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PURITAN VILLAGE by Sumner Chilton Powell. 215 pages. Wesleyan...
...award of the Pulitzer Prize for history this month startled many historians and most publishers simply because the winning book and its author were almost unknown. In fact, Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village had almost gone unpublished: scholarly presses, including Harvard, had turned it down as "too specialized" before it was accepted by Wesleyan in Connecticut. With its $15 price tag, many bookstores had not bothered to stock it; hardly more than 1,000 copies had been sold; immediately after the Pulitzer announcement the book was almost unobtainable...
...Columbia board of trustees, which picks the winners. Some of the other arts-and-letters awards, though, testified to a painstaking search for merit. The history award went to Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, a book that was rejected by two publishers before Author Sumner Chilton Powell found a printer. Powell fielded his prize with special gratitude. He hoped, he said, that it might help him on his newest project: finding a suitable...
Other awards were as follows: General Non-fiction--Richard Hofstadter, professor of American History at Columbia, for Anti-Intellectualism in America. History--Sumner Chilton Powell for Puritan Village. Poetry--Louis Simpson for At the End of the Open Road. Merriman Smith, White House correspondent for United Press International, received the prize for national reporting for his coverage last November 22 of the assassination of President Kennedy. No prizes were given, for fiction, music, or drama this year
...confident that it will do much to contribute toward the advancement of the high objectives which it so eloquently urges upon American public opinion."--Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State...