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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 ...
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 ...
Hall's most famous novel, Warlock was a finalist for the 1958 Pulitzer Prize and has since been hailed as a classic of American West literature. [4] Michelle Latiolais, a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, described Warlock as belonging to the "pantheon of western masterpieces" alongside Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and John Williams's Butcher's Crossing.
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]
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
Of his works from the 1930s to 1980s, Walworth wrote two books on Woodrow Wilson. As part of a 1958 two volume biography on Wilson, Walworth received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1959 with Woodrow Wilson: American Prophet. His other book on Wilson was Wilson and his Peacemakers in 1986.
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 ...
Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ ˈ r ɛ t k i / RET-kee; [1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind, [2] and posthumously in ...