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2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Awards ranging from journalism to drama to music Related Links Pulitzer Prizes Joseph Pulitzer Biography Book, Magazine, and…

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William JaggardThomas JamesJeremiah Whipple JenksGeorg JensenNicolas Jenson William Stanley JevonsSteve JobsJohn of SpeyerEldridge Reeves JohnsonEmory Richard JohnsonHoward JohnsonTom Loftin…

Flora Lewis 2002 Deaths

Flora LewisAge: 79 journalist and writer who covered momentous world events as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, Washington Post, and other publications. Died: Paris, June 2,…

Larry Fleisher

Larry FleisherBorn: Sept. 26, 1930Basketball led NBA players union from 1961-89; increased average yearly salary from $9,400 in 1967 to $600,000 without a strike. Died: May 4, 1989Jim FixxD…

Gregory Corso 2001 Deaths

Gregory CorsoAge: 70 iconoclastic poet and social critic who was a founder of the Beat movement. His poems, including “Elegiac Feelings American,” were often intimate and candid, and his…

Curt Flood

Curt FloodBorn: Jan. 18, 1938Baseball OF played 15 years (1956-69,71) mainly with St. Louis; hit over .300 6 times with 7 Gold Gloves; refused trade to Phillies in 1969; lost challenge to…

Randie Carver Biography

Randie CarverAge: 24 North American Boxing Federation supermiddleweight champion; nicknamed “the Natural”; former Golden Gloves champion; professional record was 23-0-1 going into his final…

Anita Carter Biography

Anita Carter(Ina Anita Carter)Age: 66 musician who began singing professionally at an early age with her parents, sisters, and other relatives as the influential country group, the Carter…

Aleksandr Lebed 2002 Deaths

Aleksandr LebedAge: 52 charismatic governor of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Province and general who in 1991 persuaded Boris Yeltsin to declare himself the military's supreme commander and rally the…

Nick Nolte Biography

Nick NolteactorBorn: 2/8/1941Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska Nominated for an Academy Award in 1991 for his role as a sensitive, wounded hero of Barbra Streisand'sThe Prince of Tides, Nolte typically…