Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When several publishing houses reject a manuscript by a Nobel Prize-winner like Saul Bellow, it's a sure sign that something is wrong. But I was optimistic as I began reading his new novella A Theft, convinced that I would discover an overlooked masterpiece. Unfortunately, all those publishing houses were not wrong...
John Updike couldn't always get the words out. Ever since childhood Pulitzer Prize-winning author has had a stuttering problem. And although the speech defect has not stopped him from making his thoughts known in the long run, it did as a child...
...endless voyage"; safely ashore at Sydney Cove, he marvels that he has been at sea for nearly a year. In fact, the trip has taken much longer than that. William Golding first shoved Talbot off dry land in Rites of Passage (1980), which went on to win the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction. After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the author got back to Talbot's story in Close Quarters (1987). Fire Down Below completes Talbot's memoirs and provides a glimpse of the older man who wrote them. He has evidently done...
...homeschooling certainly hasn't handicapped the Colfaxes' intellectual achievement. Grant is currently in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship and plans to attend Harvard Medical School in the fall. A magna cum laude graduate in biology, Grant won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis...
Norman Mailer, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author...