Their American Dream by Danné E. Davis

“…In 1983 Black feminist, scholar, and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker termed “colorism” as “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their [skin] color”. …”
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Centennial reflections on Steinbeck's reputation in Slovenia by Danica Čerče

“…Appropriate enough, and given that this year marks the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth, celebrated with a year-long series of events taking place throughout the United States and paying tribute to the winner of the 0. Henry Short Story Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize for Literature by examining his legacy in American literature, film, theatre and journalism, and providing new information about the enduring value of his writing, this paper aims to capture the writer's reputation in Slovenia. …”
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A Campus Novel, a Picaresque Novel and a Double Bildungsroman: Reconsidering Michael Chabonʼs Wonder Boys by Petr Anténe

“…While Chabon later seemed to follow Yardley’s advice in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000), an ambitious historical novel which earned him the Pulitzer Prize, this paper aims to reconsider Wonder Boys by drawing on its previous criticism and analyzing it as an amalgam of the campus novel, the picaresque as well as both Grady’s and James’s Bildungsroman. …”
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Telaah sosiokultural naskah drama death of a salesman karya Arthur Miller by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…First, the play Death of A Salesman was Arthur Miller's masterpiece that brought him to the winner of Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Antoinette Award, the Theatre Club Award, and the Front Page Award. …”

The Believer’s Gambit: Roman Catholicism and Mobility in Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Laura Michiels

“…Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning (2019) achieved a rare consensus in that it received lavish praise from critics on both sides of the political divide. A finalist for last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the play introduces us to four young Catholic conservatives, who return to their former college in Wyoming to celebrate the inauguration of their mentor as its president. …”
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Nihilation of femininity in the battle of looks: a Sartrean reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A temporary matter” by Asl, Moussa Pourya, Hull, Simon Peter, Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah

“…Specifically, this essay focuses on Lahiri’s prefatory story to her Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (2000), to unravel the manner her exercise of vision in this narrative perpetuates the dichotomies of a male subject and a female object pre-established in the traditional hierarchies of gender in the West. …”
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On the Human Being and Being Human in Jonathan Franzen’s Strong Motion and Freedom by Hanaa Ismael Saad Abdul Munim

“…His career was launched with the publication of Corrections, which won the National Book Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His follow-up, Freedom, received so much attention that it began a debate about the politics of critical attention.  …”
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The Use of Land in Momaday’s House Made of Dawn and Silko’s Ceremony by Shamsad Mortuza

“…The recognition and accolades from the mainstream for these two writers of ethnic origins are tinged with possibilities of patronization: Momaday is the first male and Silko is the first female American Indian authors to receive Pulitzer Prizes. Their recognition in the late sixties and early seventies can be justified in terms of the general swinging mood after the Civil Rights Movement. …”
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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission): Briefing on Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing Toward a Unified Future Thursday, July 18, 2019

“…Journalist and author, Douglas Blackmon, wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book on this in 2008, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of African Americans from the Civil War to World War II. …”
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