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April 12, 2017

Wednesday News: 2017 Pulitzer Prize, Google Book Search, 19th C African American activism on record, and autism on Sesame Street

JanetPublishing News19th C history / African American activists / autism / Google Book Search / History / literary prizes / muppets / Pulitzer-Prize / Sesame StreetComments Off on Wednesday News: 2017 Pulitzer Prize, Google Book Search, 19th C African American activism on record, and autism on Sesame Street

Here Are The Winners Of The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes – The 101st Pulitzer Prize winning works and artists were announced on Monday, in a process somewhat different from other literary prizes, in that the finalists are not announced until the final Prizes are. Although the journalism prizes have gotten particular attention ... more >

April 19, 2016

Tuesday News: 100th Pulitzer Prizes, wine train book club settles suit, SCOTUS turns down Authors Guild, and Russia’s “womanhood schools”

JanetPublishing NewsAuthors Guild / Book-club / digital books / discrimination / Google / lawsuit / marriage / Pulitzer-Prize / Russia7 Comments

100th Pulitzer prizes announced – Journalism awards, in particular, stood out this year, with the Los Angeles Times winning for their breaking coverage of the San Bernadino shooting, and digital media ProPublica and the Marshall Project’s collaborative win for explanatory reporting. The full list of winners can be found here, and ... more >

Jennie
February 12, 2015

Reading List by Jennie for November and December

JennieBook ReviewsCivil-War / classic fiction / Classic horror fiction / historical romance / mystery / non-fiction / Pulitzer-Prize / Reading lists14 Comments

I also read and reviewed Time and Again by Jack Finney.   Dracula by Bram Stoker I wanted to try a classic “scary” read for Halloween (though I started Dracula too late and didn’t finish it until well into November). I was a little uncertain about reading this one, though – ... more >

April 7, 2008

2008 Pulitzers Announced

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FICTION: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) DRAMA: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts HISTORY: What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) BIOGRAPHY: Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton) POETRY: Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) POETRY: Failure ... more >

November 11, 2007

Two Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer Passes Away

JanePublishing NewsAuthor-deaths / Pulitzer-PrizeComments Off on Two Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer Passes Away

Source:  © William Coupon/CORBIS. Norman Mailer, a two time Pulitizer Prize winner, died from renal failure at the age of 84 on Saturday. Mailer’s award winning books were The Armies of the Night which his his account of the peace march on the Pentagon and The Executioner’s Song, the true ... more >

August 3, 2007

US Library of Congress Names New Poet Laureate: Charles Simic

JanePublishing NewsPulitzer-PrizeComments Off on US Library of Congress Names New Poet Laureate: Charles Simic

Charles Simic can add one more accolade to his already embarrassingly full resume. The 69 year old Yugoslavian who the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990 also recently won the Academy of American Poets’ 14th annual $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant in 1984. ... more >

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