Sunday, June 03, 2007

June 4

In 1917 on the 4th the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded and three women, Laura Elizabeth Richards (pictured), Maude H. Elliot, and Florence Hall, won a Pulitzer for their biography of Julia Ward Howe. In addition to being Richards’ mother and the subject of the award-winning book, Julia Ward Howe also wrote the words to the popular song The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

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