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Show Phyllis McGinley U.'s Pulitzer Prize Winner Editor's Note: The following article was written writ-ten in connection with AWS "Women's Week and highlights a well-known female graduate of the University. In the next two days, other women of a national reputation will be discussed on the editorial page. Phyllis McGinley, a graduate of the University Uni-versity in 1926, was the first author of light verse to be honored with the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for 'Time Three: Selected Verse from 3 Decades." WHILE AT THE University, Miss McGin--ley wrote several poems which were published pub-lished in the magazine. She moved back east shortly after graduation to further her career as a writer. Her published works include in-clude eight volumes of verse, several children's chil-dren's books and operettas and numerous magazine articles. When questionsd about her beginnings as a writer, Miss McGinley explained, "I'd always written verse. At the age of six, I went introspective and turned out this little stunner: Sometimes in the evening When the sky is red and pink, I love to lie in a hammock And think and think and think." She reports that this was the beginning of her life-long desire to compose verse, in a horizontal position. MISS McGINLEY describes the present literary age as "the new age of sentimentality." sentimental-ity." She also said 'Today's emphasis on violence and pornography is as false as the Victorian Era's emphasis on sentiment and manners." One of the University's best-known graduates, grad-uates, Miss McGinley has been honored with four honorary doctoral degrees. |