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  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize   (1174 words)

  
 Ellis Wins Pulitzer Prize for History
The Pulitzer Prize is one of this country's most prestigious awards and sought-after accolades in journalism, letters, and music.
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 twenty-one and introduced poetry, music, and photography as subjects, while adhering to the spirit of Pulitzer’s will and its intent.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/042001/ellis.shtml   (1005 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)

  
 Department of History | HISTORY
Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University, New York City, for public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917.
The prizes have varied in number and category over the years but currently number 14 prizes in the field of journalism, six prizes in letters, and one prize in music.
www.wm.edu /history/index.php?fetchid=2479&login=show   (508 words)

  
 BBC News | ARTS | Wonder Boys author wins Pulitzer
The winners of the 2001 prizes were chosen from 1,390 entries in journalism, 780 books, 112 submissions for music and a number of plays both in New York and in regional theatres.
The drama prize went to David Auburn for his play Proof, the saga of a young woman haunted by the mental collapse of her father.
In the journalism awards there were prizes for the news coverage and photography of the dawn raid by federal agents who took Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez for the Miami Herald and Associated Press respectively.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1281305.stm   (588 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
(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.
(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.
(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)

  
 - toledoblade.com -
Three Blade reporters won the Pulitzer Prize - journalism's highest honor - yesterday for uncovering the atrocities of an elite U.S. Army fighting unit in the Vietnam War that killed unarmed civilians and children during a seven-month rampage.
In 2000, former Blade reporter Sam Roe was nominated as a Pulitzer finalist for investigative reporting for his Blade series detailing a pattern of misconduct by the government and the beryllium industry, which resulted in deaths and injuries to dozens of workers.
The Post-Gazette won a Pulitzer for reporting in 1938 for a series of articles by Raymond Sprigle exposing the one-time membership of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan.
www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040406/SRTIGERFORCE/40406017   (1227 words)

  
 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
The 85th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced by President George Rupp of Columbia University.
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded at a luncheon in late May, about a month after the names of the winners have been announced.
The Public Service prize is always awarded to a newspaper, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation.
www.writenews.com /2001/041801_pulitzer_2001.htm   (317 words)

  
 Boston.com / Latest News / Nation
She was a Pulitzer finalist in criticism in 1993, 1996, and 1999.
Associated Press photographer Alan Diaz won the prize for spot news photography for his photo, part of the same coverage, of an officer with a gun confronting a man hiding the boy in a closet.
The Pulitzer Prizes, given annually by Columbia University, include a $7,500 award, except for public service award, which is a gold medal.
www.boston.com /news/daily/16/pulitzer.htm   (1180 words)

  
 Stephen Dunn 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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)

  
 Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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.
The prize for music went to "On the Transmigration of Souls" by John Adams.
A tribute to victims, survivors and heroes of September 11, "On the Transmigration of Souls" was premiered by the New York Philharmonic on September 19, 2002.
www.literature-awards.com /pulitzer_prize.htm   (410 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize winner to discuss role of artist after 9/11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pulitzer Prize winner to discuss role of artist after 9/11
Stephen Dunn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a visiting distinguished professor at West Virginia University, is scheduled to present "Something Like the Truth: The Artist After 9/11" Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m.
In addition to receiving the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, Dunn has garnered numerous awards and honors for his writing.
www.nis.wvu.edu /2002_Releases/dunnagain.htm   (456 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize: Biography - April 23, 2001
In an encore presentation of a January interview, Gwen Ifill talks with David Levering Lewis who recently won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for the second volume in his biography of W.E.B. DuBois.
He has now won the Pulitzer Prize for the second volume of his biography of W.E.B. Dubois.
GWEN IFILL: You won the Pulitzer Prize, as I mentioned, for the first half of this massive biography.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/jan-june01/davelevlew_04-23.html   (1318 words)

  
 OPA News Release, 04/2001 Former UT Austin student receives Pulitzer Prize
AUSTIN, Texas—Gail Caldwell, a former American studies student at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for her writings at The Boston Globe.
Caldwell is a nominator for the Irish Times Fiction Prize and has served several times on the fiction jury for the Pulitzer Prize.
She has been a finalist in criticism for both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award.
utexas.edu /opa/news/01newsreleases/nr_200104/nr_pulitzer010425.html   (198 words)

  
 CNN.com - Entertainment - Chabon wins Pulitzer for 'Kavalier & Clay' - April 16, 2001
It is the first Pulitzer for Chabon, whose book brings to life World War II America and the golden age of comic books.
His prize marked the first time that the second volume of a previous Pulitzer winner also won the award.
The Pulitzer for drama went to David Auburn for his play "Proof," a family drama about a young woman haunted by the mental collapse of her father.
edition.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/04/16/pulitzer.prize   (590 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Extra
The articles that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.
Rabinowitz is known to OpinionJournal readers for her "Media Log," as well as her longer features drawn from the pages of the Journal.
Pulitzer Prize administrator Seymour Topping told the Associated Press yesterday that the Pulitzer board, which makes the final decisions, reviewed the jury's original three finalists and decided it wanted "a broader choice." The jury offered Ms.
opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=90000451   (347 words)

  
 Arts&Cultural Council for Greater Rochester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rochester, NY- America's highest honor in letters went to BOA Editions author Stephen Dunn when he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for 2001.
Walking Light, which is BOA Editions' premiere spring 2001 release, is a collection of essays on poetics, in addition to poignant reminiscences of his childhood and teen years in New York City, his gambling father, running with gangs, and other experiences that have influenced the character and art of this critically acclaimed American Poet.
Rochester based BOA Editions, Ltd. is an independent, not-for-profit, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award- winning publishing house that has received national acclaim for it's work.
www.artsrochester.org /news/pr0105BOA.htm   (326 words)

  
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 UNCW News - Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Cay Johnston speaks at UNCW
David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, will be speaking on the campus of University of North Carolina Wilmington to the Master of Science in Accountancy students at 11 a.m.
Johnston won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting and has been a Pulitzer finalist three other times since 2000.
Johnston will speak about President Bush’s proposed tax changes to the federal income tax and social security and how tax shelters are used by the wealthy and corporations.
appserv02.uncw.edu /news/article.asp?ID=1497   (157 words)

  
 NewMusicbox
John Corigliano has won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Symphony No. 2.
Commissioned by the Boston Symphony to commemorate the centenary of Symphony Hall, the work is an expansion of the string quartet the composer wrote for the farewell tour of the Cleveland Quartet, in 1996.
The other finalists for the prize in music were Tituli by Stephen Hartke, premiered on Jan. 15, 2001, at Alfred Newman Recital Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and Time After Time by Fred Lerdahl, premiered on Dec. 12, 2000, at Merkin Hall in New York City.
www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=1251   (215 words)

  
 PopImage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
NEW YORK- Each year the Pulitzer Prize is awarded in over twenty categories ranging from journalism to poetry to music.
The Pulitzer Prize for novels is awarded to "distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." This year’s recipient was The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.
It was; until yesterday afternoon, when Pulitzer Prize judges, taking a cue from the World Fantasy Awards, revoked the honor.
www.popimage.com /industrial/061201ftw011.html   (1313 words)

  
 Inside Binghamton University
In his book, Bix rejects the accepted portrait of the emperor as a hapless pawn of the Japanese military during the 1930s and 40s and argues that the emperor sanctioned atrocities in China, approved an alliance with Hitler and Mussolini, and prepared Japan for the war in the Pacific.
Bix’s research using documents released after the emperor’s death in 1989 was partly shared with John W. Dower, who won the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction last year for his study of Japan after its defeat.
Bix is the second Binghamton faculty member to receive a Pulitzer Prize.
www.binghamton.edu /inside/March-April/19apr01/bix.html   (519 words)

  
 classical music - andante - 2004 pulitzer prize for music goes to paul moravec for tempest fantasy
The $10,000 award, given for a "distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year," is administered by the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York City and was announced there on Monday (5 April).
Among his previous awards and honors are the Rome Prize; fellowships from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, the Camargo Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; and a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The music jurors select the finalists; the actual prizewinner is chosen by the same Pulitzer Prize Board that selects the recipients of the journalism and letters awards.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=23534&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords=   (530 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Two Columbia Alumni have Won 2001 Pulitzer Prizes
David Levering Lewis (GSAS, '59) captured the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his work, W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (Henry Holt and Company), the second of two volumes on DuBois, while John Corigliano (CC, '59) won in the Music category for his Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra.
Available records indicate that this is the first time an author has won Pulitzers for two volumes of a multi-volume set.
He also won an Academy Award in 2000 for his film score for "The Red Violin," becoming only the second classical composer, after Aaron Copland, to receive the honor.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/01/04/pulizter2001_brief.html   (187 words)

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