Story of the Pulitzer Prizes in Letters 1917 - 2000

This volume contains background information about the development of Pulitzer Prizewinning book awards from 1917 - 2000. The fact-oriented literature categories were called History, Biography or Autobiography and General Nonfiction, while the areas of Belles-Lettres are represented by award groupe like Novel, Fiction and Poetry. Thanks to the availability of the confidential Jury Reports it was possible to reconstruct the decision-making processes within the evaluating committees. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.