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These experiences formed the basis of his 1948 novel Guard of Honor, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize. [14] His 1957 novel By Love Possessed became a surprise success, with 34 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, rating #1 on September 22, 1957, three weeks after its release. [4] It was also the top-selling novel of 1957. [4]
James Rufus Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ iː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time , he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States.
James Reston of The New York Times, for his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
The novel was adapted into All the Way Home by Tad Mosel.The play won a 1961 Pulitzer Prize.. A film entitled All The Way Home (1963), adapted by Philip H. Reisman, Jr. from the Agee novel and the Mosel play, was filmed in the same Knoxville neighborhood where Agee grew up.
The TheaterMania reviewer wrote, "The achingly moving play is Tad Mosel's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of James Agee's autobiographical 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'A Death in the Family', and in reviving the piece, director Jack Cummings III confirms that both prizes are deserved." [2]
The Pulitzer Prize Board generally selects the Pulitzer Prize Winners from the three nominated finalists in each category. The names of nominated finalists have been announced only since 1980. 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 playwright James Ijames is no stranger to audacious choices. His adaptation of “Hamlet,” “Fat Ham,” sets the story at a backyard barbecue thrown by a Black family in the South — and ...
Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1917–1979 [3] Year Author Title Ref. 1917: Jean Jules Jusserand: With Americans of Past and Present Days: 1918: James Ford Rhodes: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 [4] 1919 No award presented 1920: Justin H. Smith: The War with Mexico [4] 1921: William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick: The Victory at ...