Pulitzer Prize for the Novel

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…

The Impact of Harper Lee Harper Lee is considered to be one of the most adept and brilliant writers of the 20th century because of her controversial novels that expose the American south for its dark reality and its prejudiced people. Go set a Watchman, continues a story from Lee’s first book --To Kill a Mockingbird -- and incorporates topics of race and class in society. The piece also continues the clashing ironic themes of great change and lack of change. Although the book created dissension…

Who would have thought that the mot famous author of the 1960s and Pulitzer Prize winner would have ended up never marrying? Who will she leave her fortune to? This author was Harper Lee, a famous writer even today; she was a Modern/Post-Modern author known for basing her renowned novel To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set A Watchman on her childhood. Her novels were able to depict the despairing and terrible events of the 1930s, by using real-life events, symbols, and themes. Lee reveals the…

3) The author of eleven novels, the most famous being Beloved in 1987, along with countless other works in both fiction and nonfiction, Toni Morrison has received virtually every prize achievable for a writer, including, in 1993, the Nobel Prize for Literature. This excerpt is the prologue to her very first novel, The Bluest Eye, written in 1970. Observe her choice of a banal storybook text, its mutation, and then the stark summary of the events that will unfold in the novel. Discuss how you…

To Kill a Mockingbird Acceptance “ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). Atticus is trying to teach Scout the importance of not judging people on their choices, but to try and understand the intentions behind their actions. “He wants Scout and Jem to be able to look past the color of people’s skin, their wealth, gender, and to understand the situations they're in, and the problems…

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…

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…

Harper Lee’s classic and somewhat autobiographical novel, To Kill a Mockingbird has been extremely successful and wildly popular among people of all ages from the year it was first released. As a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the coming-of-age story was eventually adapted into a film which went on to win an Academy Award. The timeless story follows the childhood years of a young girl named Scout Finch, as she starts school, investigates a curious neighbor with her brother and best friend, and…

Expressing Communication Through Literary Devices in “Araby,” “Why I Live at the P.O,” and “Hills Like White Elephants Authors use literary devices in order to convey a certain attitude, feeling, or meaning to the story. Literary devices, when used effectively, create layers and intricacies to stories that not only make the stories more interesting, but also give the stories much more depth that can be studied. James Joyce’s “Araby,” Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and Ernest…

The top novels to read this fall Fall is the perfect time to start thinking about new books that you want to read. Publishers release their heavy hitters in the fall as a lead up to Christmas sales, and this year there are some excellent choices to choose from. Be sure to pick up these top novels this season, and of course gift them to your friends! Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Celeste Ng is the author of Everything I Never Told You, and fans of her work have been eagerly awaiting…