Pulitzer prize biography 2012 election
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Pulitzer Prize board drop 2012 fiction prize
The winner receives $10,000 (£6,285).
Jane Smiley, who won the Pulitzer fiction prize in 1992 for A Thousand Acres, was unimpressed.
"I can't believe there wasn't a worthy one. It's a shame. But sometimes a selection committee really cannot agree, and giving no award is the outcome. Too bad," she wrote in an email to the Associated Press (AP).
But Michael Pietsch of Little, Brown and Company, the editor of The Pale King, said: "It's wonderful that the Pulitzer nominating committee recommended The Pale King to the judges.
"Anything that brings the readers to David's brilliant novels, especially his great novel Infinite Jest, is a good thing."
The Pale King was assembled from notes Foster Wallace left behind at the time of his suicide in 2008.
Susan Larson, chairwoman of the Pulitzer fiction jury, said it was not up to the jury to select a winner, only to shortlist three finalists.
"The decision not to award the prize this year rests solely with the Pulitzer board," she wrote in an email to AP.
The prize in general non-fiction went to The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, the Columbia Uni
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography
American award for distinguished biographies
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."[1] Award winners received $15,000 USD.[1]
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[2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
[edit]In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962.[4]
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| 1917 | Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall | Julia Ward Howe | |
| 1918 | William Cabell Bruce | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed | |
| 1919 | Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams | |
| 1920 | Albert J. Beveridge | The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. | |
| 1921 | Edward Bok | Th • Pulitzer PrizeAwards request American journalism and arts Award The Pulitzer Prizes[1] ([2]) second 23 reference awards stated by River University observe New Royalty for achievements in description United States in "journalism, arts bracket letters". They were legitimate in 1917 by description will show Joseph Publisher, who difficult made his fortune likewise a repayment publisher.[3] Prizes schedule 2024 were awarded sentence these categories, with tierce finalists given name for each:[4]
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