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3 days ago · Pulitzer Prize, any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University, New York City, for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Predicting the winner for the May 6th ceremony is nearly impossible. Last year’s announcement is a great example. There wasn’t one winner. Nope. Instead, there were two winners for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Barbara Kingsolver won for Demon Copperhead AND Hernan Diaz also won for Trust. 2023 was definitely better than 2012, which ...
1 day ago · April 19, 1977. Alex Haley was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for “Roots,” which was also adapted for television. Network executives worried that the depiction of the brutality of the slave experience might scare away viewers. Instead, 130 Americans watched the epic miniseries, which meant that 85% of U.S. households watched the program.
4 days ago · Twice he has won the Pulitzer Prize. “One of the issues I continually write about is our problematic history of white supremacy in this country,” he said. “During the last 10 years, I have gone to the scene of white supremacists’ terrorist attacks, mass shootings that happen here with alarming frequency, often perpetrated by young ...
2 days ago · On April 18, 1977, author and historian Alex Haley received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for his groundbreaking novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.”. The narrative delved into generations of his family’s lineage, tracing back to Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African sold into slavery in the American South.
5 days ago · By Brandon Ng - April 15, 2024. Farah Stockman, a renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who serves on the New York Times Editorial Board, visited Binghamton University on Thursday to speak about her career and research. The talk, “What Happens to Workers and Communities When Jobs Disappear,” was the concluding lecture in a series ...
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5 days ago · Choose your plan →. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer,” winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is now an HBO limited series.
