Tag Archives: Pulitzer Prize

Andersonville Offers Wonderful Writing Amidst Horrific Suffering

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

Every so often as we read, we writers run into a sentence that is so spot-on perfect that we say, “Damn, I wish I’d written that.” Such writer-envy is not uncommon, and at its heart, it springs from a deep … Continue reading →

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Underground Railroad Wins Pulitzer in Fiction

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Emerging Civil War

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this afternoon, and while most of the attention goes to the journalism awards, the Pulitzer committee also makes awards in arts & letters. This year’s winner for fiction was Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad. ECW’s … Continue reading →

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Pick #1 on My Top Ten List–The Army of the Potomac, a Three-Volume set by Bruce Catton.

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Meg Groeling

Part of a Series: Books Every Civil War Buff Ought to Own My #1 pick for Civil War books we should all have on our bookshelves is Bruce Catton’s trilogy The Army of the Potomac. This classic, first published in … Continue reading →

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