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...Harvard history professor last week won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for biography...
...highly acclaimed biography "Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe" earned David H. Donald, Warren Professor of American History, his second Pulitzer Prize...
Donald's Pulitzer also marks the second time in two years that a senior Harvard history professor has won the prestigious prize, which is awarded annually for excellence in journalism, fiction and non-fiction. Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn last year won his second Pulitzer in the history category for "Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution...
...native Mississippian, Donald specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras and has been at Harvard since 1973. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for his work "Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil...
When reporters and editors are not busy comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, as the saying goes, they are probably meeting somewhere to honor each other for having done so. By the reckoning of the trade magazine Editor & Publisher, more than 250 journalism prizes now reward every specialty from criticizing art to writing on arthritis. For all the glut of awards, though, the Pulitzer Prize remains the one trophy able to bestow a career-boosting mystique that glows past retirement on a newspaper reporter's resume. Like the Oscar, a Pulitzer is good for business, instantly improving the reputation...