Tag Archives: Pulitzer Prize winner

Wondrous life

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Bookworm

Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will speak on Feb. 15 in the Yawkey Center’s Murray Function at  7 p.m. In addition to the Pulitzer, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao … Continue reading →

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The Warmth of Other Suns

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Bookworm

Isabel Wilkerson, the first black woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first black American to win for individual reporting, is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns, an epic account of the Great Migration. … Continue reading →

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On the Constitution

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Bookworm

Jack Rakove, one of the nation’s most respected scholars of the American Constitution, will discuss “Beyond Belief: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion” on Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in McGuinn Hall, room 121. Rakove, a professor of … Continue reading →

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