"and departs, followed by the rest of the officers, leaving Keefer alone in the room. Keith is assigned to a new ship commanded by De Vriess. Uncredited Roles May Wynn is the last surviving primary cast member. Herman Wouk had already adapted his novel as a stage play, ""The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial"", which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for more than a year. The play was directed by Charles Laughton and was a critical as well as a commercial success. Wouk was initially selected to write the screenplay, but director Dmytryk thought his work was not successful."
"remarked that if they did not like this one, he had better take up another line of work (a line he would give to the character of the editor Jeannie Fry in his 1962 novel ""Youngblood Hawke""). The novel, ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1951), went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. A best-seller, drawing from his wartime experiences aboard minesweepers during World War II, ""The Caine Mutiny"" was adapted by the author into a Broadway play called ""The Caine Mutiny Court Martial"" and, in 1954, Columbia Pictures released a film version with Humphrey Bogart portraying Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queeg, captain"
"producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1954), a critical and commercial success. The second highest-grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars. Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Dmytryk was born on September 4, 1908, in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada. His Polish-Ukrainian immigrant parents were Frances (Berezowski) and Michael Dmytryk, a severe disciplinarian who bounced between jobs as truck driver, smelter worker, and motorman. the family moved to San Francisco,"
"1952, when it was replaced by ""My Cousin Rachel"". It moved back to first place on May 25, 1952, and remained another 15 weeks, before being supplanted by ""The Silver Chalice"", and last appeared on August 23, 1953, after 122 weeks on the list. In 1954 Columbia Pictures released the film ""The Caine Mutiny"" starring Humphrey Bogart as Queeg in a widely acclaimed performance that earned him the third and final Academy Award nomination of his career. After the novel's success, Wouk adapted the court-martial sequence into a full-length, two-act Broadway play, ""The Caine Mutiny Court Martial"". Directed by Charles"
"direct a trio of low-budget films for Kramer's company, who released through Columbia: ""The Sniper"" (1952), ""Eight Iron Men"" (1952) and ""The Juggler"" (1953) with Kirk Douglas. In between he directed a short film for the United Jewish Appeal, ""Three Lives"" (1953). Kramer then selected Dmytryk to direct Humphrey Bogart and Van Johnson in ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1954), a World War II naval drama adapted from Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which proved to be a great critical and commercial success for Columbia Pictures. It was the second highest-grossing film of the year, and in 1955 received Oscar nominations for"
"of the incidents and plot details are autobiographical. Like both Keefer and Willie, Wouk rose through the ship's wardroom of ""Zane"" from assistant communications officer to first lieutenant, and then was executive officer of ""Southard,"" recommended to captain the ship home to the United States at the end of the war before it was beached at Okinawa in a typhoon. ""The Caine Mutiny"" reached the top of the ""New York Times"" best seller list on August 12, 1951, after 17 weeks on the list, replacing ""From Here to Eternity"". It remained atop the list for 33 weeks until March 30,"
"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"
"'52). Novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates received the award in 2003, while poet Seamus Heaney won it in 2004. The 2005 honorees were Umberto Eco, the novelist, and Roger Angell, the New Yorker fiction editor and baseball writer. In 2006 Ian McEwan received the award; Margaret Atwood followed in 2007. In 2009 Louise Erdrich was honored, and in 2010 poet W.S. Merwin received the award. Historian, essayist and critic Simon Schama was the winner in 2011. Author and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel received the honor in 2012. In 2013 the poet Carl Phillips received the award, followed"
"Katherine Warren Katherine Warren (July 12, 1905 – July 17, 1965) was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in the 1949 film ""All the King's Men"", the 1951 film ""The Prowler"", and the 1954 film ""The Caine Mutiny"". She appeared in over 30 films and dozens of television programs including the TV series ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" and ""Bonanza"" (1960-1973) and the films ""Jailhouse Rock"" (1957), ""The Glenn Miller Story"" (1954), ""All the King's Men"" (1949), and as the mother of Ensign Willie Keith in the big-budget war drama ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1954). Her"
"Mutiny (1952 film) Mutiny is a 1952 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was produced by the King Brothers Productions and based on a story by Hollister Noble; the two parties also collaborating on ""Drums in the Deep South"". During the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall has to run the blockade of the US coast being operated by the British, in order to collect a war loan obtained from France, which is being paid in gold bullion. His first mate is Ben Waldridge, a former Royal Navy captain who was cashiered by the Navy. Waldridge has"
"jury for the 1955 Pulitzer Prize, but John Hohenberg convinced the Pulitzer board that William Faulkner was long overdue for the award, despite his submitted novel ""A Fable"" being a lesser work of his, and the board overrode the jury's selection, much to the disgust of its members. ""The Last Hunt"" was made into a 1957 movie. Milton Lott Milton Lott (1916 – 1996) was an author of western novels. He grew up in the Snake River Valley, in Idaho and attended University of California, Berkeley. While there he started writing his first published novel, ""The Last Hunt"". He worked"
"influential that it secured his place in literary history. After Ellison's death in 1994, a second novel, ""Juneteenth"" (1999), was pieced together from the 2,000-plus pages he had written over 40 years. A fuller version of the manuscript was published as ""Three Days Before the Shooting"" (2010). The Civil Rights time period also saw the rise of female Black poets, most notably Gwendolyn Brooks, who became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize when it was awarded for her 1949 book of poetry, ""Annie Allen"". Along with Brooks, other female poets who became well known during the 1950s"
"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"
"movie legend."" For the 27th Academy Awards the film received nominations for Best Picture (won by ""On the Waterfront""), Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart, losing to Marlon Brando for ""On the Waterfront""), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Tully), Best Screenplay, Best Sound Recording (John P. Livadary), Best Film Editing, and Best Dramatic Score (Max Steiner), but won no awards. Dmytryk was also nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. The Caine Mutiny (film) The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American film. A fictional Navy drama set in the Pacific during World War II, it was directed"
"Stillman (1848), photographer and author; Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1856), author of ""The Hashish Eater""; Andrea Barrett (1974), winner of the National Book Award (for ""Ship Fever"") and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction; and David Markson (1950), author of titles such as ""The Ballad of Dingus Magee"". Other notable Union alumni include: Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1946) winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine;Henry Wager Halleck (1837) chief of staff for the Union Armies during the Civil War; William F. Fox (1869) Superintendent of Forests at Adirondack Park; Howard Simons (1951), managing editor of ""The Washington Post"" during"
"John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery Row"" (1945), the multi-generation epic"
"famous. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. The Southern Renaissance in the 1920s had been preceded by a long period after the Civil War during which Southern literature was dominated by writers who supported the Lost Cause. Yet the critical spirit that characterized the Southern Renaissance did have roots in the era that preceded it. From the 1880s onwards, a few white Southern authors, such as George Washington Cable and Mark Twain (considered a Southern writer because he grew up in the slave state of Missouri and set many of his writings in the South) challenged readers"
"1952, which starred Gary Cooper (Academy Award, Best Actor) and Grace Kelly. The adapted screenplay by Carl Foreman was nominated for an Academy Award. His sister Julia Cunningham was an author of children's literature. John W. Cunningham John Marshall Cunningham (July 28, 1915 – June 4, 2002) was an American author who wrote a number of Western novels and stories as ""John W. Cunningham"" or ""John M. Cunningham."" During the Second World War, he served in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific. While living in Santa Barbara, California, he became a published novelist. He moved to Ashland, Oregon in"
"National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery"
"Oxford bank, establishing a scholarship fund to help educate African-American teachers at Rust College in nearby Holly Springs, Mississippi. The government of France made Faulkner a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1951. Faulkner was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for what are considered ""minor"" novels: his 1954 novel ""A Fable"", which took the Pulitzer in 1955, and the 1962 novel, ""The Reivers"", which was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer in 1963. (The award for ""A Fable"" was a controversial political choice. The jury had selected Milton Lott's ""The Last Hunt"" for the prize, but Pulitzer Prize Administrator Professor John Hohenberg convinced"
"overruled by the advisory committee, which elected not to give a drama award at all. The two members of the jury, John Mason Brown and John Gassner, subsequently resigned in protest. An Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the controversial play was released in 1966 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". According to the New York Times, Albee was ""widely considered to be the foremost American playwright of his generation."""
"States for Schools"" (co-author Andrew C. McLaughlin, 1911) and ""India in Ferment"" (1923). He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for History in 1930 for ""The War of Independence"". Claude H. Van Tyne Claude Halstead Van Tyne (October 16, 1869 – March 21, 1930) was an American historian. He was a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. He taught history at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1930 and wrote several books on the American Revolution. He won the Pulitzer Prize for ""The War of Independence"" in 1930. Van Tyne was born in Tecumseh, Michigan, to Lawrence"
"the signing say it encouraged testimony. It was generally supported in the industry. Filming started 20 June 1951. Mutiny (1952 film) Mutiny is a 1952 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was produced by the King Brothers Productions and based on a story by Hollister Noble; the two parties also collaborating on ""Drums in the Deep South"". During the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall has to run the blockade of the US coast being operated by the British, in order to collect a war loan obtained from France, which is being paid in gold bullion. His"
"""Death of a Salesman"". Dubbins succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-three. His remains laid to rest in Greer, South Carolina's Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Don Dubbins Donald George Dubbins (June 28, 1928 – August 17, 1991) was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953) and ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1954). Actor James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, ""These Wilder Years"" and ""Tribute to a Bad Man"". In the former,"
"Conrad Richter Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel ""The Town"" (1950), the last story of his trilogy ""The Awakening Land"" about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His novel ""The Waters of Kronos"" won the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction. Two collections of short stories were published posthumously during the 20th century, and several of his novels have been reissued during the 21st century by academic presses. Conrad Michael Richter"
"Bruce Catton Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history, featuring interesting characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses. Although his books were researched well and included footnotes, they were not generally presented in a rigorous academic style. He won a Pulitzer Prize during 1954 for ""A Stillness at Appomattox"", his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia. Charles Bruce Catton was born"
"and threatened by an angry white mob; this and other photos of the day's startling events were circulated around the US and the world by the print press. The most famous photo of the event was taken by Will Counts of the ""Arkansas Democrat"". His image was the unanimous selection for a 1958 Pulitzer Prize, but since the story had earned the ""Arkansas Gazette"" two other Pulitzer Prizes already, the Prize was awarded to another photographer for a pleasant photograph of a two-year-old boy in Washington, D.C. A different photo taken by Counts of Alex Wilson, a black reporter for"
"reported on a range of social, political and economic issues in the South, including segregated schools and other conditions. His work preceded by more than a decade John Howard Griffin's similar investigation, reported in Griffin's book ""Black Like Me"". Ray Sprigle Ray Sprigle (August 14, 1886 in Akron, Ohio – December 22, 1957) was a journalist for the ""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"". He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his reporting that Hugo Black, newly appointed to the US Supreme Court, had been a member of the 20th-century Ku Klux Klan. His account of traveling in 1948 for 30 days and"
"and Robert P. T. Coffin were born in Maine. Poets Stanley Kunitz and Elizabeth Bishop were both born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Oliver La Farge, a New Englander of French and Narragansett descent, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, the predecessor to the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1930 for his book Laughing Boy. John P. Marquand grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Novelist Edwin O'Connor, who was also known as a radio personality and journalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Edge of Sadness."
"apartment in Paris. She died on October 9, 2014 in Sonoma, California due to effects of dementia. Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. According to an article at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, ""Kizer reach[ed] into mythology in poems like ""Semele Recycled""; into politics, into feminism, especially in her series of poems called ""Pro Femina""; into science, the natural world, music, and translations and commentaries on Japanese and Chinese literatures""."
"and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."" Of the 16 poets, Graves was the only one still living at the time of the commemoration ceremony. UK government documents released in 2012 indicate that Graves turned down a CBE in 1957. In 2012 the Nobel Records were opened after 50 years, and it was revealed that Graves was among a shortlist of authors considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, along with John Steinbeck (winner), Lawrence Durrell, Jean Anouilh and Karen Blixen. Graves was rejected because even though he had written several historical novels he was"
"who refused to bow to racist convention or were innocent bystanders, unsuspecting victims of random violence. Among the more notorious murders by Klan members in the 1950s and 1960s: There was considerable resistance among African Americans and white allies to the Klan. In 1953, newspaper publishers W. Horace Carter (Tabor City, North Carolina), who had campaigned for three years, and Willard Cole (Whiteville, North Carolina) shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service citing ""their successful campaign against the Ku Klux Klan, waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger, culminating in the conviction of"
"at Carleton College's opening convocation in Northfield, Minnesota. Kai Bird Kai Bird (born September 2, 1951) is an American author and columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures. He won a Pulitzer Prize for ""American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer"". Bird was born in 1951 in Eugene, Oregon. His father was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, and Bird spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo, and Mumbai. His father named him after Kai-Yu Hsu, a refugee from Communist China he met at the University of Oregon. Kai means ""mustard"" in Chinese. Bird finished"