N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89Momaday died Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher HarperCollins announced. He had been in failing health.
30 Jan, 2024, 04.06 PM IST
Travel Diaries: 36 Hours on Martha's Vineyard, MassachusettsDespite the stereotypes, the Vineyard's many cultures - African American, Brazilian, Jamaican and islanders that go back dozens of generati...
09 Jul, 2023, 03.15 PM IST
Literary icon Robert Gottlieb, who edited Joseph Heller's 'Catch 22' Bill Clinton's 'My Life', passes away at 92Gottlieb died Wednesday of natural causes at a New York hospital.
15 Jun, 2023, 01.29 PM IST
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Cormac McCarthy passes awayPulitzer Prize-winning writer Cormac McCarthy has died at the age of 89. He is best known for the crime thriller film based on his novel ‘N...
14 Jun, 2023, 02.39 AM IST
Slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui among 4 Indians honoured with Pulitzer PrizeSiddiqui, 38, was on assignment in Afghanistan last year when he died. The award-winning journalist was killed in July last while covering ...
10 May, 2022, 07.55 AM IST
President Joe Biden in the 'loneliest job,' a presidency driven by crisisSurrounded by everything a superpower can offer and watched by all, President Joe Biden wore the weight of a lonely man as he came to grips...
28 Aug, 2021, 07.17 PM IST
Will Statue of Unity have taller order than Statue of Liberty?Vallabhbhai Patel himself was only 11 when the Statue of Liberty was dedicated to the nation after a struggle to get it up and standing.
30 Oct, 2014, 10.56 AM IST
- Paintings by Joaquin Sorolla to be among Sotheby's top November highlights
The paintings, all four taking Valencia beach as their subject, are sublime distillations of Sorolla's singular vision and painterly bravur...
17 Oct, 2013, 05.21 PM IST
- Two Indians win PEN literary awards
The winners and runners-up of the 17 awards, given by the PEN American Center, will be honoured on October 12 in New York City.
16 Aug, 2011, 10.51 AM IST
- Maharashtra to ban controversial book on Gandhi
Maharashtra government will initiate steps to ban sale of a controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Josep...
29 Mar, 2011, 05.24 PM IST
- Outrage over reviews of Joseph Lelyveld’s 'Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India'
Reviews of Pulitzer prize winner Joseph Lelyveld’s ‘‘ Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India’’ hit the newspapers in Englan...
29 Mar, 2011, 12.47 PM IST
- Outrage over reviews of new Gandhi book
When reviews of Pulitzer prize winner Joseph Lelyveld's "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India" hit the newspapers in Engl...
29 Mar, 2011, 05.31 AM IST