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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1958. Journalism awards "The ... A Death in the Family by James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky).
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 ...
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]
October 23 – Announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Boris Pasternak leads to denunciation of him in the Soviet Union and threats to expel him. October 28 – Samuel Beckett's monologue Krapp's Last Tape is first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre, London.
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Sacramento Bee reporter Denny Walsh in November 1985. Walsh, whose storied reporting career included stops at the New York Times and Life magazine before coming to The Bee ...
Some say the "P" refers to the Peabody Award, [41] others say it is the Pulitzer Prize. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] As of 2024 [update] , Mike Nichols , Rita Moreno , Barbra Streisand , and Mel Brooks have achieved this status by winning the Peabody; [ 45 ] while Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch have achieved it by winning the Pulitzer.
George Oppen (April 24, 1908 – July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico in 1950 to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee.