Story Of The Pulitzer Prizes In Letters 1917 2000

Download or read book Story of the Pulitzer Prizes in Letters 1917 - 2000 written by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains background information about the development of Pulitzer Prizewinning book awards from 1917 - 2000. The fact-oriented literature categories were called "History", "Biography or Autobiography" and "General Nonfiction", while the areas of Belles-Lettres are represented by award groupe like "Novel", "Fiction" and "Poetry". Thanks to the availability of the confidential Jury Reports it was possible to reconstruct the decision-making processes within the evaluating committees.