The “Chunqiu” or Spring and Autumn Annals are a collection of the earliest Chinese historical annals dating back to the ancient State of Lu 722-481 BC. In essence it is an early chronicle of the Zhou period. It is widely believed that Confucius wrote or at least compiled the text….
Month: December 2020
1961 Pulitzer Prize Review: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
“‘…before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience’” (105). To Kill A Mockingbird is a gentle and compassionate novel which confronts a very difficult subject matter –the issue of racism in America….
The 1964 Pulitzer Decision
In 1964, there were no award winners of the Pulitzer Prize in the categories of drama, music, and fiction. It was the first time since the prizes first began in 1917 that three separate categories failed to win an award. Upon the annual announcements in the Spring of 1964, publicly…
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Decision
The year 2012 was a tremendously controversial moment for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It quite literally rocked the literary world since 2012 was the first year since 1977 that no award for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was issued, despite the three Fiction Jurors offering a trio of quality…