Essays Tagged: "Pulitzer Prize"
Art Spiegleman
's Death Camps. Then, in 1991, he published Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, which earned him a Pulitzer prize for both volumes.BiographyArt Spiegelman was born on February 15, 1948, in Stockholm, ... morable works he had ever read, won America's premier award for literature for Maus I & II, the Pulitzer Prize, in 1992.MausHaving learned in film class in college that in early animated cartoons, ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Opinion and Commentary to "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara
he Killer Angels, Mr. Shaara's historical accuracy is unquestionable. He has written this fabulous (Pulitzer Prize winning) novel. Although the heroic suicidal charge of the 10th Minnesotans on the se ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
An in-depth review of Sylvia Plath and her poem, "Point Shirley".
es in 1971, despite the protests of her family. Plath's Collected Poems, published in 1981, won the Pulitzer Prize.Throughout her short life, Plath loved the sea. She spent many of her childhood years ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
To kill a Mockingbird (Film Review)
tating disease. One lone soul is prepared to make the diagnosis. An adaptation based on the classic Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, "To Kill A Mockingbird" is a legendary movie, uniquely s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
o Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 then it went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film.Harper Lee always consi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Schlisinger's canon vs. my high school's canon
there are usually lists of books thought as being essential reading. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--a Pulitzer Prize winning historian--calls this list in his book The Disuniting of America, a 'canon' o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Ernest Hemingway
e of the most famous American writers in this century. He had earned many rewards such as Nobel and Pulitzer Prize for his tremendous contribution in literature. For many years, his novels and stories ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Toni Morrison: Bathed in Tradition
n the writing community, as she is both the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature as well as the Pulitzer Prize, the top honor a writer may receive. She writes about race and other contemporary iss ... l as the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award (Bolden 164). In 1987 she won the Pulitzer Prize, one of her most cherished awards for her work on Beloved. Then in 1993, Toni Morriso ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Gettysburg Movie Review
Gettysburg, Ronald F. Maxwell's re-telling of four hot days during the summer of 1863 (based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara), is a spectacle that gathers power ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
A discussion into the nature and function of the character 'Beloved' In Toni Morrison's book of the same name.
Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning book is a masterfully written tale. Beloved begins in the late 1800's in Cinc ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Biography of Ernest Hemingway
and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. This novel also won the Pulitzer Prize award. III. July 21st, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born. He was born to DR Clarence Ed ... Man and the Sea was Hemingway's second entry in his triad about land, seas, and air. It got him the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1954, the greatest literary award of all, the Nobel Prize. Hemingway had thre ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Transformation of America by Revolution.
In order for a Pulitzer Prize to be granted to an individual, an unbelievable and almost impossible event must occu ... s creation on an already existing event, the American Revolution. In his famous book, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1993, Wood interprets the Revolution's affect on the American colonies ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, a book about man's inhumanity to man, or a story about courage and hope?
book, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', is one of society's most treasured examples of writing. It has won a Pulitzer Prize, amongst other prestigious writing awards, and has sold more than 30 million copies w ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.
st lady of Southern literature" and the "literary voice and soul of the South."In 1973, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel "The Optimists' Daughter."Her first major published work wa ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A comparison between the novel and movie, "The Grapes of Wrath".
o its vulgar language. However, Steinbeck's novel is considered to be his greatest work. It won the Pulitzer Prize, and later became an Academy Award winning movie in 1940. The novel and the movie are ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
This is a biography on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
amily was the most important thing to her. Awards and honors came to Rawlings easily, including the Pulitzer Prize. The Yearling, her most successful and well-known novel, stayed on track with her oth ... Letters awarded her membership. The Yearling showed itself prosperous for Rawlings, earning her the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and the Lewis Carol Shelf Award in 1963. Honorary degrees present ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Ernest Hemingway and the Pulitzer Prize.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to twenty-one deserving individuals each year. Joseph Pulitzer was a rever ... the top of the ladder to become an ambitious newspaper publisher. In 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his book, The Old Man and the Sea. This seems very appropriate becaus ... must write very factual statements and must not put in too much explanation about one thing. Since Pulitzer was a journalist, he would have probably given his award to Hemingway himself if he were al ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Color Purple: Film
ted black woman who struggled for empowerment. The book grew popular worldwide, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. As a result, a movie (by the same name) was released two years later. The mo ... le this with a solid plot full of extremely detailed characters and you get a classic. After all, a Pulitzer Prize doesn't lie.
Subjects: Humanities Essays
She's Got A Way. Details the style of Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird".
ople growing up in the South during the 1930's. Lee's unique style turns "just another book" into a Pulitzer prize-winning masterpiece, and perhaps one of the greatest American novels. Lee's novel was ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"To kill a mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
tating disease. One lone soul is prepared to make the diagnosis. An adaptation based on the classic Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, "To Kill A Mockingbird" is a legendary movie, uniquely s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis