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The Age of Innocence – Pulitzer Prize Winner of 1921

November 27th, 2012 at 9:54pm |

Of the Pulitzers of the 1920s, Edith Warton’s “The Age of Innocence” is probably the best known, because of Martin Scorsese’s film with Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder. Also notable is that this was the first time the prize was awarded to a woman. The story takes place in New York’s high society of the […]

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Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington – Pulitzer Prize Winner of 1922

November 27th, 2012 at 9:08pm |

I got to skip 1920 because there was no winner chosen that year. 1921’s winner was Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence” which I borrowed as audio book, but I am not done with it yet. I did finish “Alice Adams” though, which I managed to snag as a free Kindle download from Amazon.com. It was another story that […]

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