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2008 Pulitzers Announced

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 by Philip Schultz (Harcourt) Pulitzer.org(…)

Two Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer Passes Away

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 story of the execution of(…)

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. The Poet Laureate annual stipend(…)

Pulitzer Prize Winner’s Wife Leaves for Ted Turner’s Harem

Robert Olen Butler, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, is a believer that what goes on in the marriage bed should be shared with others and thus when his wife of twelve years, Elizabeth Dewberry, left him for Ted Turner, he wrote a long detailed email to his favorite grad students and others about the demise(…)

Photojournalist in trouble for doctoring photos

It seems pretty innocuous but to those in the business, doing a little photoshop editing of a journalism photo is pretty egregious. Allan Detrich, formerly of the Toledo Blade, was found to have photoshopped prints submitted for publication. Most of the editing was done to remove backgrounds according to Detrich. Two Pulitzer Prizes are awarded(…)

2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Oprah’s Book Club selection, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, won the Fiction prize. The Wall Street Journal won for its investigation of corporate backdating of stock options. Interestingly, the “Breaking News Reporting” was awarded to the Staff of The Oregonian for its reporting of the family missing in the Oregon mountains, both in print on(…)

Pulitzer Prize winning author Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. dies

Last night, two time Pulitzer Prize winning author, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr died as a result of a heart attack last night in New York City. He was 89. Schlesinger won the Pulitzer Prize for the books The Age of Jackson and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. A Thousand Days(…)