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His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter .
By James Ijames. Official trailer. (Wilma Theater) A witty take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet where the only death is the patriarchy. The ghost of Juicy’s dad haunts him and asks for revenge – on Juicy’s uncle, who has now married his widowed mom.
James Gould Cozzens (August 19, 1903 – August 9, 1978) was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades.
James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Prize Winners The 1958 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Prize Winners The 1948 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Jul 27, 2016 · James Alan McPherson, who overcame segregation and the narrow prism of a legal education to become the first black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, died on Wednesday in Iowa City.
May 9, 2022 · James Ijames' Fat Ham was the winner, with Sylvia Khoury's Selling Kabul and Kristina Wong's Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord being recognized as finalists.
May 10, 2022 · This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, and Philadelphia playwright James Ijames brought home the prestigious award. Ijames, an associate professor at Villanova University and a co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater in Center City Philadelphia, won for his play “Fat Ham,” which reimagines Shakespeare’s classic “Hamlet ...
From staff and freelance correspondents to interpreters to drivers to hosts, courageous Afghan residents helped produce Pulitzer-winning and Pulitzer-worthy images and stories that have contributed to a wider understanding of profoundly tragic and complicated circumstances.
