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Anyone who ever sat through a lecture in English 140b, "The Age of Johnson," had to expect it. Last week, the awards committee down at Columbia made it official, awarding Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, a Pulitzer Prize for his massive biography, "Samuel Johnson...
...Bate, whose lectures are said to be about as close to a dinner-time conversation with the Good Doctor as any Harvard student will ever find, the Pulitzer was his second. In 1964 he garnered his first Pulitzer for a biography of John Keats...
...Bate, who teaches the popular English 140b, "The Age of Johnson," won the National Book Crities Circle Award earlier this year for the same biography, published last fall...
Harry Levin '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, added "I don't think it could be better deserved-- Professor Bate has a remarkable power of empathy which makes him a first-rate biographer...
...Bate accepted the award yesterday at ceremonies held at Carnegie Hall in New York City...