Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

significant. This is the main reason Wills wrote James Madison. A brief background about the author is in order. Garry Wills lives in Evanston, Illinois, but was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1934. He is an author, journalist, and historian and attended Saint Louis University, Xavier, and Yale. He has written almost forty books and countless other reviews and literary works. He is a prominent Roman Catholic layperson and has written about his religion and church positively and negatively. He is highly honored with many awards, his most notable being a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1993. He is a talented, author and one of the major intellectual figures of our time. The main theme of James Madison that Wills is attempting to help his audience understand more of is Madison’s presidency. His presidency, according to Wills, has been undermined in historical writings and Wills believes his book remedies this dilemma. In general, the book does the job Wills intended for it to do. Two of the three sections of Wills’ book are stories of Madison’s presidential career, which includes 97 of the 153 pages of the book (around 63 percent). The beginning of James Madison focuses on Madison’s political career before his presidency, which is necessary to explain some of Madison’s actions as president. Wills spends little time on this subject, however, devoting only three chapters to this topic. The three chapters are broken up by Madison’s political career before the…

insects for each human being. Scientists have discovered that there are more than nine hundred thousand different kinds of insects; insects also represent about eighty percent of the world’s species. Recently, soil samples were taken from an acre in North Carolina; it was revealed that in that one acre, with the depth of five inches, there were approximately 124 million creatures to be found. These facts serve as a reminder that the world is close to bursting with these tiny beings, yet we as…

Hello and welcome to Columbia University’s’ Pulitzer Prize Awards Night. Every year we gather here to acknowledge and celebrate America’s excellence in Journalism and Arts. The Pulitzer Prize has been around since 1917 and was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher with a keen eye for politics and journalism. Through his legacy and grant to Columbia University, Pulitzer was able to start up this internationally admired honour given annually to the best of the best. With twenty-one…

Although she did not complete her law degree, she “later was awarded an honorary degree by … The 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…”…

Prejudism is Real “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite,” said Nelson Mandela, civil rights activist. This quote explains the prejudism going on in To Kill a Mockingbird because there’s judging going on with everyone and the young kids in the story don’t see why it happens because…

Scott Momaday. Morrison is a modernist; realist and fiction writer who redefine and reform the way African Americans writers were looked upon during 1945 era. Morrison did not allow society to dictate how she would write her stories. She was poise, confident, bright and a brilliant writer with the novels and followers to prove it. Moreover, there are some similarities in both narratives. The first encounter, Recitatif is a short story where to friends (Roberta and Twyla) meet at a psychiatric…

African Americans. The town perceives him to be a drunk when in fact he isn 't, he just pretends to be to avoid public scrutiny for his choices. By doing this he avoids the problem and basically leaves it Ensign 3 for someone else to solve. In Where is the Love when the singers say, “Can you practice what you preach?/ And would you turn the other cheek?,” (20-21) it also refers whether you’ll face the problem head on. In current times it 's a lot easier to speak up about certain problems then…

When taking a look back on social concepts of the 60s the words music, drugs and culture are often at the foreground of one’s thoughts. This was a diverse and booming era for many bringing upon the uprising of a new class. Although this truth is recognizable without looking past the surface, taking a deeper look at social aspects uncloaks the seemingly ever changing times then, proving them to be consistent with issues we recognize today. This is strongly displayed in the novel A Confederacy…

It was 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…

Mockingbirds, known for their lovely music and existence, are a true gift. The sweet sounding tweet they bring is amazing, mockingbirds, do not bring any harm. These magnificent birds stay out of the farmers silos, also, they take care of the damaging insects in the soil. In the story," To Kill a Mockingbird," Atticus Finch tells Jem And Scout, "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Jem and Scout learn that they shouldn't harm a animal or person if they haven't brought harm to them. Later in the…