And that, in case there was any doubt, is how you know this is one of our most eminent writers: OBE, the second children's laureate, winner of the Carnegie and the Whitbread, author of Madame Doubtfire, Goggle Eyes and Flour Babies to mention just a few of her works that have transferred to big and small screen.
AMONG the many distinctions he has racked up in his 85 years -- hero of Socialist labor, Goethe Prize laureate, winner of the Lenin Prize -- there is one that Lev Kerbel would just as well forget: excepting perhaps Saddam Hussein's sculptor, it is doubtful that any other living artist has seen as many of his or her works wrecked by mobs.
"I don't know of any other conference that brings together politicians, artists, brilliant physicists, Nobel laureate winners and spiritual leaders.
Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
By Rita Dove The New Yorker, December 26 , 1994P. 102 I love the hour before takeoff, View Article Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
By Rita Dove The New Yorker, November 10 , 2003P. 90 Starting up behind them, View Article Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
The former poet laureate Andrew Motion, winner of the Whitbread prize for biography and author of a biography of the poet, has, said Roe, made "assumptions" about Keats and his use of opiates that "simply have no warrant".
By Rita Dove The New Yorker, May 10 , 2004P. 86 late, in aqua and ermine, gardenias View Article Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
By Rita Dove The New Yorker, February 3 , 2003P. 90 We were dancing-it must have View Article Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
By Rita Dove The New Yorker, April 29 , 1996P. 140 Into this paradise of pain she strides View Article Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
We count among our number multiple Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and MacArthur Fellows.
