The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to twenty-one deserving individuals each year. Joseph Pulitzer was a revered journalist renown for his writing who worked his way up to the top of the ladder to become an ambitious newspaper publisher. In 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his book, The Old Man and the Sea. This seems very appropriate because the style of Hemingway's writing can be compared to the way a journalist must …showed first 75 words of 518 total…

…showed last 75 words of 518 total…a man on the committee with an extreme ideologist view. The reason the man did so, according to a staff member of the Hemingway Resource Center, was because Hemingway sided with communists in his past during a war. "Apparently due to Hemingway's siding with the communist Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War." Sources: The Hemingway Resource Center http://pub76.ezboard.com/fthehemingwayresourcecenterfrm1.showMessage?topicID=247.topic Pulitzer Organization Website http://www.Pulitzer.org/History/history.html