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6 hours ago · BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (WBOY) — Earlier this month, Buckhannon native Jayne Anne Phillips’s novel “Night Watch” won the Pulitzer Prize. The novel is set in the aftermath of the Civil War and is based in the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston. 12 News reporter Jefferson Pan caught up with Phillips after her Pulitzer Prize win.
6 hours ago · Admin May 30, 2024. Pat Lawson Muse (1922-2015) was an American lawyer, civil rights activist, and politician from the state of Virginia. She was the first African-American female lawyer in the state, as well as the first black woman to serve in the Virginia General Assembly. A trailblazer in the legal and political realms, she was a staunch ...
May 31, 2024 · Clyde's Remind Like List As a Pulitzer Prize winner and 2007 MacArthur genius, Lynn Nottage often centers working-class people in her storytelling—her 2015 play Sweat centered small-town Pennsylvania factory workers facing job insecurity, racism, and class disparities. This time around, she had me at "play about a sandwich."
1 day ago · Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Humboldt's Gift, Seize the Day (born in Canada) Louis Bellson, jazz drummer, bandleader and musician; James Belushi, actor, comedian, According to Jim, Saturday Night Live, Taking Care of Business, K-9; John Belushi, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live, Animal House, 1941, The Blues ...
1 day ago · Leonard Adleman, BA Math 1969, PhD EECS 1976, Turing Award laureate (2002) Jay Miner, BS 1959, "father of the Amiga " computer. Academy Award -winning actor Gregory Peck, BA 1942. Emmy - and Golden Globe Award - award-winning actress Kathy Baker, BA 1977.
1 day ago · Grigoriu / Lupu / Sinfonia Da Camera - Byzantium After Byzantium music CD album at CD Universe, Sherban Lupu, violon - Andrei Tanasescu, piano - Sinfonia da Camera.
6 hours ago · Boston University. / 42.34889°N 71.10028°W / 42.34889; -71.10028. Boston University ( BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before being chartered in Boston in 1869.
