Pulitzer Winners Will Give '53 Reed Awards

Two Pulitzer Prize winning authors an a poet will judge the 1953 Dana Reed Prize competition, awarded annually for distinguished writing in undergraduate publications.

Bernard DeVoto '18, author of "Across the wide Missouri," won the 1952 National book Award for his "The Course of Empire." He also received the Pulitzer Prize in history. J. P. Marquand '15 got the same award for his book, "The Late George Apply." Laurence McKinney '12, a steel executive, is author of "Lines of Least Resistance" and other light poetry.