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The Pulitzer Prize
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There are six categories in letters and drama:
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service There are 13 categories in journalism
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Determining which authors and other artists are candidates for detailed treatment on the Spirit of America Bookstore website is subjective,
at best. Aside from the Proprietor's taste in literature, one good way to locate worthy subject matter is to glean names from major awards,
such as these Pulitzer Prizes. Note that the choices here are selective and not comprehensive, and will be expanded further as time permits.
— G.E. Nordell, proprietor of this online bookstore
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The Pulitzer Prizes [est. 1917] official website
Pulitzer Prizes entry at Wikipedia
Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911] entry at Wikipedia
short history video [8:37] at Vimeo
browse books by recent Pulitzer Prize winners at Amazon
search for books on keywords 'pulitzer+prize+winners' {returns 570+ titles} at Amazon
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
(given as 'Pulitzer Prize for The Novel' until 1947)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction entry at Wikipedia
William Faulkner [1897-1962]: two awards, for "A Fable" [1955] and "The Reivers" [1963]
Booth Tarkington [1869-1946]: two awards, for "The Magnificent Ambersons" [1919] and "Alice Adams" [1922]
John Updike [1932-2009]: two awards, for "Rabbit Is Rich" [1982] and "Rabbit At Rest" 1991]
Colson Whitehead: two awards, for "The Underground Railroad" [2017] and "The Nickel Boys" [2020]
Special Pulitzer Awards were given in 1957 to Kenneth Roberts, in 1977 to Alex Haley for "Roots", and in 2007 to Ray Bradbury.
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1917: Award not given
1918: "His Family" by Ernest Poole [1880-1950]
1919: "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington [1869-1949]
1920: Award not given
1921: "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
1922: "Alice Adams " by Booth Tarkington [1869-1949]
1923: "One of Ours" by Willa Cather [1873-1947]
1925: "So Big" by Edna Ferber
1926: "Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951] (declined the award)
1927: "Early Autumn" by Louis Bromfield [1896-1956]
1928: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder (plus two awards for Drama)
1930: "Laughing Boy" by Oliver La Farge [1901-63]
1932: "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
| 1937: |  | "Gone With The Wind" [Scribner Sept 1936] by Margaret Mitchell [1900-49] listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Warner Books mass pb [8/93] for $7.99 Warner Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/99] for $10.85 Scribner 8½x6 hardcover [facsimile] for $17.82 Margaret Mitchell [1900-49] section on the "G.W.T.W." Page see also Magic Lantern's "Gone With The Wind" 1939 Movie Page |
1938: "The Late George Apley" by John Phillips Marquand
1939: "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1942: "In This Our Life" by Ellen Glasgow [1873-1945]
| 1943: |  | "Dragon's Teeth" [1942 novel] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968]
Adventure novel starring American Lanny Budd against the background of the rise of Hitler & the Nazi Party in Germany, from the 1929 stock market crash to the 1934 'Blood Purge'. Buccaneer hardcover [6/92] for $12.89 "Dragon's Teeth - Part I" Simon Publns 9x6 pb [7/2001] for $29.95 "Dragon's Teeth - Part II" Simon Publns 9x6 pb [7/2001] for $29.95 |
1944: "Journey In The Dark" by Martin Flavin [1883-1967]
1945: "A Bell For Adano" by John Hersey
1946: Award not given
| 1947: |  | "All The King's Men" [1946 novel] by Robert Penn Warren author also won two awards in Poetry; book listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Harvest 8x5½ pb [9/96] for $10.20 Harcourt 9¼x6¼ movie tie-in hardcover [11/2005] for $14.30 Recorded Books movie tie-in audio CD [10/2005] for $25.19 |
1948: "Tales of The South Pacific" by James A. Michener [1907-97]
1949: "Guard of Honor" by James Gould Cozzens
1950: "The Way West" by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951: "The Town" by Conrad Richter
1952: "The Caine Mutiny" [1951 novel] by Herman Wouk [1915-2019]
1953 stageplay "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" Broadway credits at IBDb
June 1954 feature film "The Caine Mutiny" /tt0046816/ starring Humphrey Bogart
1953: "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
1956: "Andersonville" by MacKinlay Kantor
1957 Special Pulitzer Award: Kenneth Roberts, for his historical novels which have long contributed to
the creation of greater interest in our early American history
1958: "A Death In The Family" by James Agee
1959: "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" by Robert Lewis Taylor
| 1960: |  | "Advise & Consent: A Novel of Washington Politics" [1959] by Allen Drury [1918-98] Avon pb [6/81] out of print/used Doubleday hardcover [1959] out of print/used sequel novel "A Shade of Difference" |
"To Kill A Mockingbird" [1960 bestseller novel]more details (synopsis, history, author, movies, other media) are on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "To Kill A Mockingbird" 1960 Novel & 1962 Movie Page
1966: "The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter"
1967: "The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud
1968: "The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron
1969: "House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday
1972: "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner
1973: "The Optimist's Daughter" by Eudora Welty
1976: "Humboldt's Gift" by Saul Bellow
1977 Special Pulitzer Award: Alex Haley [1921-92], for "Roots"
1979: "The Stories of John Cheever"
1980: "The Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer (plus 1969 award in Non-Fiction)
1981: "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole [1937-69]
1983: "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
1984: "Ironweed" by William Kennedy
1988: "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
1989: "Breathing Lessons" by Anne Tyler
1990: "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" by Oscar Hijuelos
| 1992 Special Award |  | "The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale" [1992]
Pantheon 9½x6¾ pb boxed set [10/93] for $17.64 Gardners Books pb [9/2003] out of print/used Pantheon 9½x6¾ hardcover [11/96] for $22.05 |
1994: "The Shipping News" by E. Annie Proulx
1996: "Independence Day" by Richard Ford
1998: "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth [1933-2018]
2000: "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001: "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon
| 2002: |  | "Empire Falls: A Novel" [2001] by Richard Russo The life/story of the manager of the Empire Grill diner in the fictional town of Empire Falls, Maine Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [11/2011] for $11.99 Vintage 8x5 pb [4/2002] for $10.20 Knopf 9½x6¼ deckle-edge hardcover [5/2001] for $35.00 book entry at Wikipedia |
| ::: |  | "Empire Falls" [H.B.O. May 2005] Three-hour 2-part mini-series co-exec-produced by Marc Platt; co-exec-produced & directed by Fred Schepisi; teleplay by Richard Russo, based on his Pulitzer-winning novel; starring Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman {also co-exec-producer}, Robin Wright, Aidan Quinn, Joanne Woodward, Dennis Farina, William Fichtner, Estelle Parsons, Theresa Russell, Kate Burton, Trevor Morgan & Danielle Panabaker; Paul Newman won Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor and S.A.G. Award for Best Actor, series nominated for D.G.A. Award & 9 other Emmys H.B.O. Home Video widescreen color DVD [9/2005] 2 disks for $9.99 H.B.O. Home Video widescreen color DVD [10/2012] for $12.99 full credits at IMDb • H.B.O. official movie site |
| 2007: |  | "The Road" [2006] by Cormac McCarthy A father & son journey toward the sea across the desolate landscape remaining after an unnamed cataclysm destroys civilization on Earth. Vintage movie tie-in mass pb [11/2008] for $7.99 Vintage 8x5 pb [3/2007] for $10.17 Knopf 9¾x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $16.47 book entry at Wikipedia |
2007 Special Pulitzer Citation to Ray Bradbury [1920-2012] for his distinguished, prolific, and
deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy
2008: "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz
| 2009: |  | "Olive Kitteridge: A Novel In Stories" [NY Times bestseller 2008] by Elizabeth Strout Thirteen stories, each with the central character of a retired schoolteacher living on the Maine coast. Kindle Edition from Random House [3/2008] for $7.99 Random House Trade 8x5 pb [9/2008] for $8.48 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2008] for $16.45 book entry at Wikipedia • author's official booksite |
| ::: |  | "Olive Kitteridge" [H.B.O. Nov 2014] 2-night mini-series directed by Lisa Cholodenko; adapted by Jane Anderson; starring Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, John Gallagher Jr., Zoe Kazan, Martha Wainwright, Ken Cheeseman, Devin Druid, Amanda Good Hennessey, John T. Mullen, Jesse Plemons & Mary Wright DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site watch official trailers at YouTube: trailer #1 [1:30] • trailer #2 [1:30] |
2010: "Tinkers" by Paul Harding
2011: "A Visit From The Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
2012: No award given
2013: "The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson
2014: "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt
2015: "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
2016: "The Sympathizer" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017: "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
2018: "Less: A Novel" [2017] by Andrew Sean Greer
a wonderfully written and hysterically funny story about a beleaguered man who spends a year traveling the world in order to avoid the wedding of his former partner.
2019: "The Overstory" [2018] by novelist Richard Powers
2020: "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead
2021: "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama
For a distinguished play by an American playwright, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama entry at Wikipedia
Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953]: four awards, for "Beyond The Horizon" 1920], "Anna Christie" [1922],
"Strange Interlude" [1928], and "Long Day's Journey Into Night" [1957]
Robert E. Sherwood [1896-1955]: four awards, for "Idiot's Delight" [1936], "Abe Lincoln In Illinois" [1939],
and "There Shall Be No Night" [1941], plus 1949 award for Biography
Edward Albee [1928-2016]: three awards, for "A Delicate Balance", 1967], "Seascape" [1975],
and "Three Tall Women" [1994]
Thornton Wilder [1897-1975]: three awards, for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" [1928 novel], and for
"Our Town" [1938] and "The Skin of Our Teeth" 1943]
 | Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings On Theater [2007] Edited by J.D. McClatchy Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $34.20 includes Pulitzer-winning "Our Town" [1938], Pulitzer-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" [1942], "The Matchmaker" [1954], "Shadow of A Doubt" [1942 screenplay], 18 other full-length plays, six one-act plays, 14 uncollected plays, and 14 essays on theater Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926–1948 [2009] Edited by J.D. McClatchy Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $23.10 includes "The Cabala" [1926], Pulitzer-winning novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" [1927], "The Woman of Andros" [1930], "Heaven’s My Destination" [1935], "The Ides of March" [1948], plus 6 stories & 4 essays |
August Wilson [1945-2005]: two awards, for "Fences" [1987], and "The Piano Lesson" [1990]
Tennessee Williams [1911-83]: two awards, for "A Streetcar Named Desire" [1948] and
"Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" [1955]
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1921: "Miss Lulu Bett" by Zona Gale
1929: "Street Scene" by Elmer Rice
1930: "The Green Pastures" by Marc Connelly
1932: "Of Thee I Sing" by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind & Ira Gershwin
1933: "Both Your Houses" by Maxwell Anderson
1934: "Men In White" by Sidney Kingsley
1935: "The Old Maid" adapted for the stage by Zoe Akins from the 1924 novella by Edith Wharton
| 1936: |  | "Idiot's Delight" Broadway stageplay [1936] by Robert E. Sherwood As war tensions build in Europe, an American song-and-dance troupe is stranded in a mountain resort, along with a German doctor, an English couple, a French pacifist, an Italian military officer, and a munitions manufacturer & his beautiful travelling companion. Starred Lunt & Fontanne on Broadway; ran for 300 performances between March & December 1936 credits at Internet Broadway Database • stageplay entry at Wikipedia Dramatists Play Service 7½x5 pb playscript [1936] for $8.00 Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover playscript [1936] out of print/many used |
| 1937: |  | "You Can't Take It With You" stageplay [1936] by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman The son of a wealthy, snobbish family plans to marry the lovely daughter of a free-spirited & loving family presided over by a wise grandfather. Dramatists Play Service 8x5½ pb playscript [1/98] for $7.50 credits for 2-year Broadway run [Dec 1936 - Dec 1938] at IBDb the beloved 1938 feature film by Frank Capra [1897-1991] won Oscars for Best Picture & Best Director |
1940: "The Time of Your Life" by William Saroyan [1908-81] who declined the award
1945: "Harvey" by Mary Coyle Chase
1946: "State of The Union" by Russel Crouse & Howard Lindsay
| 1949: |  | "Death of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller [1915-2005] Traveling salesman Willy Loman is in crisis as he nears retirement age. He is fired by his boss, his memory is failing, and life is slipping out of control. Willy and his two sons are haunted by the past, and by Willy's failure to be liked by everyone he meets. The play ends with a confrontation between Willy and his son Biff, by Willy's auto-accident suicide, and by Willy's poorly-attended funeral. Death of A Salesman was the first play to win all three major drama awards: the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. • stageplay entry at Wikipedia Broadway credits: 1949-50 + 1975 revival + 1984 revival A + 1984 revival B + 1999 revival playscript of "Death of A Salesman: Certain Private Conversations In Two Acts & A Requiem" [1949] Introduction by Christopher Bigsby Penguin Classics 7½x5 pb [5/98] for $5.87 Tandem Library 8x5 hardcover [10/99] for $21.65 |
| ::: |  | "Death of A Salesman" [C.B.S. TV movie May 1966] Directed by Alex Segal; starring Lee J. Cobb, Albert Dekker, Mildred Dunnock, James Farentino, June Foray, Bernie Kopell, George Segal, Karen Steele & Gene Wilder; won D.G.A. Award, won 3 Emmy Awards (plus noms for LJC & MD) Kultur Video color DVD [4/2002] for $19.99 Kultur Video color VHS [2/2002] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
1950: "South Pacific" by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II & Joshua Logan,
based on stories by James A. Michener [1907-97]
The musical stageplay "Guys and Dolls" by Abe Burrows & Jo Swerling (based on stories of Damon Runyon) was selected as winner of the
1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; however, because Burrows was under investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee (H.U.A.C.),
the Trustees of Columbia University vetoed the selection, and no Pulitzer for Drama was awarded that year.
1953: "Picnic" by William Inge
1954: "The Teahouse of The August Moon" by John Patrick
1956: "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich
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| 1958: |  | "Look Homeward Angel: A Comedy-Drama In Three Acts" stageplay [1957-59]
Based on the novel by Thomas Wolfe [1900-38]; ran for 564 Broadway performances, Nov 1957 to April 1959; nominated for six Tony Awards; "The novel stinks, but the play is a knockout." Adaptation by Ketti Frings [1909-81]; directed by George Roy Hill; cast included Hugh Griffith, Anthony Perkins, Jo Van Fleet, Arthur Hill, Frances Hyland, Joseph Bernard, Clifford Cothren, Mary Farrell • credits at IBDb • stageplay entry at Wikipedia Samuel French & Co. playscript pb [1958] out of print/used |
1959: "J.B." by Archibald MacLeish [1892-1982] (plus two awards for Poetry)
1960: "Fiorello!" by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick
1961: "All the Way Home" by Tad Mosel
1962: "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" by Frank Loesser & Abe Burrows
1965: "The Subject Was Roses" by Frank D. Gilroy
1969: "The Great White Hope" by Howard Sackler
1970: "No Place To Be Somebody" by Charles Gordone
1971: "The Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" by Paul Zindel
1973: "That Championship Season" by Jason Miller
1976: "A Chorus Line"
1977: "The Shadow Box" by Michael Cristofer
1978: "The Gin Game" by Donald L. Coburn
1979: "Buried Child" by Sam Shepard
1980: "Talley's Folly" by Lanford Wilson
1981: "Crimes of The Heart" by Beth Henley
1982: "A Soldier's Play" by Charles Fuller
1983: "'night, Mother" by Marsha Norman
1984: "Glengarry Glen Ross" by David Mamet
1985: "Sunday In The Park With George" by James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim
1988: "Driving Miss Daisy" by Alfred Uhry
1989: "The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy Wasserstein
1991: "Lost In Yonkers" by Neil Simon
1992: "The Kentucky Cycle" by Robert Schenkkan
1993: "Angels In America: Millennium Approaches" by Tony Kushner
1995: "The Young Man From Atlanta" by Horton Foote
1996: "Rent" by Jonathan Larson
1998: "How I Learned To Drive" by Paula Vogel
2000: "Dinner With Friends" by Donald Margulies
2001: "Proof" by David Auburn
2005: "Doubt: A Parable" by John Patrick Shanley
2007: "Rabbit Hole" by David Lindsay-Abaire
2008: "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts
2013: "Disgraced" [2012] by Ayad Akhtar
premiered at The American Theater Company in January 2012 and was staged at LCT3/Lincoln Center in New York in October 2012
Tony-nominated drama tackles the complexities of living as a Muslim in post-9/11 America
2014: "The Flick" by Annie Baker
2015: "Between Riverside and Crazy" by Stephen Adly Guirgis
2016: "Hamilton" musical about Alexander Hamilton [1757-1804] by Lin-Manuel Miranda
2017: "Sweat" by Lynn Nottage
2018: "Cost of Living" [2016, off-Broadway 2017] by Martyna Majok
2019: stageplay "Fairview" [off-Broadway 2018] by Jackie Sibblies Drury
The Pulitzer Prize for History
For a distinguished book on the history of the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_History
Margaret Leech [1893-1974]: two awards, for "Reveille In Washington, 1860–1865" [1942], and
"In the Days of McKinley" [1950]
Bernard Bailyn [b. 1922]: two awards, for "The Ideological Origins of The American Revolution" [1968] and
"Voyagers To The West: A Passage In The Peopling of America On The Eve of The Revolution" [1987]
Paul Horgan [1903-95]: two awards, for "Great River: The Rio Grande In North American History" [1955], and
"Lamy of Santa Fe" [1975]
Alan Taylor: two awards, for "William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion On The Frontier of The Early American
Republic" [1996] and "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War In Virginia, 1772-1832 [2014]
1930: "The War of Independence" by Claude H. Van Tyne
1932: "My Experiences In The World War" by John J. Pershing
1940: "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" by Carl Sandburg (plus two awards for Poetry)
1946: "The Age of Jackson" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1948: "Across The Wide Missouri" by Bernard DeVoto
1954: "A Stillness At Appomattox" by Bruce Catton
| 1955: |  | "Great River: The Rio Grande In North American History" [1954] by Paul Horgan {won the Bancroft Prize and Pulitzer Prize for History} Volume 1: Indians & Spain, Volume 2: Mexico & The United States Kindle Edition from Wesleyan [4/2012] for $14.29 Wesleyan 8½x5½ pb [10/91] for $21.79 Holt, Rinehart & Winston 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/71] out of print/used Rinehart & Co. 9½x6¾ hardcover [1954] out of print/many used The Rio Grande River begins in Colorado, runs down the center of New Mexico, and defines the border between Mexico and Texas. |
1956: "The Age of Reform" by Richard Hofstadter (plus 1964 award in Non-Fiction)
| 1961 Special Award |  |
"American Heritage Picture History of The Civil War: The Epic Struggle of The Blue and Gray" [1960] Narrative by Bruce Catton Gramercy 11x8¾ hardcover [4/94] out of print/150+ used American Heritage 11x8¾ hardcover [11/82] out of print/many used American Heritage 11x8½ hardcover [1960] out of print/used |
| 1968: |  | "The Ideological Origins of The American Revolution: Enlarged Edition" [1967 classic] by Bernard Bailyn "a classic of American historical literature"; also won the Bancroft Prize Belknap Press 8x5½ pb [3/92] for $20.95 Belknap Press hardcover [12/67] out of print/used see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Founding Fathers Page |
1973 Special Pulitzer Citation: "George Washington, Volumes I-IV" by James Thomas Flexner
1974: "The Americans: The Democratic Experience" by Daniel J. Boorstin
1975: "Jefferson and His Time" by Dumas Malone
1986: "... The Heavens and The Earth: A Political History of The Space Age" by Walter A. McDougall
1989: "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era" [1988] by James M. McPherson
1995: "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front In World War II" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
| 1997: |  | "Original Meanings: Politics & Ideas In The Making of The Constitution" [1996] by Jack N. Rakove Kindle Edition from Knopf Group E-Books [4/2010] for $13.99 Vintage 8x5 pb [5/97] for $12.13 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [3/96] out of print/many used see also the U.S. Constitution Page at Working Minds Philosophy website |
1998: "Summer For The Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion" by Edward J. Larson
| 2001: |  | "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" [2000] by Joseph J. Ellis Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/2002] for $10.17 Knopf 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2000] for $18.15 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Founding Fathers Page |
2006 Special Pulitzer Award: Edmund S. Morgan [b. 1916], for a creative and deeply influential body of work
as an American historian that spans the last half century
| 2008: |  | "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" [2007] by Daniel Walker Howe Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2009] for $12.14 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¾ hardcover [10/2007] for $23.10 |
| 2009: |  | "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" [2008] by Annette Gordon-Reed - also won the National Book Award Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [9/2009] for $9.99 W.W. Norton & Co. 9¼x6½ pb [9/2009] for $12.89 W.W. Norton & Co. 9¾x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [9/2008] for $23.25 see also Spirit of America's Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] Page |
| 2010: |  | "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World" [2009] by Liaquat Ahamed also listed Best of 2009 by Time Magazine Penguin 8½x5½ pb [12/2009] for $9.79 Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2009] for $21.75 |
2012: "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Manning Marable [1950-2011]
2013: "Embers of War: The Fall of An Empire and The Making of America’s Vietnam" by Fredrik Logevall
2014: "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War In Virginia, 1772-1832" by Alan Taylor
2015: "Encounters At The Heart of The World: A History of The Mandan People" by Elizabeth A. Fenn[3]
2016: "Custer's Trials: A Life On The Frontier of A New America" by T. J. Stiles
2017: "Blood In The Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy" by Heather Ann Thompson
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography
For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Biography_or_Autobiography
Walter Jackson Bate, 1964, 1978
Robert Caro, 1975, 2003
David Herbert Donald, 1961, 1988
Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958
Burton J. Hendrick for Biography
Marquis James [1891-1955]: two awards, for "The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston" [1930], and "Andrew Jackson" [1938]
David Levering Lewis [b. 1936]: two awards, for books on W.E.B. Du Bois in 1994 & 2001
David McCullough, 1993, 2002
Samuel Eliot Morison, 1943, 1960
Joseph Allan Nevins [1890-1971]: two awards, for "Grover Cleveland" [1933], and "Hamilton Fish" [1937]
1919: "The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Adams
1927: "Whitman" by Emory Holloway
1932: "Theodore Roosevelt" by Henry F. Pringle
| 1946: |  | "Son of The Wilderness: The Life of John Muir" [1945] by Linnie Marsh Wolfe [1881-1945], Foreword by Steven J. Holmes Univ Wisconsin Press 2nd edition 8¾x5½ pb [3/2003] for $24.95 Univ Wisconsin Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [11/78] out of print/used Alfred A. Knopf 9x6 hardcover [1945] out of print/used |
1949: "Roosevelt and Hopkins" by Robert E. Sherwood (plus three awards for Drama)
1954: "The Spirit of St. Louis" by Charles A. Lindbergh
1957: "Profiles In Courage" by John F. Kennedy [1917-63]
1959: "Woodrow Wilson: American Prophet" by Arthur Walworth
1966: "A Thousand Days" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1967: "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain" by Justin Kaplan
1968: "Memoirs" by George Frost Kennan
1971: "Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938" by Lawrence Thompson
1972: "Eleanor and Franklin" by Joseph P. Lash
1973: "Luce and His Empire" by W.A. Swanberg
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"O'Neill Volume I: Son and Playwright" [1968] by Louis Scheaffer
Cooper Square Press 9x6 pb [11/2002] for $22.95 A.M.S. Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/88] for $82.50 "O'Neill Volume II: Son and Artist" [1973] by Louis Scheaffer second volume won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Cooper Square Press 9x6 pb [11/2002] for $24.95 A.M.S. Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/88] for $82.50 |
| 1976: |  | "Edith Wharton: A Biography" [1975] by R.W.B. Lewis Fromm Intl 9¼x6¼ pb [10/93] out of print/many used HarperCollins 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/75] out of print/many used see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Edith Wharton [1862-1937] Page |
1980: "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris
1984: "Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915" by Louis R. Harlan
1987: "Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and The Southern Christian Leadership Conference" by David J. Garrow
| 1988: |  | "Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe" [1987] by David Herbert Donald Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $29.00 Little, Brown hardcover [3/89] out of print/many used Ballantine/Fawcett pb [2/88] out of print/many used |
1991: "Jackson Pollock: An American Saga" by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith
1993: "Truman" by David McCullough
1999: "Lindbergh" by A. Scott Berg
| 2002: |  | "John Adams" biography [2001] by David McCullough "The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president" Kindle Edition from Touchstone/Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [2001 edition] for $14.99 Touchstone 9¼x6 pb [9/2002] for $11.60 Simon & Schuster 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2001] for $12.00 |
2005: "de Kooning: An American Master" by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan
| 2006: |  | "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" [2005] by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin Vintage 8x5¼ pb [4/2006] for $11.67 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2005] for $23.10 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67] Page |
2010: "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt" by T.J. Stiles
2011: "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow
2012: "George F. Kennan: An American Life" by John Lewis Gaddis
2013: "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and The Real Count of Monte Cristo" by Tom Reiss
2014: "Margaret Fuller: A New American Life" by Megan Marshall
| 2015: |  | "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and The Rise of Fascism In Europe" [2014] by David I. Kertzer
Kindle Edition from Random House [1/2014] for $13.99 Random House Trade 9¼x6 pb [1/2015] for $16.40 Random House Book Club 9½x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [1/2014] for $11.57 |
2016: "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life" by William Finnegan
2017: "The Return: Fathers, Sons, and The Land In Between" by Hisham Matar
| 2018: |  | "Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder" [2017]  by Caroline Fraser (Espen) of Santa Fe, New Mexico a comprehensive historical biography of author Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957], and one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of The Year; also among Amazon Best Books of November 2017; won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2018 Kindle Edition from Metropolitan Books/Macmillan [11/2017] for $16.99 Little, Brown Book Group 9x6 pb [11/2017] out of print/used Fleet 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2017] for $21.20 Metropolitan Books 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2017] for $23.79 |
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American poet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry
Robert Frost [1874-1963]: four awards, for "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes" [1924],
"Collected Poems" [1931], "A Further Range" [1937], and "A Witness Tree" [1943]
Edwin Arlington Robinson [1869-1935]: three awards, for "Collected Poems" [1922],
"The Man Who Died Twice" [1925], and "Tristram" [1928]
Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]: three awards, Special Pulitzer Award for "Corn Huskers" [1919], and "Complete Poems" [1951],
plus 1940 award for History
Robert Penn Warren [1905-89]: three awards, for "Promises: Poems, 1954-1956" [1958], and
"Now and Then [1979], plus 1947 award for Fiction
Archibald MacLeish [1892-1982]: three awards, for "Conquistador" [1933] and
"Collected Poems, 1917-1952" [1953], plus 1959 award for Drama
Robert Lowell [1917-77]: two awards, for "Lord Weary's Castle" [1947], and "The Dolphin" [1974]
William S. Merwin [b. 1927]: two awards, for "The Carrier of Ladders" [1971], and "The Shadow of Sirius" [2009]
1923: "The Ballad of The Harp-Weaver: A Miscellany" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
1926: "What's O'Clock" by Amy Lowell
1929: "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benét
1940: "Collected Poems" by Mark Van Doren
1942: "The Dust Which Is God" by William Rose Benét
1944: "Western Star" by Stephen Vincent Benét
1948: "The Age of Anxiety" by W.H. Auden
1950: "Annie Allen" by Gwendolyn Brooks
1952: "Collected Poems" by Marianne Moore
1954: "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
1955: "Collected Poems" by Wallace Stevens
1963: "Pictures From Brueghel" by William Carlos Williams
1967: "Live or Die" by Anne Sexton
1972: "Collected Poems" by James Wright [1927-80]
1975: "Turtle Island" by Gary Snyder
1982: "The Collected Poems" by Sylvia Plath [1932-63]
1987: "Thomas and Beulah" by Rita Dove
1993: "The Wild Iris" by Louise Glück
The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction [est. 1962]
For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Non-Fiction
Barbara W. Tuchman [1912-89]: two awards, for "The Guns of August" [1963], and
"Stilwell and The American Experience In China, 1911-45" [1972]
Edward O. Wilson [b.1929]: two awards, for "On Human Nature" [1979], and
"The Ants" by Bert Hölldobler & Edward O. Wilson [1991]
1962: "The Making of The President, 1960" by Theodore White
| 1964: |  | "Anti-Intellectualism In American Life" [1963 classic] by Richard Hofstadter (also won 1956 award in History) Vintage 8x5 pb [2/66] for $12.24 Knopf 9½x7 hardcover [5/63] out of print/used |
1965: "O Strange New World" by Howard Mumford Jones
1966: "Wandering Through Winter" by Edwin Way Teale
1967: "The Problem of Slavery In Western Culture" by David Brion Davis
1968: "Rousseau and Revolution (Volume 10 of The Story of Civilization)" by Will & Ariel Durant
1969: "So Human An Animal" by Rene Jules Dubos
| 1969: |  | "The Armies of The Night: History As A Novel, The Novel As History" [1968] by Norman Mailer (who also won 1980 award in Fiction) Mailer participated in the March On The Pentagon of 21 October 1967; his arrest and news commentary were expanded into a book, which became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction. Plume 8x5¼ pb [1/95] for $10.20 New American Library hardcover [12/68] out of print/used |
1970: "Gandhi's Truth" by Erik H. Erikson
1971: "The Rising Sun" by John Toland
1973: "Fire In The Lake: The Vietnamese and The Americans In Vietnam" by Frances FitzGerald
1973: "Children of Crisis, Volumes 2 & 3" by Robert Coles
| 1974: |  | "Denial of Death" [S&S 1973] by Ernest Becker
Free Press 8½x5½ pb [5/97] for $10.65 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [3/85] out of print/used Peter Smith Publrs 8¾x5¾ hardcover [11/98] for $31.75 |
1975: "Pilgrim At Tinker Creek" by Annie Dillard
| 1976: |  | "Why Survive?: Being Old In America" [1975 classic] by Dr. Robert N. Butler [1927-2010] Johns Hopkins Univ Press 8¼x6 pb [11/2002] for $22.28 author entry at Wikipedia |
1977: "Beautiful Swimmers" by William W. Warner
1978: "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan
1978 Special Pulitzer Award: E.B. White [1899-1985], for his letters, essays and the full body of his work
| 1980: |  | "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" [1979] by Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books 9x6 pb [1/99] for $15.10 Basic Books hardcover [3/79] out of print/many used |
1982: "The Soul of A New Machine" by Tracy Kidder
1983: "Is There No Place On Earth For Me?" by Susan Sheehan
1984 Special Pulitzer Award: Theodor Seuss Geisel [1904-91], more widely known as Dr. Seuss, for his special contribution
over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents
1985: "The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two" by Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008]
| 1988: |  | "The Making of The Atomic Bomb" [1987] by Richard Rhodes also won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award Kindle 25th Anniv Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [9/2012] for $14.99 S&S 25th Anniv 9x6 pb [7/2012] for $21.15 S&S 9¼x6 pb [8/95] for $16.03 Touchstone 9¼x6¼ pb [2/88] out of print/90+ used S&S 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/87] out of print/used |
| 1992: |  | "The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power" [1991 bestseller] by Daniel Yergin Free Press 9½x6 pb [1/93] for $14.96 Pocket 9x6 pb [12/91] out of print/used S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [1/91] out of print/used |
1993: "Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America" by Garry Wills
1995: "The Beak of The Finch: A Story of Evolution In Our Time" by Jonathan Weiner
1997: "Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, and
The Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris" by Richard Kluger
| 1998: |  | "Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" [1997 bestseller] by Jared Diamond - Two years on the N.Y. Times bestseller lists Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [1999 edition] for $7.07 W.W. Norton 9¼x6 pb [4/99] for $11.24 W.W. Norton 9½x7 hardcover [7/2005] for $17.82 |
1999: "Annals of The Former World" by John McPhee
2002: "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of The Civil Rights Revolution" by Diane McWhorter
2007: "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and The Road To 9/11" by Lawrence Wright
2009: "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From The Civil War To
World War II" by Douglas A. Blackmon
2011: "Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
| 2012: |  | "The Swerve: How The World Became Modern" [2011] by Stephen Greenblatt Author contends that in 1417 when Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini discovered the last manuscript of the poem "On The Nature of Things" by the Roman Lucretius and ordered copies made, that that single action triggered the later Renaissance. Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [9/2012] for $9.43 W.W. Norton & Co. 8x5½ pb [9/2012] for $11.53 W.W. Norton & Co. 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2011] for $17.76 |
| 2013: |  | "Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys, and The Dawn of A New America" [2012] by Gilbert King New York Times bestseller, book won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction; back in 1949 Florida, Jim Crow policies were enforced by the Lake County sheriff; when a white girl cried rape, the Ku Klux Klan swarmed to Groveland, burning black-owned homes and chasing around after the four accused Afro-American teenagers. After one N.A.A.C.P. worker was murdered, lawyer Thurgood Marshall – even though he was quite busy preparing Brown v. Board of Education to go before the U.S. Supreme Court – stepped into the fray, resulting in a series of threats on his life. But he just would not back down . . . Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [3/2012] for $9.60 Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [2/2013] for $10.11 Harper 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2012] for $18.79 Harper hardcover [3/2012] out of print/used |
| 2015: |  | "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" [2014] by Elizabeth Kolbert New York Times bestseller, book won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Kindle Edition from Henry Holt & Co. [2/2014] for $9.99 Picador 8¼x5½ pb [1/2015] for $11.02 Henry Holt & Co. 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/2014] for $18.66 |
The Pulitzer Prize for Music
Since 1943; For a distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Music
Samuel Barber [1910-81]: two awards, for "Vanessa" [1958 opera], and "Piano Concerto" [1963]
Elliot Carter [1908-2012]: two awards, for "String Quartet No. 2" [1960], and "String Quartet No. 3" [1973]
Walter Piston [1894-76]: two awards, for "Symphony No. 3" [1948], and "Symphony No. 7" [1961]
Gian Carlo Menotti [1911-2007]: two awards, for "The Consul" [1950 opera], and "The Saint of Bleecker Street" [1955 opera]
1943: "Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song" by William Schuman [1910-92], adapted from poems by Walt Whitman [1819-92]
1944 Special Pulitzer Award: Richard Rodgers [1902-79] & Oscar Hammerstein II [1895-1960], for "Oklahoma"
1945: "Appalachian Spring" ballet by Aaron Copland [1900-90]
1947: "Symphony No. 3" by Charles Ives [1874-1954]
1974 Special Pulitzer Award: Roger Sessions [1896-1985], for his life's work as a distinguished American composer
1976: "Air Music" by Ned Rorem [b. 1923]
1976 Special Pulitzer Bicentennial Year Award: Scott Joplin [1868?-1917]
1982: "Concerto For Orchestra" by Roger Sessions [1896-1985]
1982 Special Pulitzer Award: Milton Babbitt [1916-2011], for his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer
1997: "Blood On The Fields" oratorio by Wynton Marsalis
1998 Special Pulitzer Award: George Gershwin [1898-1937], for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music
1999 Special Pulitzer Award: Duke Ellington [1899-1974], in recognition of his musical genius
2006 Special Pulitzer Citation: Thelonious Monk [1917-82], for a body of distinguished & innovative musical composition
that has had a significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz
2007: "Sound Grammar" by Ornette Coleman [b. 1930]
2007 Special Pulitzer Citation: John Coltrane [1926-67], for his masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship,
and iconic centrality to the history of jazz
2008 Special Pulitzer Award: Bob Dylan [b. 1941], for his profound impact on popular music and American culture,
marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power
2010 Special Pulitzer Award: Hank Williams [1923-53], for his craftsmanship as a songwriter who played a
pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical & cultural force in American life
2018: Kendrick Lamar for "Damn" (his fourth album) - the first rap album ever to win a Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Prize for {Journalism in the} Public Service [est. 1917]
The most prestigious of the Pulitzer Prizes for news media, the only one for which the winner receives a gold medal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Public_Service
[ to be done later ]
1972: Pulitzer Prize for Public Service to The New York Times, 'for a distinguished example of meritorious public service
by a newspaper, for publication of the Pentagon Papers'
1973: The Washington Post "for its investigation of the Watergate case"
Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
Carol Guzy: four awards for Photography
Thomas L. Friedman: three awards for Journalism, 1983, 1988 & 2002
Horst Faas: two awards for Photography
Gene Miller: two awards for Investigative Reporting
Anthony Shadid: two awards for his coverage of the Iraq War
Gene Weingarten: two awards for Feature Writing - 2008 and 2010
"Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, 1942-1982" [1989] by Sheryl & John Leekley and Dan Rather
http://www.amazon.com/Moments-Pulitzer-Prize-Photographs-1942-1982/dp/B001S2TP6O/
"The Pulitzer Prize Photographs Capture The Moment" [2010] from The Newseum
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Photographs-Capture-Moment-Updated/dp/0979952123/
http://www.amazon.com/Capture-Moment-Pulitzer-Prize-Photographs/dp/0393322823/
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"Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs" [2015] Text by Hal Buell, Foreword by David Halberstam 'more than 600 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs, from the first awards in 1942 through the 2015 honors' Black Dog & Leventhal 10¼x10 pb [9/2015] for $28.70 BD&G/Tess Press pb [2010] out of print/used BD&G/Tess Press pb [2007] out of print/used Black Dog & Leventhal 11½x10¼ hardcover [9/2002] out of print/used BD&G/Tess Press hardcover [9/2009] out of print/used |
| 1949: |  | "On The Waterfront: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Articles That Inspired The Classic Film & Transformed The New York Harbor" [1948] by Malcolm Johnson & Budd Schulberg Malcolm Johnson [1904-76] entry at Wikipedia Chamberlain 8x5¼ hardcover [5/2005] out of print/used Allison & Busby pb [undated] out of print/used |
1958: Special Pulitzer Award to Walter Lippman [1889-1974], nationally-syndicated columnist at The New York Herald Tribune
1971: Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting to Lucinda Franks [1946-2021], since known for her perceptive investigative journalism;
she was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, and at age 24 the youngest person ever to win any Pulitzer.
1972: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to Mike Royko, Chicago Daily News columnist
1975: Pulitzer Prize for Criticism to Roger Ebert [1942-2013], Chicago Sun-Times
1976: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to Walter Wellesley 'Red' Smith, New York Times sports columnist
| 1976: |  | "The Death and Life of Dith Pran" [1985] by Sydney H. Schanberg Schanberg won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his Cambodia coverage; the book happened later, as did the movie "The Killing Fields" Sydney Schanberg entry at Wikipedia Dell movie tie-in pb [8/84] out of print/many used Viking hardcover [5/85] out of print/used |
1977: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to George F. Will, Washington Post
1978: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to William Safire, New York Times
1978: Pulitzer Prize for Criticism to Walter Kerr, New York Times
1979: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to Russell Baker, New York Times
1982: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to Art Buchwald, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
1986: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to Jimmy Breslin, New York Daily News
1988: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to Dave Barry, Miami Herald
1990: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times sports columnist
1990: Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting to husband & wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, New York Times
for their reporting from Beijing about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_WuDunn + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kristof
P.B.S. 'Makers Profiles' short videos of Sheryl WuDunn {Kristof}
http://www.halftheskymovement.org/
1996: Special Pulitzer Award to Herb Caen [1916-97], local columnist of the San Francisco Chronicle
1998: Pulitzer Prize for Criticism to Ms. Michiko Kakutani, literary critic for the New York Times
 | "N.S.A. Secrets: Government Spying in the Internet Age" for Kindle [2013] by The Washington Post a series of newspaper articles that won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism (Public Service) in 2014 Kindle Edition from Diversion Books [12/2013] for $2.99 {sic} more on the Working Minds / Activism Dept. / Right To Privacy Page |
Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning
Herbert Block: three awards for Editorial Cartooning
Edmund Duffy: three awards for Editorial Cartooning
Rollin Kirby: three awards for Editorial Cartooning
Jeff MacNelly: three awards for Editorial Cartooning
Steve Breen: two awards for Editorial Cartooning
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick: two awards for Editorial Cartooning
Walt Handelsman: two awards for Editorial Cartooning
Nelson Harding: two awards for Editorial Cartooning
David Horsey: two awards for Editorial Cartooning
Mike Luckovich: two awards for Editorial Cartooning
Bill Mauldin: two awards for Editorial Cartooning
Michael Ramirez: two awards for Editorial Cartooning
1945: Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning to Bill Mauldin [1921-2003] at age 23
Works About Joseph Pulitzer
A journalist who became a media mogul with an outspoken, cantankerous editorial voice and two best-selling newspapers,
Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911] championed what he regarded as the sacred role of the free press in a democracy.
Joseph Pulitzer entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Life-Politics-Print-Power/dp/B004E3XI3A/
http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Pulitzer-Behind-Achiever-Achievement/dp/158415179X/
 | "American Masters: Joseph Pulitzer - Voice of The People" [P.B.S./WNET-TV13 April 2019] Co-produced by Andrea Miller; co-produced, co-written & directed by Oren Rudavsky; co-produced & co-written by Robert Seidman; narrated by Adam Driver; featuring Liev Schreiber {as voice of JP} P.B.S. Direct widescreen color DVD [4/2019] for $13.53 bare credits at IMDb • watch official trailer/promo [3/2019 upload; 2:14] online at YouTube |
"Joseph Pulitzer and the Brooklyn Bridge | American Masters | PBS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6aTb4QSO9s 2.30
"American Genius - Hearst vs. Pulitzer | National Geographic | HD 720P Documentary PBS Nova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPNNqHL6k5w 1.13.59
Works About The Pulitzer Prize
"The Pulitzer At 100" [Starz July 2017]
 | 90-minute independent documentary, told through riveting stories of the artists that have won the prestigious prize, with Pulitzer work read by Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, Liev Schreiber, John Lithgow and Yara Shahidi • Co-produced & directed by Kirk Simon; featuring composer John Adams, playwright Ayad Akhtar, Jim Amoss, Martin Baron, Carl Bernstein, biographer Robert Caro, novelist Michael Chabon, book critic Maureen Corrigan, musician David Crosby, novelist Michael Cunningham, novelist Junot Diaz, author James English, novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, photographer John Filo, Sheri Fink, Thomas Friedman, Robin Givhan, Theodore Glasser, author Roy Harris, poet Yusef Komun-yakaa, Nicholas Kristof, playwright Tony Kushner, Carol Leonnig, actor John Lithgow, composer Wynton Marsalis, author James McGrath Morris, Mary McNamara, actress Helen Mirren, novelist Toni Morrison, Cyrus R.K. Patell, actress Natalie Portman, David Remnick (editor, The New Yorker Magazine), actor Liev Schreiber, producer-director Martin Scorsese, Yara Shahidi, poet Tracy K. Smith, photographer Nick Ut, playwright Paula Vogel
First Run Features widescreen color DVD [11/2017] for $23.91 full credits at IMDb • official movie website watch official trailer [2/2016 upload; 1:05] online at Vimeo watch 8/2017 official trailer [1:34] online at YouTube |
Pulitzer-Winner Anthologies & Criticism
 | "Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection (11 Works)" for Kindle [2013]
Kindle Edition from Jame-Books [10/2013] for $1.99 {sic} includes eleven full-length works: 1918 Fiction winner "His Family" by Ernest Poole; 1919 Special Award for Poetry winner "Cornhuskers" collection by Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]; 1919 Autobiography winner "The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Adams; 1921 Fiction winner "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton [1862-1937]; 1921 Drama winner "Miss Lulu Bett" by Zona Gale; 1921 Autobiography winner "The Americanization of Edward Bok" by Edward Bok; 1922 Drama winner "Anna Christie" by Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953]; 1922 Biography winner "A Daughter of The Middle Border" by Hamlin Garland; 1922 Fiction winner "Alice Adams" by Booth Tarkington; 1923 Biography winner "The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page" by Burton J. Hendrick; and 1923 Fiction winner "One of Ours" by Willa Cather [1873-1947] |
http://www.amazon.com/Capture-Moment-Pulitzer-Prize-Photographs/dp/0393322823/
http://www.amazon.com/Capture-Moment-Pulitzer-Prize-Photographs/dp/0979952107/
http://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Pulitzer-Prizes-Biography-Archive/dp/3598301901/
http://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Pulitzer-Prizes-Poetry-Discussions/dp/3110230070/
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Biographical-Encyclopedia-Pulitzer-Winners/dp/3598301863/
http://www.amazon.com/Fiction-Awards-1917-1994-Pulitzer-Archive/dp/3598301804/
http://www.amazon.com/Memorable-Quotations-Pulitzer-Winners-ebook/dp/B001ARLKEC/
http://www.amazon.com/Moments-Pulitzer-Photographs-Hal-Buell/dp/1579120784/
http://www.amazon.com/Moments-Pulitzer-Photographs-Sheryle-Leekley/dp/051753276X/
http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Coverage-World-Pulitzer-Panorama/dp/3643108443/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Diaries-Inside-Americas-Greatest/dp/0815603924/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prize-Archive-Award-Winning-Journalism/dp/3598301707/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prize-Feature-Stories-Americas/dp/0813825458/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prize-Inside-Americas-Prestigious/dp/1559720700/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prize-Feature-Stories-Garlock/dp/0813823897/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prize-Novels-Critical-Backward/dp/080611665X/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prize-Plays-1917-1967-Reflection/dp/0879103558/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prize-Story-Award-Winning-Editorials/dp/0231049781/
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prize-Winners-Music/dp/3631596081/
http://www.amazon.com/Waterfront-Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Articles-Transformed/dp/1596090138/
http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Who-Pulitzer-Prize-Winners/dp/1573561118/
L i n k s
The Pulitzer Prizes [est. 1917] official website
Pulitzer Prizes entry at Wikipedia
Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911] entry at Wikipedia
short history video [8:37] at Vimeo
http://www.hycyber.com/CLASS/pulitzer_fiction.html
http://www.literature-awards.com/pulitzerprize.htm
search for books on keywords 'pulitzer+prize+winners' {returns 2,100+ titles} at Amazon
browse books by recent Pulitzer Prize winners at Amazon
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