"Dragon's Teeth", one of 11 novels featuring Lanny Budd, won this muckraker the Pulitzer Prize for 1942
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Dragon's Teeth | Open Road Media  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: Lanny Budd faces the unstoppable tide of Nazi ... Winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Dragon's Teeth brilliantly ... A World to Win ... Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! ... a muckraking expos of American journalism; and the eleven novels in the...
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Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair  Reviews, Discussion ...  Dragon's Teeth was the 1942 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. ... This is apparently the 3rd of 11 novels about the main character, Lanny Budd. ..... Pulitzer 1943 - This book is a real tough one for me to rate. .... And yet it won the Pulitzer. ... In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking expos of American...
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Dragon's Teeth (novel) - Wikipedia  The novel Dragon's Teeth, written in 1942 by Upton Sinclair, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943. Set in the period 1929 to 1934, it covers the Nazi takeover of Germany during the 1930s. It is the third of Upton Sinclair's World's End series of eleven novels about Lanny Budd, a socialist, art expert, ... Lanny Budd was one of those millions engulfed in the century's tragedy,...
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Revisit to Old Hero Finds He's Still Lively - The New York Times  Jul 22, 2005 ... There were 11 volumes in all, covering the first half of the 20th century in ... These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible ... "Dragon's Teeth," third in the series, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. ... So it was with trepidation that I returned to Lanny Budd last January. .... Vichy -- 1940 to 1942.
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Upton Sinclair - Wikipedia  Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878  November 25, 1968) was an American writer of nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. ..... The third book in the series, Dragon's Teeth (1942), won the Pulitzer Prize for...
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Gary Younge on Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle | Books ...  Aug 4, 2006 ... Gary Younge on why Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle ... "Not since Byron awoke one morning to find himself famous has there been ... and muck-raker became a term of endearment in praise of dogged, investigative journalism. ... "I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the...
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Birth of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman ...  Early in her career, Barbara Wertheim's job was clipping and filing ... Fiction  Journalism  Memoirs  Non-Fiction  Plays  Poetry  Publishing ... January 30, 1912 ... for The Nation during the Spanish Civil War and the build up to World War II. ... the American Experience in China, 1911-45, which won another Pulitzer Prize,...
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Samuel Spade | Pechorin's Journal  Jul 31, 2015 ... Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the ... Wilmer is a gunsel, a term that today because of this book and the film...
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Brief Biography of Pearl S. Buck | Department of English  Pearl was the fourth of seven children (and one of only three who would survive to ... the best-selling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the...
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A Bell for Adano by John Hersey  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs ...  An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the .... This book was published in 1944 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in ..... Hersey's 1944 novel well deserved the 1945 Pulitzer Prize. ..... It is both a period piece describing the Allied occupation of a Sicilian beachhead town/city during the first...
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1953 Pulitzer winners included Ernest Hemingway - Poynter  May 4, 2015 ... The prizes were announced on May 4, 1953, and the news media soon reported that Hemingway's book, "The Old Man and the Sea," earned...
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The Big Apple: Muckraker  Jan 18, 2010 ... President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) gave his address, The Man ... The term muckraker was first used in a speech on April 14, 1906 by ... MUCK n.1 + RAKER n.1 In sense 2 after MUCKRAKE v. .... TR was repeating a phrase he had found successful at the Gridiron Club dinner of March 17, 1906.
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The Gin Game by DL Coburn: Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Mike ...  Winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize, the Best Production Award from the Los Angeles ... is a tougher sort, a failed businessman who now keeps himself busy playing cards. .... Actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy were exceptional in this play.
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A controversial Pulitzer Prize brings Edith Wharton and Sinclair ...  Jun 28, 2011 ... In June 1921 Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. ... glad that now it's happened, the suggestion comes from the author of Main Street. ... The Age of Innocence); Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt ... The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to...
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Booth Tarkington | Reading the Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction  1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington ... Second of all, Alice Adams is less racist. ... thought similarly, because Sherman never again served on the Novel jury after 1922. Thus Booth Tarkington won his second of two Pulitzer Prizes in the Novel Category, becoming ... 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington.
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jaws - Search-ID.com  ... Amity Island fisherman in this 1974 novel; Fish chows down on visitors at Long Island resort; gets harpooned; eats pursuer; Actor Richard Kiel "chewed up" the...
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The Pulitzer Prizes | General Nonfiction  2010 David E. Hoffman The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms ... 1989 Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in ... 1973 Frances Fitzgerald Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam ... A remarkable work of nonfiction storytelling that exposes the cascade of...
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1953 Pulitzer Prizes Won By Hemingway and 'Picnic'  1953 Pulitzer Prizes Won By Hemingway and 'Picnic' ... in 1950, won the $500 drama award for a play that he set in his native Kansas. Now running at the Music Box, "Picnic" had previously won the prize of the Drama Critics Circle. ... Both The World-Telegram and The Sun had won previous Pulitzer awards, but this was...
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William Inge - Wikipedia  William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, Picnic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. ... In 1953, Inge received a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic, a play based on women he...
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Story of the joad family in grapes of wrath - Verde y Carbn  A 1939 novel by John Steinbeck, winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. ... Wrath Summary discuss John Steinbeck's story of the Joad family's journey to the promised...
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A snub of Edward Albee - The Pulitzer Prizes  The late, great playwright won three Pulitzers, none of them for 'Who's Afraid of ... won for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975) and Three Tall Women (1994). ... Gassner's verdict was even more positive, for he wrote: Although Mr. Albee's ... The terms of the Drama Prize still were: For the American play, preferably...