{"id":1678,"date":"2007-04-17T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/04\/17\/austinite-lawrence-wright-wins-pulitzer-for-nonfiction\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T18:30:12","slug":"austinite-lawrence-wright-wins-pulitzer-for-nonfiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/austinite-lawrence-wright-wins-pulitzer-for-nonfiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Austinite Lawrence Wright Wins Pulitzer for Nonfiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencewright.com\">Lawrence Wright<\/a> won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/2007\/2007.html\">2007 Pulitzer Prize<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/year\/2007\/general-non-fiction\/\">general nonfiction<\/a> with his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/037541486X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechunk-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=037541486X\">The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9\/11<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechunk-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=037541486X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>. Wright apparently also plays in a local blues band called WhoDo. He has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencewright.com\/int-statesman.html\">a copy<\/a> of an Austin-American Statesman article about the book from August 6th, 2006 on his web site.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations also to fellow Texan, Ornette Coleman (born in Ft. Worth), who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/year\/2007\/music\/\">won<\/a> for his recent release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000GFRE76?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechunk-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000GFRE76\">Sound Grammar<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechunk-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000GFRE76\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin author Lawrence Wright won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction with his book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9\/11. Wright apparently also plays in a local blues band called WhoDo. He has a copy of an Austin-American Statesman article about the book from August 6th, 2006 on his web site. <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/austinite-lawrence-wright-wins-pulitzer-for-nonfiction\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-r4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}