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As defined in the original Plan of Award, the prize was given "Annually, for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood," although there was some struggle over whether the word wholesome should be used instead of whole, the word Pulitzer had written in his will. [3]
A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels.
The Netanyahus won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [7] The Pulitzer citation for the novel described it as "A mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as its tightly-wound plot." [8] It also won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for ...
Breathing Lessons won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989 [4] and was a finalist for the 1988 National Book Award. [5] It was also Time 's Book of the Year. [ 6 ]
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year after its publication, and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. [2] [3] A survey of writers and literary critics compiled by The New York Times ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006. [4] It was adapted as a 1998 movie of the same name, starring Oprah Winfrey.
The other Pulitzer Prize, ... on Monday for a series urging the restoration of Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley,” Sam Stanton wrote in a front-page story published in The Bee on April 5, 2005 ...
1940: Otto D. Tolischus, in Correspondence, for articles from Berlin explaining the economic and ideological background of war-engaged Nazi Germany. [16]1941: The New York Times with a special citation for the "public educational value" of its foreign news reporting, "exemplified," according to the Pulitzer Board, "by its scope, by excellence of writing and presentation and supplementary ...
Jeannine A. Cook, (left) owner of Ida's Bookshop in Collingswood, sits on stage with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood on July 9.