Tag: Pulitzer Prize

(AURN News) — As the nation pauses this Memorial Day to honor the fallen, it is important to remember a piece of…

(AURN News) — On May 1, 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book “Annie Allen,” becoming the first…

On August 12, 1990, American playwright August Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Piano Lesson,” one of the ten plays in his…

On April 18, 1977, author and historian Alex Haley received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for his groundbreaking novel “Roots: The Saga…

Novelist and activist Alice Walker was born on this day in 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Emerging from the segregated South, Walker’s experiences…