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The first post: A Year with Pultizer (Oct. 2007)

A few years ago, I read an article in the Atlanta Journal about a journalist who set out to read all the Pulitzer Prize winning fiction. At that time there were 79. Reading this article made me admire this journalist I had never heard of before for her determination to set her goal and stick to it, no matter how challenging it was. This was her Mount Everest. She read the 79 books in 6 months. It took me a couple of years, but I finally decided I could do it too. Of course, I wasn’t as ambition as this journalist. I knew there was no way I could read all of the books (now 82) in 6 months. I decided to try to do it in a year … My year with Pulitzer. I started in June of 2007. I wanted to read the books in order starting with His Familyby Ernest Poole (1st winner of the award in 1918). But I took for granted that I could simply walk into a bookstore and buy the books. I couldn’t find the first book in any of the stores in my neighborhood. I started to wonder if this was going to be harder than I thought. I found the book on Amazon.com and ordered it. Problem was I had to wait a week to get it, and I was iching to get on my merry reading way. So I decided to go ahead and start the second book, The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919), which I had found at Barnes and Noble for $6. I figured by the time I got the first book that I would be finished with the second book. Not so. I soon discovered that my year with Pulitzer was going to be more difficult than I thought.

About MLH

I live, work, and read in the city of Atlanta. Literature found me early in life and has played an influential role in my development as a person and a woman — starting with the Bernstein Bears to Anne of Green Gables to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of West Georgia and then spent four years as a nonprofit writer. Always one to follow my heart, I went back to school and earned my Master’s degree in Counseling … while working as a freelance writer. When not counseling, I still try to get some freelance gigs and I also like to play with my boys … beagle boys that is! My favorite authors are Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Anne Bronte, and many, many more.