Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year.
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Ernest Poole
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Ernest Cook Poole was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s.
Poole began his journalistic career writing freelance articles for the muckraking monthly McClure's Magazine.
Margaret Ann Witherbotham Poole, to whom Ernest Poole was married in 1907. The couple raised three children.
Poole credited erudite lawyer and party leader Morris Hillquit with winning him to membership in the Socialist Party.