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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]
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 ...
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.
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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was ghostwritten for him" and that his speechwriter Ted Sorensen was the book's actual author, though his claim later was retracted by ...
Gardner Dozois — Book of Magic (editor), City Under the Stars (with Michael Swanwick) Alexandre Dumas — The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (with Claude Schopp) G.B. Edwards — The Book of Ebenezer Le Page; E. R. Eddison — The Mezentian Gate; Harlan Ellison — Blood’s a Rover; Ralph Ellison — Juneteenth, Three Days Before the Shooting...
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