This supplement volume documents the complete history of the development of the awards in the category drama. The presentation is mainly based on primary sources from the Pulitzer Prize Office at the New York Columbia University. The most important sources are the confidential jury protocols, reproduced completely as facsimiles for the first time in this volume, and providing detailed information about each year's evaluation process.

The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presentsthe history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A toE the awarding oftheprize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to thedecisions.

Many Pulitzer Prize-winners in the theater award category started their international careers right from Broadway. Among the laureates were dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill who earned four awards. Double prize-winner Tennessee Williams was praised for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Thornton Wilder's plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth were successful, as well as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Edward Albee's Three Tall Women or Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy represent the younger generation of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights. This book takes a look at many...

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting in African countries by American journalists has been a latecomer within the award category for international coverage. It took close to two decades after the establishment of the awards that reporting about the Italian-Ethiopian crisis was declared prize-worthy by the Pulitzer Prize jurors. During World War II, prizes were given for the coverage of the North African battlefields. Since the 1960s, inner-African conflicts, like unrest in the Congo, impressed the jurors, as well as writings on the Apartheid system in South Africa. This book contains a selection...

From birth to death, this book illustrates manymoving events in the United States, as reflected in Pulitzer Prize-winning photos. Key Images of American Life includes examples of heroic undertakings, romantic episodes, brutal encroachments, depressing attitudes, as well as encouraging actions. (Series: Pulitzer Prize Panorama - Vol. 9) Subject: U.S. Studies, History, Media Studies, Photography]

This book examines Asian-related, Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage from leading American newspapers. Contents include: (1932) About Quarrels and Aggressions of Japan * (1941) The Growing Strategic Role of Singapore * (1945) The Final War Days and the Surrender of Japan * (1948) The Hard Way to Sovereignty of India * (1950) Early Fighting during the War in Korea * (1963) First Phase of the Bloody War in Vietnam * (1966) The Main Decision Makers for North Vietnam * (1966) The Change of Government in Indonesia * (1971) East Pakistan on the Way to Bangladesh * (1975) The Communists' Strange Rule...

This volume contains Europe-related historical essays from Pulitzer Prize-winning books about topics ranging from the Nineteenth Century up to the post-communist era of our times, including aspects of the First and the Second World War, the German Jews under pressure and portraits of autocratic Russian leaders like Kremlin Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is professor emeritus at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. Subject: History, Military History, Literature]

This volume contains 126 caricatures, drawn by Pulitzer Prize Winners from the Editorial Cartooning award category. Ranging from the early 1920s up to the present, the drawings explain important phases of world history over a span of more than 90 years. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is professor emeritus at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. (Series: Pulitzer Prize Panorama, Vol. 12) Subject: Media Studies, Politics, History]