In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖) for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy who went off to World War Ⅰ. Her novel, A Lost Lady, was made into a silent movie in 1925. Other well.known Cather's novels include My Antonia, O Pioneers!, Death Comes...
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Houston also ventured into acting, with her role in The Bodyguard (1992) earning her acclaim. The film's original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy for Album of the Year, with its lead single I Will Always Love You, becoming one of the best-selling singles in music history. However, ...
The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri, including papers charting Lahiri’s rise in the literary world from her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection The I Imaginary Books, Mary Shelley in Bath, and Tales of the Weird: January Books Roundup January 21, 20...
Garrow won the Pulitzer Prize for the first book in this three-part series delving deep into the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Beginning with King’s roots as a young pastor who organized the Montgomery bus boycott, Garrow traces King’s rise to the political spotlight as a ...
Just months after his book, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the Pulitzer Prize and planted itself for a long run on the best-seller list, it emerged that Ellis, who spent the Vietnam War years doing graduate work at Yale and teaching history at West Point, had been ...
He and Gene Roberts won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History for the book The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. Birthplace: Florence, Alabama 49 Hank Severeid 05/31/1891 0 Henry Levai Severeid (June 1, 1891 – December 17, 1968) was a...
She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection of poems titled The Wild Iris, in which “she describes the extraordinary return of life after winter in the poem Snowdrops,” the Nobel literature committee said Thursday. She also won the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry for ...
13 – Cormac McCarthy (89): American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Road” – age 89. 13 – Larry Meyers Jr. (49): Reality TV Star – Known for his appearance on “My 600-Lb. Life” and for singing the ...
In 1952, his last novel,The Old Man and the Seawas publishedand it made Hemingway famous and gained him the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. Because of bad health and illness of the mind, Hemingway killed himself in July, 1961. The influence of his ...