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Pulitzer Prize For Biography
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author." Award winners receive US$15,000. From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. It is one of the original Pulitzers. The program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. Recipients In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962. 1910s-1940s 1950s-1970s 1980s Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year. 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Repeat winners Ten people have won the Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher. Prizes in 2024 were awarded in these categories, with three finalists named for each: Each winner receives a certificate and $15,000 in cash, except in the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Public Service category, where a gold medal is awarded. History Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will (law), will to Columbia University to launch Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a journalism school and establish the Pulitzer Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships. He specified "four awards in journalism, four in literature, letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships". Updated 2013 by Sig Gissler. After his death on October 29, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Immigrant To Inventor
''From Immigrant to Inventor'' is an autobiography by Mihajlo Pupin that won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Description Pupin's book chronicles a lifelong journey of a boy from rural Serbia, who became one of the greatest scientists of the early 20th century. The autobiography includes Pupin's childhood years in Banat, early immigrant struggles in the New York area, undergraduate studies at Columbia University, doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge and University of Berlin, and later life as a professor and researcher at Columbia University, where he made important discoveries in the fields of X-ray physics and telecommunications. It also reflects on his experience in various scientific and technical organizations, such as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Mathematical Society, and American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related discip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1934. Events *January 7 – The first ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip is created and illustrated by Alex Raymond and published in the United States. *January 25 – James Joyce's novel '' Ulysses'', after a December acquittal (upheld on appeal in February) in '' United States v. One Book Called Ulysses'', is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House of New York City. It has 12,000 advance sales. *January – B. Traven's novel ''The Death Ship'' (''Die Totenschiff'', 1926) first appears in English. *February – Stefan Zweig flees Austria and settles in London. *February 6 – The February 6 riots in France, partly provoked by a performance of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus'' by the Comédie-Française, will become the focus of a cult in the works of far-right authors, notably '' Death on Credit'' by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1936) and ''Gilles'' by Pierre Drieu La Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 In Literature
Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the German Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1932. Events *March – Captain W. E. Johns' character Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as an English World War I pilot in the short story "The White Fokker", in the first, April, issue of ''Popular Flying'' magazine, edited by Johns. The first Biggles collection, ''The Sopwith Camel, Camels Are Coming'', ensues in April. *April 23 – To mark Shakespeare's birthday: **The Royal Shakespeare Company's Royal Shakespeare Theatre, new theatre opens at Stratford-upon-Avon. **The Folger Shakespeare Library opens in Washington, D.C. *April 26 – The 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane, in a state of alcoholic depression, throws himself overboard from the ''USS Orizaba, Orizaba'' between Mexico and New York; his body is never recovered. *May – The first issue appears of the English journal of literary criticism ''Scrutiny (journal), Scrutiny: a quarterly review'', edited by F. R. Leavis. *June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1931. Events *January 10 – A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's ''Al Aaraaf, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems'' and first editions of ''The Scarlet Letter'' and ''Moby-Dick'' are stolen from New York Public Library by Samuel Dupree, on behalf of a crooked New York antiquarian book dealer, Harry Gold. *January 26 – The play ''Green Grow the Lilacs (play), Green Grow the Lilacs'' by Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs, opens on Broadway theatre, Broadway. It is later adapted as ''Oklahoma!'' by Rodgers and Hammerstein. *March 27 – The English novelist Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London, shortly after a visit to Paris, where he drank local water in an attempt to prove it was safe. *April 11 – Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey make a form of marriage in Rome. *June 1 – The ''Near v. Minnesota'' case in the Supreme Court of the United States affirms the principle that prior restraint is unconsti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1930. Events *January 6 – An early literary character-licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, giving Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works. *February – The Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the Irish Free State. Among the first 13 books banned (announced in May) are '' Point Counter Point'' by Aldous Huxley, '' The Well of Loneliness'' by Radclyffe Hall and several on sex and marriage by Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes. *February 23 – Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (''Im Westen nichts Neues'', 1929) is banned in Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick. *March 19 – Paul Robeson plays the title role of ''Othello'' at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. *May 6 – The Collins Crime Club is launched as a crime fiction imprint by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1929. Events *January 10 – ''The Adventures of Tintin'' begin with the first appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero in ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets)'', serialized in the children's newspaper supplement ''Le Petit Vingtième''. *February–August – Voltaire's ''Candide'' ( 1759) is held to be obscene by the United States Customs Service in Boston. *February – The first of Margery Allingham's crime novels to feature Albert Campion, '' The Crime at Black Dudley'' (U.S. title: ''The Black Dudley Murder''), is published in the UK. *March – Norah C. James's first novel, ''Sleeveless Errand'', is held to be obscene on publication in London, for its portrayal of the city's bohemian life. An edition appears later in Paris from Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press. *April 1 – The Faber and Faber publishing company is founded in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1928. Events *January **The Soviet magazine ''Oktyabr (magazine), Oktyabr'' begins publishing Mikhail Sholokhov's novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' («Тихий Дон», ''Tikhiy Don'') in instalments. **Ford Madox Ford publishes ''Last Post (novel), Last Post'' in the U.K., as the last in his World War I tetralogy ''Parade's End'', which has been appearing since 1924 in literature, 1924. *January 16 – The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, London. Pallbearers include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. Meanwhile, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma Gifford, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset. Later in the year, his widow Flore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and literary realism, realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection ''Leaves of Grass'', which was described by some as obscene for its overt sensuality. Whitman was born in Huntington, New York, Huntington on Long Island and lived in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At age 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. He worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, ''Leaves of Grass'', first published in 1855, was financed with his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt to reach out to the common person with an American epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927. Events *January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo. *February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the ''Académie des femmes'', an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris ''salon''. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien. *February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre ''(Theatre Masque)'' opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan. *May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel ''To the Lighthouse'' is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism, *June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, (; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first Residency (medicine), residency program for specialty training of physicians. He has frequently been described as the ''Father of Modern Medicine'' and one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope". In addition to being a physician he was a bibliophile, historian, author, and renowned practical joker. He was passionate about medical libraries and medical history, having founded the History of Medicine Society (formally "section"), at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He was also instrumental in founding the Medical Library Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and the (North American) Association of Medical Librarians (later the Medical Library Association) along with three other people, including Margaret Ridley Charlton, Margaret Charlton, the medical librari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
