The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-06
T. S. STRIBLING.
PRIZE WINNER
Award Made for Best ~
Novel; Other Literary
Awards Made
BY II. ALLEN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, MAY G.-(CP).-
T.. s. Stribling, = tall, lean son Of
the south, has been award
ed the most coveted prize open to
writer's in the United States when
ne was declared Pulitzer novelist
for 1882.
Award of the $1,000 rrize to
Stribling for his novel, "The
Store" places the Tennessee
writer in a distinguished company,
which includes Booth Harrington,
Edith Wharton. Villa Gather,
Edna Faber, Sinclair Lewis, Louis
Bromfeld. Thornton Wilder and
Julia Peterkin.
Four other literary awards
were announced at a dinner given
in the Hotel Plaza. 1t was the
first time the Pulitzer prize win
ncrs have been named at public
function and the event occasloned
turnout Of literary celebrities
Of dazzling proportions.
The other awards were:
Original American play besH
representing the educational value
and power of the stage" Both
Your Houses" by Maxwell Amber
son.
Best book Of the year on United
States history-"The Significance
Of Sections in American History"
by the late Prof. Frederick l.
Turner.
Best American biography teach
ing patriotic and unseItish services
to the people-"Grover Cleve-
land" by Allan Nevins.
Best volume Of verse by an
American author - "Conqulsta-
| DOR" by Archibald MacLeish.
The Pulitzer novel is the sec
ond volume of a trilOgy, the first
of which was "The Forge" Strlb-
ling is now at work on the third
book. "The Store" was given the
prize "because Of the convincing
and comprehensive picture it pre-
SCENTS Of life in an inland southern
community during the middle SOS
of the last century. ~ ,,
Maxwell Anderson's play, Both
Your Houses" is, like last years
| winner. "Of Thee ] Sing" an eX,
nose of American governmental
institutions. It's barbs are aimed
at the depravity of representative
government. 1t concerns the ef-
forts of a young western repre-
sentative at Washington to com:
bat the raidine Of the national
treasury by the appropriations
committee.
Anderson, the son of clergy
man, was born in Pennsylvania,
He already occupies an importan;
position in the American drama
His elizabeth the Queen" was .
leading success on Broadway and
| in 1927 his "Saturday's Children
was leading contender for the
/ Pulitzer award. He is best remem'
bered as co-author Of "What Price
Glory?"
The late Professor Turner, win
ner of the history award, was q
native of Wisconsin.
Allan Nevins, a native Of ILL
nois, is professor of American
history at Columbia University
and has written several books or
historical and biographical sub
| jects.
Archibald MacLeish, likewise 6
son of Illinois. now lives at Farm
ington, Conn. His poem was cho'
sen for the prize as being "eX'
tremely modern in its technique
| Writers who have received Pu
liter awards in the past who a.
tended last nights dinner includ,
ed Villa Carter. James TrusloW
adams, Pearl S. Buck, Sidney
! Howard. Margaret Aver Barnes
lOwen Davis, Julia Peterkin, Oil
yer La Fargo. Ernest Pools, Ham
| lin Garland. Marc Connolly, Mar
quis James, Charles Edward Rus
sell, Henry F. Pringle, and Bur
| ton J. Hendrick.
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