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IDA The Miami Herald Tuesday April 14 1981 Fiction winner killed self -before novel was printed 'if' vr --'W ftjssr? 14 C3 From Herald Wire Services NEW YORK A Confederacy of Dunces a comic novel written nearly 20 years ago won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction Monday for its author John Kennedy Toole who killed himself at the age of 32 with no hope of ever seeing his book in print Its eventual publication was credited to the persistence of his mother Thelma Toole who took the manuscript from publisher to publisher following her death in 1969 She was turned down repeatedly until she finally showed it to novelist Walker Percy who liked it so much he persuaded the Louisiana State University Press to publish it last year It was the second posthumous Pulitzer Prize ever given for fiction writing In 1958 James Agee won the first such Pulitzer for A Death in the Family which was published in 1957 two years after his death very proud and overwhelmed at something he so richly deserved but get while he -Mrs Toole said Monday wanted the literary recognition not the Percy wrote in the foreword: I read on And on First Reilly an obese New Orleans man who rebels against the modern lack of a proper and It is a work rich with the dialects of New Orleans Crimes of the Heart won the drama prize for author-actress Beth Henley 28 who had never before written a full-length play The play which ran briefly off-Broadway last year and is due to debut on Broadway next fall deals with the interwoven lives of three eccentric sisters in a small Mississippi town For the first time in 16 years there was no award for music In the field of history volume two of Lawrence A Cremin's sur- -vey of the history of American edu- cation entitled American Educa- tion: the National Experience 1783-1876 was the winner Peter The Great: His Life and World exploring his monumental role in the emergence of modern Russia won the biography award 1 for its author Robert Massie James The Morning of the Poem was the winner in the poetry category The award for a distinguished book of non-fiction went to Carl Schorske for his Fin-de-Siecle Vien- na Politics and Culture ite John Toole: A comic novel a tragic life with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit then with a prickle of interest then a growing excitement and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so Told of the Pulitzer Percy said a combination of a very happy occasion and a very sad occasion To think of Ken getting a Pulitzer Prize and when he died he was thinking it would never get Confederacy is a portrayal of the lunatic adventures of Ignatius United Press International Editor Rich Oppel gets champagne shower at The Charlotte Observer Herald reporter awarded Pulitzer coverage kup at a supermarket Central America with its shifting and often bloody politics changed that Christian said Monday sometimes not more dangerous than driving in She will return to El Salvador in a few weeks The other- finalists for work done during 1980 included: For local reporting the newsroom staff for its coverage of the May riots in Miami For special local reporting reporters Richard Morin Carl Hiaa-sen and Susan Sachs for their investigative series Key West: Island For editorial writing Morris Thompson For feature writing Tropic staff writer Madeleine Blais who won the Pulitzer in that category last year This was the second consecutive year that The Herald had four finalists among the Pulitzer nominations No other newspaper had as many Besides The Charlotte gold medal for public service The Detroit Free Press also a Knight-Ridder paper won the feature photography award for Taro pictures from inside the Southern Michigan state prison Hills the Knight-Ridder editorial chairman and himself a former Pulitzer winner said: three Pulitzer prizes won by Knight-Ridder newspapers the second time our newspapers have won three in one year testifies to our commitment to Jonathan Yardley former book editor of The Herald and now book editor of The Washington Star won the Pulitzer for criticism The commentary award went to Dave Anderson a sports columnist for The New York Times Other journalism winners were Janet Cooke of The Washington Post for feature writing: Larry Price of The Fort Worth (Tex) Star-Telegram for spot news photography and Mike Peters of The Dayton (Ohio) Daily News for editorial cartooning For the first time 46 years no award was given for editorial writing The Pulitzers were endowed by the late Joseph Pulitzer publisher of the old New York World and are awarded annually by Columbia University upon the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize board Network officials said monologues which the comedian helps write are the only part of the using guild writers Leonard Chassman executive director of Writers Guild West praised decision represents a great tribute by one of our top performers to the value of writers in this he said are all hopeful that similar support will come from others thus helping us bring management back to the bargaining table for the purpose of real negotiation" Earlier Monday about 1000 screen and script writers marched outside the main gates of 20th Century-Fox Studios in the first picketing since thfe strike started late last week The guild plans to set up a similar picket line outside NBC studios in Burbank on Wednesday The strike officially began last Friday more than a month after the for Latin PRIZE From I A eluded: For general local news reporting the staff of The Longview (Wash) Daily News a paper with a circulation of just 27500 for coverage of the eruption of Mount St Helens For special local reporting (investigative) Clark Hallas and Robert Lowe of The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson for a series on an athletic scandal at the University of Arizona For national reporting John Crewdson of The New York Times for a series on illegal Mexican aliens In addition to award The Herald was recognized with finalists in four categories including local reporting special local reporting editorial writing and feature writing Christian is a remarkable fearless Herald Executive Editor John McMullan said I am equally proud of a staff that produced finalists in four other Pulitzer Lee Hills editorial chairman of Knight-Ridder Newspapers noted that the publications group had placed 10 finalists in the 12 Pulitzer categories for journalism is a very good he said prizes is not why we do what we do but it is a way of measuring how good we Pulitzer was the fifth awarded to The Herald and its staff Earlier this year Christian also won the George Polk Memorial award for foreign correspondence presented by Long Island University Herald has a deserved repu- tation for its coverage of Latin America and Shirley Christian is part of that fine said Herald Managing Editor Heath Meriwether work is part of the over-all excellence of our Latin American department headed by Don Bohning and including reporters Guy Gugliotta and Bill Christian became the second woman to win the prize for foreign reporting and the first to win it alone In 1951 Marguerite Higgins of The New York Herald Tribune was part of a prize-winning team Born in rural Missouri Christian wanted to be a ballet dancer not a war correspondent During 12 years with The Associated Press she worked in New Orleans New York and Kansas City Before going to Latin America the only crime story Christian ever covered was a Stic- AVAILABLE AT THESE LOCATIONS Carson joins strike action walks off DOUBLE VISION 5321 STATE RD 7 TAMARAC FL DISCOMANIA INC 230 LINCOLN RD 1 MIAMI BCH FL VIDEO EXCH 2 INC 430 DIXIE HWY CORAL GABLES FL VIBRATIONS 14700 BISCAYNE NORTH MIAMI BEACH FL PHILIP MORRIS TRADE 3601 BISCAYNE BLVD MIAMI FL RIO INTL INC 302 LINCOLN RD MIAMI BEACH FL CONTINENTAL VIDEO 80 49TH ST HIALEAH FL VIDEO EXCHANGE 1 43 NE 167 ST NORTH MIAMI BEACH FL VIDEO DISCOVERIES 19329 NW 2ND AVE MIAMI FL VIDEO FANTASY 3066 GRAND AVE COCONUT GROVE FL KENDALL VIDEO 9308 SOUTH DIXIE HWY MIAMI FL PHOTO CENTER (ALL STORES) KAROL IMPORT 530 LINCOLN RD MIAMI BCH FL KING VIDEO STORE 4700 NW 7TH ST MIAMI FL i VIDEO EXPO 5736 DIXIE HWY AND 9810 SW 40 ST SONIA GUILLERMO MOVIELAND VIDEO CTRS 374-2534 RECORDLAND NORTH MIAMI BEACH HOLLYWOOD POMPANO VIDEO XTRON NORTH 2550 OKEECHOBEE RD WEST PALM BEACH FL VIDEO CASSETTE CLUBE 6635 DIXIE HWY MIAMI FL CAPT VIDEO OF FLA 606 LINCOLN RD MIAMI BEACH FL VIDEO 123 2174 NE 123RD ST NORTH MIAMI FL HOLLYWOOD Calif (UPI) Comedian Johnny Carson a member of the Writers Guild walked off the in a strike action Monday and NBC officials said the popular late-night show would suspend production for at least one week The announcement was the first indication that the strike which follows walkouts by movie and television actors and musicians during the past year might gain widespread support from entertainers An NBC spokesman said the Show" would be replaced by reruns Best of until further notice and said the network did not know yet whether Carson might resume live telecasts next week or some other time before the strike is settled is part of the guild and a strike situation" the spokesman said.