Pulitzer prize biography 2012 ford
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The year 2012 was a tremendously controversial moment for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It quite literally rocked the literary world since 2012 was the first year since 1977 that no award for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was issued, despite the three Fiction Jurors offering a trio of quality recommendations to the Board (previously in 1977 the Pulitzer Board denied Norman MacLean the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, A River Runs Through It).
The Pulitzer Board’s denial of a Prize to anyone in 2012 came at their annual press conference in April 2012 and was met with surprise and dismay.
Pulitzer prize biography 2012 ford
It was the first time in 35 years the Board decided to not issue a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. What’s more, the Board has continued to maintain secrecy about its deliberations, a long-standing tradition of the Pulitzer Prizes.
The three Fiction Jurors in 2012 were: Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of TheHours which won the Pulitzer in 1999; Maureen