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3 days ago · Yusef Komunyakaa (born April 29, 1947, Bogalusa, Louisiana, U.S.) is a poet and professor best known for his autobiographical poems about African American identity, the Vietnam War, and jazz and blues. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 1977–1989 (1993).
Many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Nelson Harding is the only person to have received a prize in two consecutive years, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1927 and 1928. American poet Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize four times from 1924 to 1943.
4 days ago · The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded today at Columbia University, honoring American achievements in journalism, letters and drama, and music. Widely recognized as the most prestigious awards in their ...
Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips (Knopf) A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal.
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2008. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek (HarperCollins) The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam (Hyperion) 2007.
Pulitzer's Flexible Will. In writing his 1904 will, which made provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes as an incentive to excellence, Pulitzer specified solely four awards in journalism, four in books and drama, one for education, and five traveling scholarships. Initally, three of the scholarships were awarded on the ...
