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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 ...
His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter.
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]
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was ghostwritten for him" and that his speechwriter Ted Sorensen was the book's actual author, though his claim later was retracted by ...
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
James Albert Michener (/ ˈ m ɪ tʃ ə n ər / or / ˈ m ɪ tʃ n ər /; [2] February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history.
As one biographer has written, the book was "written in purple prose but a royal purple, which read like historical fiction." [1] Hailed enthusiastically by critics, the book was a bestseller as both Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club selections. [1] Mattingly also won a special Pulitzer Prize for the work. [8]
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.