What novel won the first Pulitzer Prize?
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.
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The E.H. in E. H. Shepard stands for Ernest Howard. Shepard illustrated A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books (1926-28) and the 1931 edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908).
When did Dr. Seuss die?
Theodor Seuss Geisel known as Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991, at age eighty-seven. Dr. Seuss had written about fifty books that sold more than 200 million copies. His last book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go (1990), was still on the bestseller list when he died.
What does Sartor Resartus mean?
The title of Carlyle’s 1833-34 satire on German philosophy Sartor Resartus means “the tailor retailored” in Latin. It comments on the work of the fictitious Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, philosopher of clothes.
Who did Jo March marry in Little Women (1868-69)?
Jo March married an elderly German professor named Mr. Bhaer in Little Women.
Who created Roderick Usher?
Edgar Allan Poe Roderick Usher, in “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).
How old is Benjy in Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury (1929)?
The retarded narrator of the first section of the Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury is thirty-three years old. Faulkner asked that Benjy’s stream of consciousness be printed in eight different colors of type to better express the layers of Benjy’s memory. The request was not granted.