"Ernest Hemingway was selected by the 1941 and 1953 juries, but the former was overturned and no 1941 award was given. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. (No Novel prize was"
"Dalloway"" (1925), ""To the Lighthouse"" (1927), and ""The Waves"" (1931). Her essay collection ""A Room of One's Own"" (1929) contains her famous dictum; ""A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"". But while modernism was to become an important literary movement in the early decades of the new century, there were also many fine novelists who were not modernists. This include E.M. Forster ((1879–1970), John Galsworthy ((1867–1933) (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"", Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"", and H. G. Wells"
"A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (""tenente"") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist George Peele. The novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable"
"in 1940, extracted the title of his famous novel ""For Whom The Bell Tolls"":<poem> 'No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ' </poem> Many translations in magazines such as: James S. Holmes James Stratton Holmes (Collins, May 2, 1924 - Amsterdam, November 6, 1986) was a Dutch poet and translator. He was born in the United States, in Collins, Iowa,"
"the far-flung locations associated with Hemingway, and a two-page tabular summary of Hemingway's life. Michael Palin starts the book by telling of his own introduction to Hemingway's writing, reading ""A Farewell to Arms"", ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", and ""The Old Man and the Sea"" when he was only 13. But a fascination with Hemingway's authorship is not necessary to appreciate this trip, as it can be simply considered to be an exciting trip following in the footsteps of an exciting person. The trip was done in 1999, 100 years after Hemingway's birth in 1899. The text of this book"
"1942, Ingrid Bergman was brought in to replace ballerina Vera Zorina as the female lead—a change supported by Cooper and Hemingway. The love scenes between Bergman and Cooper were ""rapturous"" and passionate. Howard Barnes in the ""New York Herald Tribune"" wrote that both actors performed with ""the true stature and authority of stars"". While the film distorted the novel's original political themes and meaning, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" was a critical and commercial success and received ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Cooper's fourth). Due to his age and health, Cooper did not serve in"
"of the novel. In 1941 the Pulitzer Prize committee for letters unanimously recommended ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" be awarded the prize for that year. The Pulitzer Board agreed. However, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University ""ex officio"" head of the Pulitzer board at that time, found the novel offensive and persuaded the board to reverse its determination; no award was given for letters that year. The novel takes place in late May 1937 during the second year of the Spanish Civil War. References made to Valladolid, Segovia, El Escorial and Madrid suggest the novel takes place within the"
"Joyce creates parallels with Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. William Faulkner's ""The Sound and the Fury"" (1929) is another significant modernist novel, that uses the stream of consciousness technique. Novelists who are not considered modernists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932) whose works include a sequence of novels, collectively called ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); and E.M. Forster's (1879–1970), though Forster's work is ""frequently regarded as containing both modernist and Victorian"
"War- (1929) and ""Behind the Lines"" (1930). Morris served in the British army during the war. ""A Farewell to Arms"" is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (""Tenente"") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of World War I, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of ""A Farewell to Arms"" cemented Hemingway's"
"finalists. Unless otherwise noted, the year represents the year the award was given for books published in the prior year. Thus, the award year 1950 is for books published in 1949. 1950: Nelson Algren — ""The Man with the Golden Arm"" 1951: William Faulkner — ""Collected Stories of William Faulkner"" 1952: James Jones — ""From Here to Eternity"" 1953: Ralph Ellison — ""Invisible Man"" 1954: Saul Bellow — ""The Adventures of Augie March"" 1955: William Faulkner — ""A Fable"" 1956: John O'Hara — ""Ten North Frederick"" 1957: Wright Morris — ""The Field of Vision"" 1958: John Cheever — ""The Wapshot"
"(1924), ""Strange Interlude"" (Pulitzer Prize 1928), ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" (1931). In poetry Hart Crane published ""The Bridge"" in 1930 and E. E. Cummings and Wallace Stevens were publishing from the 1920s until the 1950s. Similarly William Faulkner continued to publish until the 1950s and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1949. However, not all those writing in these years were modernists; among the writers outside the movement were American novelists Theodore Dreiser, Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald (""The Great Gatsby"" 1925), and John Steinbeck. Important British writers between the World Wars, include the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), who"
"hired Ernest Hemingway to cover the Spanish Civil War, who inscribed for him a copy of ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", ""To Jack Wheeler, who gave me the chance to go to war."" When he died on October 13, 1973, in Ridgefield, Connecticut, at the age of 87, his obituary in the ""Ridgefield Press"" described him as one who ""never quit newspapering, permanently, until his death."" John Neville Wheeler John Neville ""Jack"" Wheeler (April 11, 1886 – October 13, 1973) was an American newspaperman, publishing executive, magazine editor, and author. He was born in Yonkers, New York, graduated Columbia University"
"Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ""In Cold Blood"" (1966). Capote"
"been the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"". When the book was published in 1940, Goff was critical of the novelist's ignorance of guerrilla operations and the way in which war was treated from ""a romantic adventuristic point of view rather than [as] the grim, practical war that it was"". In a later interview he said: I never saw Ingrid Bergman in all the time I was in the war. If I did, I might still be there [Laughs.] The way Gary Cooper blew that bridge - like blowing a seam in a coal mine. I've"
"A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick. An earlier film version starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson) is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. While recovering from a wound"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"
"protagonists were strong, silent men who often dealt awkwardly with women. ""The Sun Also Rises"" and ""A Farewell to Arms"" are generally considered his best novels; in 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. William Faulkner (1897–1962) won the Nobel Prize in 1949, after Hitler was defeated in World War II: Faulkner encompassed an enormous range of humanity in Yoknapatawpha County, a Mississippian region of his own invention. He recorded his characters' seemingly unedited ramblings in order to represent their inner states, a technique called ""stream of consciousness"". (In fact, these passages are carefully crafted, and their seemingly chaotic"
"that the prize go to Edward Albee's ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"". He was inducted, posthumously, into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981. John Mason Brown John Mason Brown (July 3, 1900 – March 16, 1969) was an American drama critic and author. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from Harvard College in 1923. He worked for the ""New York Evening Post"" from 1929 to 1941. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, beginning in 1942. His book, ""To All Hands"", documents his activities aboard the ""USS Ancon"" (AGC-4) during Operation"
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"to have happened."" Paul Smith, author of ""Hemingway's Early Manuscript: The Theory and Practice of Omission"", believes Hemingway applied the theory of omission in effort to ""strengthen [the] iceberg"". In October 1954 Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He jokingly told the press he believed Carl Sandburg and Isak Dinesen deserved the prize more than he, but that the prize money would be welcome. The prize was awarded to Hemingway ""for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in ""The Old Man and the Sea"", and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."""
"the Spanish Civil War, He based one of his best-known novels, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" on his experiences there. Among its other notable stories was the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, which in 1947 and 1948 researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Edith Ronne, wife of the expedition leader, was a correspondent for the syndicate, posting dispatches from Antarctica for the duration of the expedition. She named a landform there, Cape Wheeler, in honour of her editor. In 1943, Ira Wolfert won an international Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting for his field reports for"
"Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include ""Brighton Rock"" (1938), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1940), ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A Burnt-Out Case"" (1961), and ""The Human Factor"" (1978). Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell whose twelve-volume cycle of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize"
"fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells"
"1955 Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the author of many articles, essays, poems, short stories and novels. Widely translated works include the expressionist novels ""Independent People"" (1934–35) and ""Iceland's Bell"" (1943–46). After World War I, there was a revival of the classic style, mainly in poetry, with authors such as Davíð Stefánsson and Tómas Guðmundsson, who later became the representer of traditional poetry in Iceland in the 20th century. Modern authors, from the end of World War II, tend to merge the classical style with a modernist style. More recently, crime novelist Arnaldur Indriðason's (b. 1961) works have met"
"won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2010s¹. They are: George and Ira Gershwin's ""Of Thee I Sing"" (1932), Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""South Pacific"" (1950), Bock & Harnick's ""Fiorello!"" (1960), Frank Loesser's ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" (1962), Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Jr., and Nicholas Dante's ""A Chorus Line"" (1976), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's ""Sunday in the Park with George"" (1985), Jonathan Larson's ""Rent"" (1996), Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's ""Next to Normal"" (2010), and Lin-Manuel Miranda's ""Hamilton"" (2016). ""Of Thee I Sing"", ""Sunday in the"
"A Bell for Adano (novel) A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels. The novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). The main character,"
"Hawks, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir. Nichols wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for films including ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""Stagecoach"" (1939), ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943), ""Scarlet Street"" (1945), ""And Then There Were None"" (1945), ""The Bells of St. Mary's"" (1945), ""Pinky"" (1949) and ""The Tin Star"" (1957). Nichols initially declined the Academy Award he received for ""The Informer"", due to a dispute between the Screen Writers Guild, of which he was a founder, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He collected the award at the 1938 Oscar ceremony. He served as president of the Screen"
"hunt or an undersea panorama. Holling C. Holling Holling Clancy Holling (born Holling Allison Clancy, August 2, 1900 – September 7, 1973) was an American author and illustrator, best known for the book ""Paddle-to-the-Sea"", which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. ""Paddle to the Sea"" won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film ""Paddle to the Sea"", based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Jackson County, Michigan, Holling graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. A number of his early works were"
"Books. Edmonds eventually published 34 books, many for children, as well as a number of magazine stories. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1960 and the Newbery Medal in 1942, for ""The Matchlock Gun"", and the National Book Award for Children's Literature in 1976, for ""Bert Breen's Barn"". When Eleanor died in 1956, Walter married Katherine Howe Baker Carr, who died in 1989. Walter Edmonds died in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1998. Walter D. Edmonds Walter ""Walt"" Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 – January 24, 1998) was an American writer best known for historical novels. One of them, ""Drums"
"Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be ""The Executioner's Song"", the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best selling books in each of the seven decades after"
"into an autocratic regime was a tragedy while Nazism was only ""devilish nihilism"". Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann (; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur"
"novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, a novel of the Spanish Civil War which he had witnessed over the previous several years, in the room in the Ambos Mundos, on March 1, 1939. Today, his hotel room, No. 511, is presented as if the author might have left it, and is a small museum in the middle of the establishment, with tours given regularly in the daytime. The corner of the ground floor hotel lobby also has two walls of framed photographs dedicated to Hemingway. In 1987, the hotel underwent some small restoration, with more complete work finalized in 1997"
"George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, Imperial police officer, and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella ""Animal Farm"" (1945) and the dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949). His non-fiction works, including ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England,"