The Pulitzer Prize is considered one of the nation’s highest honors. The award recognizes excellence in newspaper journalism, literature, and music composition. It was named after founder and newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Columbia University has supervised the awards since his death. There are 21 categories. Winners are announced each April. They receive $10,000 and a certificate.
Harper Lee won a Pulitzer for fiction for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Robert Frost won one for poetry. President John F. Kennedy is the only president to win a Pulitzer. He won for his biography of eight U. S. Senators, Profiles in Courage.
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Which is the best summary of this passage?
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Winners are announced each April. John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer for Profiles in Courage. He is the only president to win.
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The Pulitzer Prize is one of the nation's highest awards in journalism, literature, and music. Twenty-one winners receive $10,000 and a certificate each year.
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The Pulitzer Prize was named after newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Winners receive $10,000 and a certificate each year.
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Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Robert Frost won one for poetry. Winners get $10,000 and a certificate every April.

What effect does this excerpt have? the line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing [glow] that grew and grew. at last, over the rim of the waiting earth, the moon lifted with slow majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of *moorings; and once more they began to see surfaces—meadows wide-spread, and quiet gardens, and the river itself from bank to bank, all softly disclosed, all washed clean of mystery and terror, all radiant again as by day, but with a difference that was tremendous. their old haunts greeted them again in other *raiment, as if they had slipped away and put on this pure new apparel and come quietly back, smiling as they shyly waited to see if they would be recognized again under it. fastening their boat to a willow, the friends landed in this silent, silver kingdom, and patiently explored . . then a change began slowly to declare itself. the horizon became clearer, field and tree came more into sight, and somehow with a different look; the mystery began to drop away from them. a bird piped suddenly, and was still; and a light breeze sprang up . . rat . . sat up suddenly and listened with a passionate intentness. mole, who with gentle strokes was just keeping the boat moving while he scanned the banks with care, looked at him with curiosity.

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up

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