1975 - 1987
All books in the Pulitzer Prize Classics as published by the Franklin Library were bound in full genuine leather with decorative end papers.
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Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis - 1975 - (Pulitzer Prize 1926)
Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes - 1976 - (Pulitzer Prize 1931)
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury - 1976 - (Pulitzer Prize 1960)
A Fable by William Faulkner - 1976 - (Pulitzer Prize 1955)
In This our Life by Ellen Glasgow - 1976 - (Pulitzer Prize 1942)
Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson - 1976 - (Pulitzer Prize 1935)
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor - 1976 - (Pulitzer Prize 1956)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - 1976 - (Pulitzer Prize 1937)
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron - 1976 - (Pulitzer Prize 1968)
Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1927)
One of Ours by Willa Cather - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1923)
Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1936)
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1965)
The Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1930)
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1961)
A House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1969)
Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1943)
The Store by T. S. Stribling - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1933)
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1919)
The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson - 1977 - (Pulitzer Prize 1924)
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1949)
So Big by Edna Ferber - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1925)
Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1944)
Lamb in His Bossom by Caroline Miller - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1934)
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1962)
Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1929)
The Town by Conrad Richter - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1951)
Angle of Reprose by Wallace Stegner - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1972)
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk - 1978 - (Pulitzer Prize 1952)
A Death in the Family by James Agee - 1979 - (Pulitzer Prize 1958)
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie - 1979 - (Pulitzer Prize 1950)
His Family by Ernest Poole - 1979 - (Pulitzer Prize 1918)
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - 1979 - (Pulitzer Prize 1975)
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford - 1979 - (Pulitzer Prize 1970)
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington - 1979 - (Pulitzer Prize 1922)
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor - 1979 - (Pulitzer Prize 1959)
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson - 1980 - (Pulitzer Prize 1978)
Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams - 1983 - (Pulitzer Prize 1919)
Humbolt's Gift by Saul Bellow - 1983 - (Pulitzer Prize 1976)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - 1983 - (Pulitzer Prize 1932)
Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren - 1983 - (Pulitzer Prize 1939)
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton - 1983 - (Pulitzer Prize 1954)
The Reivers by William Faulkner - 1983 - (Pulitzer Prize 1963)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 1983 - (Pulitzer Prize 1940)
Our Town and The Skin of our Teeth by Thornton Wilder - 1983 - (Pulitzer Prize 1938 - 1943)
Across the wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1948)
Fire in the Lake by Frances Fitzgerald - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1973)
Profiles in courage by John F. Kennedy - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1957)
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1972)
The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1938)
Collected poems of Marianne Moore - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1952)
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1939)
Three plays by Robert E. Sherwood - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1936 - 1939 - 1941)
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1963)
All the King's men by Robert Penn Warren - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1947)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - 1984 - (Pulitzer Prize 1921)
The Flowering of New England by Van Wyck Brooks - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1937)
Stories of John Cheever - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1979)
So Human Animal by Rene Jules Dubos - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1969)
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1953)
The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh -1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1954)
Admiral of The Ocean Sea by Samuel E. Morison - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1943)
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1980)
Two plays by Eugene O'Neill and Marc Connelly - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1928 - 1930)
Complete poems of Carl Sandburg - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1951)
The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1946)
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1982)
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - 1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1973)
The Bridge San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder -1985 - (Pulitzer Prize 1928)
John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1929)
Paul Revere by Esther Forbes - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1943)
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1945)
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplin - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1967)
Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1957)
Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1982)
Edith Wharton a Biography by R.W.B. Lewis - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1976)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1967)
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1948)
Three plays by Miller, Macleish and Albee - 1986 - (Pulitzer Prize 1967)
Americans and the Democratic Experience by Daniel Boorstin - 1987 (Pulitzer Prize 1974)
Poems of Robert Frost - 1987 - (Pulitzer Prize 1931)
The Collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter - 1987 - (Pulitzer Prize 1966)
Making of a President 1960 by Theodore H. White - 1987 - (Pulitzer Prize 1962)
Two Plays of Tennessee Williams - 1987 - (Pulitzer Prize 1948 - 1955)
The Pulitzer Prize /ˈpʊlɨtsər/ is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer in the year 1917 and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation
History
The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the university's journalism school in 1912. The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and they are now announced each April. Recipients are chosen by an independent board. Ironically, Pulitzer, along with William Hearst, was one of the originators of yellow journalism.Several of the more famous recipients of the Pulitzer Prize include Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee and Toni Morrison for Fiction; Robert Frost for Poetry; Roger Ebert for Criticism; and Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Stephen Sondheim for Drama.
Notable winners of more than one Pulitzer Prize include David McCullough (twice) for Biography; Robert Frost (four times) for Poetry; Eugene O'Neill (four times), Edward Albee (three times), and August Wilson (twice) for Drama; and William Faulkner (twice), Norman Mailer (twice), John Updike (twice), and Booth Tarkington (twice) for Novel / Fiction. (This category's name was changed in 1948 from Novel to Fiction.)
Both Eugene O'Neill and Booth Tarkington accomplished the feat of winning the prize twice in a four-year period. Thornton Wilder is notable for winning prizes in more than one category—one in the Novel category and two in the Drama categories.
Categories
Awards are made in categories relating to newspaper journalism, arts, and letters. Only published reports and photographs by United States-based newspapers or daily news organizations are eligible for the journalism prize. Beginning in 2007, "an assortment of online elements will be permitted in all journalism categories except for the competition's two photography categories, which will continue to restrict entries to still images."Pulitzer Prize category definitions are:
- Public Service—for a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic resources, which may include editorials, cartoons, and photographs, as well as reporting. Often thought of as the grand prize, the Public Service award is given to the newspaper, not to individuals, though individuals are often mentioned for their contributions.
- Breaking News Reporting—for a distinguished example of local reporting of breaking news.
- Investigative Reporting—for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single newspaper article or series.
- Explanatory Reporting—for a distinguished example of explanatory newspaper reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing, and clear presentation.
- Local Reporting—for a distinguished example of local newspaper reporting that illuminates significant issues or concerns.[3]
National Reporting—for a distinguished example of newspaper reporting on national affairs.
- International Reporting—for a distinguished example of newspaper reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence.
Audio Reporting
- Feature Writing—for a distinguished example of newspaper feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality.
- Commentary—for distinguished commentary.
- Criticism—for distinguished criticism.
- Editorial Writing—for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clarity of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction.
- Editorial Cartooning—for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect.
- Breaking News Photography, previously called Spot News Photography—for a distinguished example of breaking news photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence, or an album.
- Feature Photography—for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence, or an album.
There are six categories in letters and drama:
- Fiction—for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
- Drama—for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.
- History—for a distinguished book on the history of the United States.
- Biography for a distinguished biography by an American author.
- Memoir or Autobiography – for a distinguished and factual memoir or autobiography by an American author.
- Poetry—for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
- General Non-Fiction—for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.
There is one prize given for music:
- Pulitzer Prize for Music—for a distinguished musical contribution by an American that had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.
There have also been a number of Special Citations and Awards.
In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer travelling fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
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