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4-25-19

The Pulitzer Prize and the Tennessee State Museum

When Townsend, Tennessee novelist Richard Powers won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction earlier this month for his book, The Overstory, it was, as Chapter 16 reminded us in its newsletter , the first time in a decade that a Tennessee-connected writer had won the prestigious award. The last time was in 2009, when Chattanooga native Jon Meacham won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in biography for American Lion , his profile of Andrew Jackson. Chapter 16 also reminded us that... Read More
Posted by Joseph Pagetta at 4-25-19
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3-20-19

80 Years Ago, Tennessee's Famous 'Boy Adventurer' Met His Untimely Death

It was 80 years ago this month, presumably on March 24, 1939, that Brownsville, Tennessee-native Richard Halliburton , the most famous travel and adventure writer of his time, met his untimely death while sailing a Chinese junk across the Pacific Ocean. In this post, originally published as the preface to his book, The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton: A High-Flying Life from Tennessee to Timbuktu   (2014),   writer Scott Williams looks back... Read More
Posted by Joseph Pagetta at 3-20-19
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