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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 4, 2019 22:39:46 GMT
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Post by staggerstag on Nov 5, 2019 11:28:30 GMT
Quite. Look at this.
Admittedly, O'Neill's most famous works were produced in the 1930s and 40s (Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night) but couldn't they anticipate an enormous talent back then enough to place it higher than 26th if they had to make a ratings list at all? Loathsome things anyway, ratings lists.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 5, 2019 15:29:00 GMT
Read down a list of the Pulitzer authors of the past 100 years, and realize how many of them were distinguished hacks whose works and literary reputation didn't long exceed their lives. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219 |
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Post by staggerstag on Nov 5, 2019 15:59:03 GMT
Read down a list of the Pulitzer authors of the past 100 years, and realize how many of them were distinguished hacks whose works and literary reputation didn't long exceed their lives. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219Yes, interesting. Looking at that list I'm also glancing at the publishing houses. I see that Scribner's had two authors, Hemingway and Marjorie Rawlings, in the list. I don't know much at all about the other houses but know that Scribner's also had Thomas Wolfe and Scott Fitzgerald among their authors and I'd like to have seen both get the award. They were both kept a good eye on by the house editor Maxwell Perkins who, particularly in Wolfe's case, went above and beyond the call as an editor.  Thomas Wolfe  Maxwell Evarts Perkins Also, I wonder why there was no award given in 1964 and 2012?
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 5, 2019 18:39:13 GMT
I remember a couple of Doris Day musical films that were supposedly based on the Penrod stories.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon and On Moonlight Bay. They're great. Must have seen both about five times.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 6, 2019 1:04:19 GMT
Quite. Look at this. Admittedly, O'Neill's most famous works were produced in the 1930s and 40s (Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night) but couldn't they anticipate an enormous talent back then enough to place it higher than 26th if they had to make a ratings list at all? Loathsome things anyway, ratings lists. Funny O'Neill was so low. He had won the Pulitzer the year before and would win another the year after and then a third not long after that.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 6, 2019 13:06:36 GMT
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