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  1. Belying a generational divide, winners Duke Ellington and John Coltrane recorded an album with members of their bands in 1962. After recording JC's "Big Nick", he marveled: "The way [Ellington] plays, he can play anything!”

  2. "Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.” — Robert Caro

  3. Edmund Morris' peripatetic path to the 1980 Biography (for his first volume on Theodore Roosevelt) included stints as a pianist and copywriter. In 2011, he offered a glimpse into the 26th president's life at .

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  4. Visionary cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter received the Nonfiction for 40 years ago. Last summer, examined the book's legacy in artificial intelligence for .

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  5. "I've written some poetry I don't understand myself." An autodidactic polymath known for his impressionistic (and Pulitzer-winning) life of Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was born in 1878. In 1961, he visited fellow Pulitzer winner at the White House.

  6. “When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” -"A Confederacy of Dunces" author John Kennedy Toole, born in 1937

  7. “The American hero must triumph over The forces of darkness.” 1972 Poetry winner James Wright (from “Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959”), born in 1927. (Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer/.)

  8. winner George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" premiered at in 1928. conducted this rendition of the jazz-influenced suite by in 2011.

  9. from 's Clean and Go Green swap: Carlos Baker's Hemingway study, the definitive work on the 1953 Fiction winner until the publication of Michael Reynolds' five-volume opus. 's Baker was also a recurring Fiction juror, ultimately serving six times.

  10. 1932 Drama winner Ira Gershwin was born in 1896. Shortly after he released an acclaimed 1959 memoir-anthology, recorded "They Can't Take That Away from Me," one of many collaborations with brother and fellow Pulitzer winner George.

  11. “There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.” -"Gilead" author & 2005 winner Marilynne Robinson, born in 1943

  12. Looking for ? Two-time winner Joseph Lelyveld on 1983 Bio finalist Richard Norton Smith's 2014 life of Nelson Rockefeller and the unlikely vice president's “unending quest for intellectual silver bullets.”

  13. "Satin Doll" was the last pop hit from winner Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. This stupendous 1966 version was recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra (conducted by ) while opening for at the Sands.

  14. "Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.” -- 1989 Fiction winner Anne Tyler, born in 1941.

  15. “I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.” -1937 Drama winner Moss Hart, born in 1904

  16. "My most persistent impression as a farm boy was of the earth. There was a closeness, almost an immersion, in the sand, loam, and red clay that seemed natural, and constant." -from 's memoir "An Hour Before Daylight," a 2002 finalist

  17. " is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." -two-time winner , born in 1897

  18. from two-time winner William Faulkner: "Don’t be ‘a writer’ but instead be *writing*. Being ‘a writer’ means being stagnant. The act of writing shows movement, activity, life. When you stop moving, you’re dead."

  19. : released an album of songs by winner Duke Ellington in 1999. Here's his version of "Chelsea Bridge" by Ellington and longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn.

  20. ICYMI: winner 's "We choose to go to the Moon" speech was delivered at on Sept. 12, 1962. Although you've doubtless seen the oft-excerpted crescendo, here's the full address via .

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