Tag: pulitzerprize
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June 17, 2016 at 02:31PM
Lunchtime #drawing: James Agee wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, ‘A Death in the Family’ while he lived at 17 King Street from the 1940s until his death in a NYC cab by heart attack in 1955. This circa 1830 Federal style house is part of the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District. #NicksLunchboxService #JamesAgee #KingStreet #PulitzerPrize #CharltonKingVandamHistoricDistrict…
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May 21, 2016 at 04:58PM
Lunchtime drawing: Poet Mark Van Doren, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1940 for ‘Collected Poems 1922–1938’, lived at 393 Bleecker Street in the 1920s. Back home in New York for a quick pit stop before continuing on to Arizona and the Grand Canyon. Stay tuned—and there might be a few days with…
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August 25, 2015 at 01:44PM
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived at 75 ½ Bedford Street (only 9 and ½ feet wide), now partially under scaffolding from the building next door. She was the 1923 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry with “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A…