Pulitzer Prize

A male pseudohermaphrodite is the central subject of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. 

Before it became known that Profiles in Courage was largely done by a ghostwriter, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Perhaps President Kennedy was the first person to win a Pulitzer Prize for a book written by someone else. Of course, we shouldn t be too harsh on President Kennedy, because even critics agree that he assisted with many choices, messages, and the overall tone of the book. 

John McPhee won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for his book Annals of the Former World. which is about, among other things. North American geology. 

Bruce Catton, an authority on the Civil War, won both the Pulitzer Prize for historical work and the National Book Award in 1955. He wrote numerous books, including Mr. Lincoln s Army (1951), A Stillness at Appomattox (1953), Never Call Retreat (1966), and Gettysburg The Final Fury (1974). This essay is a chapter of The American Story (1956), a collection of essays by noted historians. 

A poet, essayist, novelist, editor, and teacher, Alice Walker is best known for her novel The Color Purple, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1982. Some of her other works include The Temple of My Familiar (1989), Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1997), By the Light of My Father s Smile (1998), and The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000). The following selection comes from her 1983 collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. 

Gwendolyn Brooks was an American poet and teacher who won a Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen in 1949. She was the author of many books of poetry, including A Street in Bronzeville (1945), The Bean Eaters (1960), Riot (1969), and Beckonings (1975). She also wrote two autobiographical collections, a novel, and several books for children. This poem is from Selected Poems (1959). 

EDWARD HUMES is the author of eight critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including the bestseller Mississippi Mud and, most recently, Monkey Girl. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for his journalism and is a writer-at-large for Los Angeles magazine. He lives in California. 

He had read an article written by Jon Franklin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from The Baltimore Sun, which said Johns Hopkins scientists say they will install a scanner... 

The tension in the film comes from the fact that Baraka represents the new Black Arts Movement, and Brooks—a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who publishes with a large, mainstream publisher—represents the "establishment." The interaction of the two will help to spark Brooks s transformation, which is the focus of the story. 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award... 

See the excellent compilation by Brian Cronin, "A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons," available at http //goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/category /month-of-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoons/. Day 4, Day 10, Day 19 (accessed November 11, 2009). 

Cronin, Brian. "A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons. Available at http //www. goodcomics.comicbookresources.com. 

Late in October 1946 Truman selected William W. Waymack and Robert F. Bacher to round out the first Commission. Pulitzer Prize winner Way-mack was the editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Bacher was the only scientist on the Commission. A highly respected physicist, he also had the strong endorsement of Bush. Bacher had worked at Los Alamos during the war years and had recently returned to his academic post at Cornell University. 

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