Pulitzer Prize

first established in 1917,which is also when the first award was given. It began when “Joseph Pulitzer, known as one of the greatest newspaper publishers in U.S. history, established the award as part of his will” ("Pulitzer Prizes Fast Facts."). There are currently twenty-one categories. Authors from online newspapers are not allowed to enter. However, online presentations are allowed. To win the Pulitzer Prize, one’s paper is preferably about American life, published the previous year of the…

The Borrowers by Mary Norton is a classic novel that does not get dated with time. “Marcus Crouch comments that, ‘of all the winners of the Carnegie Medal [awarded annually by the British Library Association to the best children's novel of the preceding year], it is the one book of unquestioned, timeless genius’” (Stott). The Borrowers was published in 1952 has continued to be read throughout the following years. This book is still in print and is still being read even sixty years after it was…

Robin Williams was known for being one of the greatest American actors and comedians. Watching Williams either onstage, the television, in his movies, or in one of his serious interviews, just listening and watching the actor is an extraordinary experience. He had a big impact on many people in this world, and many were devastated to see him go. Many memorials were dedicated to him and his death was an American tragedy. Despite the appearance of a successful career, Robin Williams suffered from…

Robert Frost was a professor, a American poet and a four time Pulitzer prize winner who is responsible for many popular works including “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, After Apple-Picking”, and “The Road Not Taken”. Frost is known for publishing many books made up of collections of poems and one of his most well-known works “The Road Not Taken”, is one of Frost’s most familiar poems. In the poem, Robert Frost looks at the choices one has in life, how one decides which choices are better, and what are…

American writers, regarded tremendously around the world and produce many of the great novels written. In order to write a good novel, there must be a great author who knows how to manipulate words and phrases to set the mood and let the reader understand how characters feel on a deeper and more personal level; in addition, a great author must also be able to deliver theme across to the reader so the reader can understand what the meaning of the story is, and two of those great authors are…

“Mending Wall” was first published in 1914 in the second collection of Robert Frost. The poem brings out the comparison of two different kinds of people with different personalities which in this poem are neighbors. The two neighbors have different perspectives regarding the fence but they annually meet and repair the wall once it's destroyed by nature every spring. The speaker believes that the wall is not important but he's the one who initiates the repair of the fence. The neighbor keeps on…

When the unrivaled American author John Steinbeck took home the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, he had concluded his writing career with one final major work he had published a few months earlier: Travels with Charley: In Search of America, a log of his 1960 tour of the continent in an attempt to rediscover America. At age fifty-eight, he was nearing the end of his writing career and, ultimately, his life as well. As a piece of nonfiction, Travels with Charley serves as a love letter to…

Ernest M. Hemingway An extraordinary author was once quoted saying, “There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” This author is none other than Ernest Miller Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway was an American writer that began his career at the age of seventeen. He was in World War I, and after he came back, he became a reporter for both American and Canadian newspapers. His writing was mostly during the post-war Depression Era. Hemingway was born July 21,…

Marsha Norman Marsha Norman’s work shows a raw clarity that exhibits pain in all its various forms, a true to life depiction of the life that goes on around us. Through my research into her work, I have discovered that she is a playwright I truly love, I just hadn’t known it yet. Her talents span different styles of theatre and she creates a resounding truth in her works that reach out and grab the audience by the heart. It is through her skillfully constructed text and heart wrenching…

University of Alabama School of Law.” (“Harper Lee” 1). This, along with her sister, Alice, (who became a lawyer) helped to educate her in regards to the knowledge of law, and essentially aided her in writing her award-winning novels (Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird). Her roots and her family background inspired many facets of her writings. For example, Lee’s father…” served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1927 until 1939, and was the model for Atticus Finch.”…