Word: distinguishedness
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In addition, Maxine Hong Kingson received the distinguished contribution to American letters accolade while Barney Rosset took home the literarian award.
Last year's fiction winner, Denis Johnson's 624-page Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), for example, was a critical darling and Pulitzer finalist, that, like those first NBA winners, failed to top bestseller lists. And in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the fiction award for his 500-page...
He is a vision of serenity. Set against the opulent decor of the lobby of the Inn at Harvard, he is dressed simply in a grey robe and matching pants, a crisp white collar clasped around his neck. Thick bifocals perch gracefully on his nose. Two tufts of snowy-white...
Adams returned to his alma mater last night for the second time since 2007 to discuss his setting to music of Walt Whitman’s poem “The Wound Dresser,” in the company of two of Harvard’s most distinguished professors: University...
“It’s so arresting to me to hear his reaction to [“The Wound Dresser”] and his rendition of it,” Faust said after the performance. “He is one of Harvard’s most distinguished...