When was the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction established?
The Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction was first awarded in 1962 to Theodore H. White for The Making of the President 1960.
The Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction was first awarded in 1962 to Theodore H. White for The Making of the President 1960.
Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for The Second World War.
The thirty-second piece Breath by Samuel Beckett has no actors and no dialogue.
The riddle of the Sphinx is as follows: “What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night?” the Sphinx asks Oedipus, the hero of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex (426 B.c.). Oedipus answers that it is man (crawling as an infant, walking erect as an adult, and walking with…
Ernest Hemingway’s first book was Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923); it was published in France in a small edition. His first book published in the United States was In Our Time (1925), an expanded edition of the version published in France in 1924.
Emerson’s idea of “the soul of the whole” appeared first in the essay, “The Over-Soul,” included in his First Series (1841).
In act 1, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s father says she “hath not seen the change of fourteen years”, making her thirteen.