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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1938. The prizes were announced on May 2, 1938, at the annual alumni dinner of the Columbia University School of Journalism. [1] They were presented by university president Nicholas Murray Butler and dean Carl W. Ackerman. [1] The announcement was broadcast nationally on the NBC Red Network. [1]
1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. On May 2, 1938, Thornton Wilder won the prize of $1,000 "for the original American play. . .which shall represent in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage, preferably dealing with the American life." [28] 1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist (and occasional actor in his own plays.) He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
It takes a great deal of work to make the ordinary enticing, but that’s precisely what director Kenny Leon does in his production of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning “Our Town.”
He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public. Shoemaker started his career at the Chicago Daily News and spent 22 years there, and was the chief cartoonist between 1925 and 1952. His 1938 Pulitzer cartoon for the paper was The Road Back, featuring a World War I soldier marching back ...
It was the second time (following his 1938 Pulitzer Prize) that Krock had won the Prize for an exclusive interview with a sitting president—which was exceedingly rare and a contravention of unwritten rules of engagement between a President and the press pool. At the time, it was viewed as a scandal among the White House press. [15]
It won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for History. [1] [2] [3] References This page was last edited on 30 October 2024, at 23:07 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Pages in category "Pulitzer Prizes by year" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total. ... 1938 Pulitzer Prize; 1939 Pulitzer Prize; 1940 ...