Rent_(musical)   (701 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize
In writing his 1904 will, which made provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes as an incentive to excellence, Joseph Pulitzer specified solely four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one for education, and four traveling scholarships.
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.
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.oberlin.edu /staff/jsluk/pulitzer.htm   (616 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 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.
politicalgraveyard.com /special/pulitzer-prize.html   (1022 words)

  
 Pulitzer Winners Highlight Humanities Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The fall Lowell Lecture Humanities Series will feature appearances by Pulitzer Prize winners in poetry, fiction and biography, a popular novelist whose writing explores immigration themes and a journalist regarded as one of the anti-globalization movement's foremost advocates.
The 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, Stephen Dunn, will read from his work on Thursday, Nov. 8.
On Thursday, Nov. 15, Jack Miles, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for God: A Biography, will offer a selection of his writing.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v10/s7/humanities.html   (372 words)

  
 BGSU ::Offices::Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist visits Sept. 30
BOWLING GREEN, O.– Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, will talk about the joys and challenges of storytelling, writing and reporting on Sept. 30 at Bowling Green State University.
He is nationally recognized for his stories about growing up in the South and for his journalistic work about people who might otherwise be overlooked.
A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, he is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
www.bgsu.edu /offices/pr/news/2003/news2482.html   (451 words)

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