Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

August 21, 2017 Pulitzer Prize Judging Board Columbia University 709 Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway New York, NY USA 10027 Dear Pulitzer Prize Judging Board: The Old Man and the Sea by American author, Ernest Hemingway deserved the Pulitzer Prize it received because of the author 's use of craft elements, the realness of all of the characters and events, and the lasting themes that are relevant to the year it was written that were created by this realness, which in turn created a legacy. The first

What is that one day we wait for all year? Well of course, our birthday. We all wait for that special day that is our birthday. Our birthday is that one special day that lets us know we are getting older. We get older each year we reach our birthday, but have we wondered what happened the day of our birth? I have also wondered what happened on November 30,2000. The number one thing i know that happened on November 30 is that I was it was my birth day. I was born on November 30 of the year 2000

awesome books and movies, but one impressive fact about Alice is that she is a poet, novelist, short writer and an essayist. Walkers book called “The Color Purple” won her the National Book Award and The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Most of her book are best sellers. Walker began publishing her fiction and poetry during the latter years of the Black arts movement in the 1960s. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen copies.Walker has

Throughout the book, The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway uses a writing style known as stream of consciousness which entails using uninterrupted thoughts and feelings of the main character. This writing style shows through the character Santiago while he is at sea. Santiago talks to himself which essentially correlates to how he feels at that moment. The usage of the technique stream of consciousness engages the reader into how the character feels during that moment making the reader connected to

to get to know the character. The book was the opposite you would expect to see in a normal book. Walker tested the rules of literature by using colloquial language and awful spelling to ale the book stand out. I believe that the book is realistic fiction because it’s a lot alike how things were back in the day. The main character was Celie she was the protagonist and the narrator of the story. Shug Avery was Celie’s lover and without her would probably not be able to stand up for herself. The character

She was a successful writer who influenced many while she was alive and even after she died. Her two published books were successful, especially her pulitzer prize winner To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper was a very humble and wise woman who withheld many of the characteristics her main character Atticus had in her novel. It's said that her pulitzer prize winning book was mainly by events from her childhood. Lee was the youngest of her family’s four children. She survived her brothers Edwin’s death

survive. The Color Purple was an immediate success due to its simple writing style, the intricate storyline, and compelling characters. In 1983 The Color Purple was recognized for these very reasons and graciously awarded The Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. Every year several Pulitzer Awards are handed out to distinguished

Saul Bellow wrote many novels; one of his novels “Leaving the Yellow House” is about an elder woman who lives in a yellow house and is incapable to take care of herself. Her neighbors tell her that they will help her only in return for her house. The Rolfe’s are the only neighbors that really care about Hattie and do not want her house in return. “Leaving the Yellow House” was one of Saul Bellow’s most known short story. When Bellow was young he was hospitalized for a while. The time he spent in

1951, and published in 1952, the novel was the last of Hemingway’s novels to be published during his lifetime. The book was praised by critics, and became an immediate success. The story was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and was a factor in Hemingway winning a Nobel Prize. The story was published after Across the River and into the Trees, a Hemingway novel that was almost universally panned by critics. The Old Man and the Sea bolstered Hemingway’s somewhat tarnished reputation

Introduction Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist, poet, and feminist who most famous for authoring The Color Purple. Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She worked as a social worker, teacher, and lecturer, and took part in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Family Life Alice, the youngest daughter of eight, lived in sharecropper 's family where she grew up poor. Her mother worked as a maid to help support the family 's eight children