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Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Ira Berkow showed off his Jewish Sports Heritage Association induction crystal.

Celebrating the Jewish athletes in Lawrence

Alphabetically in the Jewish Sports Heritage Association’s induction ceremony program its was Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Ira Berkow leading off the lineup of honorees at the organization’s first in-person event in three years, which also included emcee Barry Sanders and a few of the inductees were live via Zoom or sent video messages. more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/6/22

Lawrence native Arthur Kopit was a renowned playwright whose plays ran on Broadway, garnered Tony Award nominations and were Pulitzer Prize finalists.

Renowned playwright, Lawrence native Arthur Kopit, 83

Before Lawrence native Arthur Kopit became a successful playwright he was a young man who took pleasure in teasing his younger sister, Susan, and her friends and pestering his mother and her friends playing cards. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/16/21

Poet Louise Glück, a Woodmere native and Hewlett High graduate, won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Nobel prizewinner Louise Glück is from Woodmere

Woodmere native and Hewlett High School alumna, class of 1961, Louise Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Famous for her poetry collections, the Yale University writer-in-residence adjunct professor is also a Pulitzer Prize winner for “The Wild Iris” in 1993. more

By Jeff Bessen | 10/11/20

African-American history is more than a month

Moneta Sleet Jr. took one of the most famous photographs in American history, of a black-veiled, grief-stricken Coretta Scott King at the funeral of her slain husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. . . . more

2/25/16

'Half the Sky' aims to end sex trafficking

The book’s front cover looks friendly, uplifting even. The title –– “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” –– is set against an azure sky flecked by wispy white clouds. more

3/21/13

And the Pulitzer Prize in fiction goes to . . .

In a surprise turnabout, the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was Mitt Romney. Or at least he should have been. more

4/26/12

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