Pulitzer Prize exhibition is coming to the Dallas Central Library.
The Pulitzer Prizes announced this morning that the organization, along with the American Library Association, will bring a traveling exhibition delving into the history of the award and the work that has earned it to 20 public libraries across the country, including the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, where it will open on October 24.
The launch for the Dallas opening will include a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver and musician and composer Gabriela Frank (who will also perform), moderated by former UNT professor Ann McCutchan. It will include an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.
The 1,400-square-foot exhibit itself is divided into six sections designed to provide an overview of the history of the prize, highlight prize-winning work, showcase international reporting, and demonstrate the impact the prize-winning work had. It includes interactive stations and panels designed to celebrate prize-winning work as well as “promote the role of journalism, books, drama, and music in a democratic society,” organizers say. It will include photography from war coverage; reporting the Watergate scandal, the Pentagon Papers, and local newspapers; works of literature including Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Toni Morrison, John Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, and Lin-Manuel Miranda; music winners such as Wynton Marsalis, Aretha Franklin, and Bob Dylan; and winning work from local and regional media in Texas.
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