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Pulitzer Prize: Awards
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Parks already had won two Obies (best off-Broadway play awards), a MacArthur "Genius" award, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for "In The Blood" (1999) for plays that dissect the black experience in collision with a white man's society. Her inventive catalog of characters includes an African-American man who works as an impersonator of President Abraham Lincoln ("The America Play"), a Hottentot woman kept in a cage as a sideshow curiosity ("Venus"), and a homeless mother with five children by five different fathers ("In The Blood").
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Gelbspan states in his biography that he had "won a number of awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1984," while working at the Globe. In publicizing the book, Addison-Wesley repeated that claim, and it was picked up in press releases by Fenton Communications, Greenpeace, Sustainable Minnesota, and other environmental advocacy groups.
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Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of stories that exposed huge college admissions advantages enjoyed by some privileged white students and helped reshape the national debate on affirmative action. Here are the articles that were submitted for the award:
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Sollberger believes that the Pulitzer Prize is very important as "something that keeps composers before the public and raises all of us in the field." He was dismayed to find out about the four years in which Pulitzers were not awarded. Having served on the jury many times, he recalls that the difficulty in selecting a single work is not finding one that is worthy, but in selecting it from all the great works submitted.
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In this exhibit, you can read online the complete text of books that have won major literary prizes, like the Newbery Award, the Nobel Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. The books listed below are either out of copyright (at least in the US), or are online with the permission of the copyright holder.
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Jean-Marc Bouju shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography with three photojournalists with the Associated Press. The team was awarded the prize for its coverage of the devastating ethnic violence in Rwanda.
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