The Killer Angels is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book tells the story of the four days of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War: June 30, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Co...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the historical significance of this year's presidential election. She discusses the parallels between the 2020 election and 1932's election, what kind of change pivotal elections can bring and the importance of...
Best Sellers and Pulitzer Prize Winners: Core or Not? The debate over quality versus demand in public libraries has been argued for some time, largely without resolution. In 1981 Nora Rawlinson wrote, "A book of outstanding quality is not worth its price if no one will read it." The view...
I've read 15 Pulitzer Prize winners (even the old ones, "So Big" "Alice Adams" for example) and am avidly collecting them all. I happen to be reading "The Women" by TC Boyle; a story about Frank Lloyd Wright and his dramatic love life and architecture. Published in 2009, it just ...
RE Fleming - 《Mfs Modern Fiction Studies》 被引量: 5发表: 1985年 Complete biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners 1917-2000 : journalists, writers and composers on their ways to the Coveted Awards From this post he went to the Washington law firm of Covington, Burling and Rublee,...
They also attract a considerable amount of debate particularly concerning the worthiness of winners. So do we actually need them and what do they really achieve? Regular followers of this blog will know that I read quite a lot of books which are nominated for the Booker Prize and other ...
The winners of the public service award receive gold medals. The other awards carry a $10,000 prize. The full list of winners and finalists is below. __ JOURNALISM - Public Service: The Guardian US and The Washington Post for the revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National ...
: is an impressive array of what world-class minds (including Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, New York Times bestselling authors, and Harvard ... Brockman,John - What are you optimistic about? : 被引量: 6发表: 0年 A Review of Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction,...
prize Monday to Kendrick Lamar for his rap album "DAMN.," a sharp departure from the classical and jazz works the body have consistently favored. The decision, which drew praise and surprise online, quickly overshadowed other arts winners, including Andrew Sean Greer's win in the fiction ...
Kendrick’s lyrics – especially their focus on the historical persistence of premature death in Black life – are arguably as potent a source of cultural criticism and journalistic description as any of this year’s other Pulitzer winners. And the award, arriving just months aft...