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The Wichita Eagle This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating Kansas history. The series� name comes from the state motto, Ad astra per aspera: �To the stars through difficulties.� C.D. Batchelor�s most famous cartoon came in 1937 when the world...
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For starters, the book won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. An added plus: Olive Kitteridge is a woman in her 70s, which ties in with MorseLife's mission — caring for the elderly. "Authors love it when people are excited about their book," Pappas...
Tags: MorseLife Literary Society, Alice Pappas, New York City, Pulitzer Prizes, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize, Entertainment Culture, Netherland
Jack Nelson, a former Pulitzer Prize -winning reporter and Washington bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times who brought finely honed investigative skills to his coverage of the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal, died early Wednesday at...
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Nan Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote a landmark book on gender discrimination, has died of heart disease...Robertson died Tuesday at Collingswood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rockville, Md., The Washington Post reported.
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Elena Seibert John Updike Harvard University has acquired the archives of John Updike , the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard alumnus who died in January, The Boston Globe reported . Mr. Updike, a member of Harvard’s Class of 1954, whose works...
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Michael McKean, left, as a ’60s radical turned cynic and Jon Michael Hill as a young man with big ideas and a troubled past . When Tracy Letts first showed his softer side with “Superior Donuts” at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, America had yet to plunge...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died...His assistant Rosemary Shields says Safire died Sunday morning at a Maryland hospice...Safire spent more than 30 years writing...
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This year’s Southern Women Writers Conference will be headlined by two Pulitzer Prize winners — poet Natasha Trethewey and playwright Marsha Norman. The conference takes place Sept. 24 to 26 at Berry College and showcases the work of established as well...
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On Monday, USA Today ran a front-page article on the soon-to-be-released book chronicling a series of secret interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch held with President Bill Clinton throughout the Clinton presidency.
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Mr. Carter well represented what Tom Brokaw called 'the greatest generation,'" said Deuce Niven, associate publisher and editor of the Tribune. Born on Jan. 20, 1921, in Albemarle, in Stanly County, Carter graduated from the University of North Carolina...
Tags: University of North Carolina, Horace Carter, pulitzer prize, newspaper publisher, Wilmington