Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Group

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bg57540
bg57540
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What would you say is the real reason that Anna Deavere Smith's play "Twilight Los Angeles" didn't receive the Pulitzer Prize?

trying to figure out if the play didn't win because of authorship or because it was not fictional...which doesn't make sense because there are other plays that have won the prize and were not necessarily fictional plays.

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Posted by bg57540 on Wednesday April 25, 2007 at 2:03 PM and tagged with twilight: los angeles, 1992.

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  1. janeyb

    eNotes Editor

    I don't know if you can ever say why something didn't win an award, or a prize. To some, the answer would be that the one that lost wasn't as good as the one that won. You also have to take into consideration that judges on the panel and their own tastes and opinions.

    Here are the judges in the Drama section:
    Ben Brantley, chief drama critic, The New York Times (Chair)
    Kimberly W. Benston, Francis B. Gummere Professor of English, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
    Karen D’Souza, drama critic, San Jose Mercury News
    Rohan Preston, theater critic, Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul

    • Paula Vogel, playwright and professor of English, Brown University

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    Posted by janeyb on Wednesday April 25, 2007 at 2:25 PM