Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beloved--the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a Black slave woman and her child--shows the emotional side of slave women, a subject Jones said many historians are reluctant to investigate. But she added that studying this aspect of slave culture makes it easier to understand the institution of slavery as a whole...
...Board, which technically must approve all decisions made by the seven-member Corporation, has always had its share of prominent members. John F. Kennedy '40 served on the Board while he was president, and current overseers include Senator Albert J. Gore '69 (D-Tenn.) and Pulitzer Prize-winner Frances FitzGerald...
...commercial flop, but his second, Midnight's Children (1981), created an international sensation. The book hinged on an inspired conceit: that 1,001 babies born across the subcontinent on the stroke of Indian independence had acquired magical powers to communicate with one another. Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction, and sold roughly half a million copies worldwide...
Rushdie's next novel, Shame (1983), was another roistering allegory, this time refracting recent events in Pakistan. It too was nominated for the Booker Prize, but at the presentation dinner the award went to another contender. Rushdie raised eyebrows by standing up and protesting the injustice of the decision. "The thing about Salman," says an editor who knows him, "is that if he won the Nobel Prize, he would not be happy until he had won it twice...
...different set of issues arises when reporters do gain access to victims. Jacqui Banaszynski, a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, won a Pulitzer Prize last year for a lengthy series about a gay couple dying of AIDS. Privy to the most intimate details of the lives of both the men and their families, Banaszynski had to balance her sense of loyalty to her subjects against her desire to make the series as truthful as possible. "I would not print information so private that it would harm without enhancing," she says...