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"The Thinker", the prize-winning editorial cartoon Faith and Confidence, the prize-winning photograph. Public Service: The Arkansas Gazette, for demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage in the face of great public tension during the school integration crisis of 1957. The newspaper's ...
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]
American poet Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize four times from 1924 to 1943. William Allen White received the Pulitzer Prize twice but in two different categories: Journalism in 1923 for an editorial writing and posthumously in 1947 in the category Books, Drama, and Music for his autobiography.
During his lifetime, Agee enjoyed only modest public recognition. Since his death, his literary reputation has grown. In 1957, his novel A Death in the Family (based on the events surrounding his father's death) was published posthumously and in 1958 won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 2007, Michael Lofaro published a restored edition of the ...
Journalist Drew Pearson claimed on an episode of The Mike Wallace Interview which aired in December 1957 [37] that "John F. Kennedy is the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that was ghostwritten for him" and that his speechwriter Ted Sorensen was the book's actual author, though his claim later was retracted by ...
The Pulitzer Prize jury has the option of awarding special citations and awards where they consider necessary.. Prizes for the award vary. The Pulitzer Prize Board has stated that the Special Citations given to George Gershwin, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Duke Ellington were in response to criticism for the failure of the Board to cite the four.
The Town was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1951. [1] In a review of the last novel, Louis Bromfield , also an Ohio writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, wrote of the trilogy: the three books are not only concerned with Sayward and her family but the growth and the astonishingly rapid development of a whole area which has played a key role in ...
Newdigate prize: Jon Stallworthy; Nobel Prize in Literature: Boris Pasternak; Premio Nadal: J. Vidal Cadellans, No era de los nuestros; Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Agee, A Death In The Family; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems 1954-1956