Pulitzer Prize Archives

Eudora Welty: Cultivating Stories in Soil and Ink

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 13, 1909 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of a literary luminary whose words have blossomed like the most exquisite of garden flowers. I speak, of course, of the…

Elizabeth Park’s Poetic Gardener: Remembering Wallace Stevens

“Only the Perishable can be Beautiful” It’s the anniversary of the death of the poet Wallace Stevens who died on this day in 1955 Stevens said, “Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful; which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.” Stevens was one of the most skilled poets…

Nature’s Chronicler: How Grief Transformed Edwin Way Teale’s Work

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 1, 1923 On this day, dear garden friends, the botanist Edwin Way Teale joined hands in matrimony with his beloved Nelly Imogene Donovan, a union that would prove as enduring as the…