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NEW YORK, May fr. A novelist, Norman Mailer, who has lately turned his pen from matters of fiction to fact, was today awarded a share of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing. The Trustees of Columbia University, who administer the awards, honoured Mailer for his “Armies Of The Night,” a first-person account of a giant march on the Pentagon by anti-war demonstrators in 1967. Sharing the award with Mailer was Rene Jules Dubos, for his “So Human An Animal.”
The Pulitzer prizes are awarded annually by Columbia’s trustees on recommendation of the advisory award on Pulitzer prizes as part of a bequest endowed by Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher of the now defunct “New York World” and a giant of American journalism. The prize for fiction went to N. Scott Momaday for “Housemaid Of Dawn.” The drama prize was awarded to Howard Sackler for “The Great White Hope,” the story of controversial fdrmer heavy-weight boxer, Jack Johnson.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31982, 8 May 1969, Page 12
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