Pulitzer Prize T-Shirts

Joseph Pulitzer born József Pulitzer was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic horrors. The wide appeal reached a million copies a day and opened the way to mass-circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue (rather than cover price or political party subsidies) and

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John Steinbeck wrote realistically and compassionately about ordinary people and their daily struggles during the Great Depression. Hollywood made movies based on his novels. He won Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. John Ford put on a big screen Steinbeck's masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, and won Oscar for Best Director. These are just some highlights from a long and successful career.

With this image, we celebrate American poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, the winner of the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote about American South and had a significant success with it. In 1942, she won the Pulityer Prize for her novel In This Our Life.

Edward Albee was an essential American playwright whose early works were influenced by the European theater of absurd. One of his famous plays, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf, was turned into an Academy Award-winning movie by famous Mike Nichols. Albee won three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and two Tony Awards.

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Sara Teasdale ( 1884 - 1933) was an American lyrical poet and the first woman who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Sara Teasdale ( 1884 - 1933) was an American lyrical poet and the first woman who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Susan Glaspell and her husband, George Cram Cook, were the founders of the Provincetown Players, the first American theater company. Ms. Glaspell was a playwright, novelist, journalist, and actress, always socially engaged. She is also one of the pioneers of American feminism.

With this picture, we celebrate American modernist poet Marianne Moore, the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize.

he son of Irish immigrants, who went through rough times, rose to become one of the twentieth century's best American playwrights. Following the path of Chekhov and Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill chose realism as his way of expression. Long Day's Journey into the Night, his most famous play, is still performed worldwide. O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times, and in 1936 the Nobel Prize in Literature.

he son of Irish immigrants, who went through rough times, rose to become one of the twentieth century's best American playwrights. Following the path of Chekhov and Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill chose realism as his way of expression. Long Day's Journey into the Night, his most famous play, is still performed worldwide. O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times, and in 1936 the Nobel Prize in Literature.

If i got rid my demons, i'd lose my angels.

American poet Robert Frost worked a farm in his younger years, and nature became the stage of his poetic contemplations. Frost was a four times Pulitzer Prize winner!

American modernist Wallace Stivens wrote contemplative poetry delivered through crystal clear imagery. In 1955, Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Elizabeth Bishop was American poet and short story writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956.

Philip Roth was a famous American novelist and short story writer. Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel American Pastoral.

"Renascence" was a title of one of the early poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), American poet and playwright. She was a part of the bohemian lifestyle of Greenwich Village and didn't fit into mainstream society. In 1923, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

American poet, author and teacher. Won Pulitzer Prize for poetry in May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen. She was the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.