Prize essay collection, 1872-2011.

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Prize essay collection, 1872-2011.

Prize-winning student essays and poems from Cornell University contests in creative writing, poetry, social sciences, and humanities. Includes an essay by Morris Bishop, and one on China by Pearl S. Buck. Competitions include, among others, the Barnes Shakespeare Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Dorothy Sugarman Prize, and the Douglas E. Whitney Prize.

8.4 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7909521

Cornell University Library

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Bishop, Morris, 1893-1973

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American author. From the description of Widening stain [manuscript], 1941. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647804971 Morris Gilbert Bishop was Professor of Romance Literature and University Historian. Class of 1913, M.A. 1914, Ph.D., 1926, Cornell University. From the description of Morris Bishop papers, 1901-1974. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64087054 ...

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....