Bar Harbor: Birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize
Hosted by Jesup Memorial Library and the Maine Humanities Council
Join Pulitzer biographer James McGrath Morris and “Pulitzer’s Gold” author and journalist Roy Harris for a moderated discussion in the birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize, Bar Harbor.
In the last years of his life, Joseph Pulitzer spent time at his Bar Harbor estate, Chatwold, where it is believed he came up with the idea for the Prizes. McGrath Morris’ “Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power” is considered the authoritative biography of Pulitzer; and Harris’ “Pulitzer’s Gold” is an in-depth look at the prize and the journalists who have won it over the past 100 years.
Together they will speak about Joseph Pulitzer and the eponymous prize from its Bar Harbor birth to today.