Before 1949, how many Americans had received the Nobel Prize for literature?
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1930    Sinclair Lewis \n1936    Eugene Gladstone O'Neill \n1938    Pearl Buck (1892-1973) Pseudonym for Pearl Walsh née Sydenstricker.\n1948    Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)  British/American writer\n\nNote '48 winner (Eliot) was born American, but was naturalized with a British citizenship.  William Faulkner got it in '49.
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According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; yes, it would be 42.  Great book!
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It got to be in the Millions there are many different papers in The U.S.and lots of people get more than one.If UR talking world wide I would say 100 s of millions ..
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Nobel Prize Winners.\n\nhttp://nobelprizes.com/nobel/\n\nhttp://www.britannica.com/nobel/nobelprizes.html\n\nAll Nobel Laureates in Literature\n\nhttp://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/index.html\n\nAll Nobel Laureates in Physics\n\nhttp://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/index.html\n\nNobel Prize in Chemistry Winners 2006-1901\n\nhttp://nobelprizes.com/nobel/chemistry/chemistry.html\n\nWomen Nobel Prize Winners\n\nhttp://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801697.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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There are a couple of facets to an answer to this question.\n\nThe first is hard to explain and if you are interested email me and I will try.\n\nSecondly it is our educational background and emphasis. Next to G-d the most important thing in a typical Jewish family is education. For non-observant Jews education is the most important thing. 85% of College-age Jews are in College. Pick a Ivory league School and check the Jewish Population (Usually about 27% of enrollment) then consider that there are only 5.5 million Jews (About 2% of the population) in the USA.\n\nFYI: 27% of Nobel Prizes won by Americans were won by Jews.
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There were 230,591,913 books published in the United States in 2005, and 49,489,101 albums issued -- increases of 4 percent and 3 percent over 2004,
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FYI..The Scarlet Letter DID NOT with the Pulitzer Prize. The first Pulitizer award for fiction was given out in 1948, long after the Scarlet Letter was published. You must remember that the Scarlet Letter was published around 1850. Most of the book awards we are accustomed to did not exist at this time. It may have won something, but it did not win the pulitzer. Ask a librarian next time.
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Kenneth Hale, (1934?-2001), MIT linguistics professor (over 50 languages)\nRolf Theil Endresen, Norwegian linguistics professor (over 50 languages)\nThe German Francis Sommer, who died in 1978, was fluent in 94 languages.\n\nThe late Pope could only speak 10
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I dont know if u want only the name of the prize winners or the names and the topics they won it for so i only wrote u the names. Tell me if u want more\n\n1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Prussia, afterwards Germany) \n\n1902 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (The Netherlands) and Pieter Zeeman (The Netherlands \n\n1903 Antoine Henri Becquerel (France)\n         Pierre (France) and Marie Curie (Poland/France\n\n1904 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (UK) \n\n1905 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (Germany) \n\n1906 Sir Joseph John Thomson (UK )\n\n1907 Albert Abraham Michelson (Poland/US) \n\n1908 Gabriel Lippmann (Luxembourg) \n\n1909 Guglielmo Marconi (Italy) and Karl Ferdinand Braun (Germany) \n\n1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals (The Netherlands) \n\n1911 Wilhelm Wien (Germany) \n\n1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén (Sweden) \n\n1913 Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes (The Netherlands \n\n1914 Max von Laue (Germany) \n\n1915 Sir William Henry Bragg (England, UK) and William Lawrence Bragg (South Australia, afterwards Australia) \n\n1916  (The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.) \n\n1917 Charles Glover Barkla (England, UK) \n\n1918 Max Planck (Germany) \n\n1919 Johannes Stark (Germany) \n\n1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume (Switzerland/France)
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The link below lists all of the Nobel Prize winners from 1900 to 2005.\n\nThere are three prizes that are offered for "science" - chemistry, physics, and medicine.
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Birthdates which occurred on July 26:\n\n1739 George Clinton NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)\n1796 George Catlin US, author/painter of American Indian scenes\n1799 Isaac Babbitt invented babbitt's metal for bearings\n1805 Constantine Brumidi artist (Myrtle Murdock)\n1829 Auguste Beernaert Belgium (Nobel Peace Prize-1909)\n1856 George Bernard Shaw Dublin Ire, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925)\n1872 George Louis Beer historian (authority on British colonies)\n1874 Serge Koussevitzky Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp)\n1875 Dr Carl Gustav Jung Switzerland, founded analytic psychology\n1876 Ernest Schelling Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball)\n1892 Pearl S Buck US, novelist (The Good Earth)\n1894 Aldous Huxley England, author (Brave New World)\n1899 Danton Walker Mariette Ga, columnist (Broadway Spotlight)\n19-- Robert Colbert Long Beach Ca, actor (Time Tunnel, Young & Restless)\n1902 Gracie Allen SF Calif, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)\n1903 Donald Voorhees Allentown Pa, conductor (Bell Telephone Hour)\n1907 Istvan Pelle Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1932)\n1908 Salvador Allende Gossens Chile's last elected president (1970-73)\n1913 Lou Salica US, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1932)\n1917 Bertil Nordahl Sweden, soccer players (Olympic-gold-1948)\n1917 Richard Burnell England, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1948)\n1920 Bob Waterfield NFL QB (Rams)\n1922 Blake Edwards writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's)\n1922 Jason Robards Jr actor (A Thousand Clowns, Act 1, Any Wednesday)\n1922 Marjorie Lord SF Calif, actress (Kathy-Danny Thomas Show)\n1924 Louis Bellson Rock Falls Ill, orch leader (Pearl Bailey Show)\n1926 Don Carter bowling great (1st PBA president)\n1926 James Best Corydon Ind, actor (Savages, Sounder, Rolling Thunder)\n1928 Stanley Kubrick NYC, director (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita)\n1929 Alexis Weissenberg Sofia Bulgaria, pianist (Levintritt-1948)\n1929 Jean Shepherd humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969)\n1931 Takashi Ono Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)\n1936 Kathryn Hays actress (Kim-As the World Turns)\n1940 Mary Jo Kopechne Ted Kennedy's d(r)iving buddy\n1941 Bobby Hebb Nashville Tn, country singer (Sunny)\n1941 Brenton Wood Shreveport La, rocker (Gimme Little Sign)\n1941 Darlene Love singer/actress (Lethal Weapon)\n1942 Dobie Gray Brookshire Tx, singer (In Crowd)\n1943 Mick Jagger Rolling Stone, never gathers moss\n1944 Kiel Martin Pitts Pa, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues)\n1944 Micki J King springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1972)\n1945 Linda Harrison Berlin Md, actress (Bracken's World, Planet of Apes)\n1946 Helen Mirren [Eleni Mironova], England, actress (Cook Thief Wife)\n1948 Norair Nurikian Bulgari, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)\n1949 Roger Taylor rocker (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody)\n1949 William M Shepherd Oak Ridge Tenn, Capt USN/astronaut (STS-27, 41)\n1950 Susan George London England, actress (Straw Dogs, Mandingo)\n1951 William Surles "Bill" McArthur Jr Laurinburg NC, Lt Col/astronaut\n1952 Ludmila Maslakova USSR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1980)\n1954 Vitas Gerulaitis Brooklyn NY, tennis star (Australia 1987)\n1955 Nicholas Walker Bogota Col, actor (Capitol, Jimmy-General Hospital)\n1956 Dorothy Hamill Ct, ice figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976)\n1961 Andy Connel rocker (Swingout Sister-Swingout)\n1961 Gary Cherone Boston, heavy metal vocalist (Extreme-More Than Words)\n1963 Andrew C Timmons Scottsdale Az, guitarist (Danger Danger-Screw It)\n1965 Jennifer Ashe actress (As the World Turns)\n1973 Mike Burke NY Yankees pres/CEO of Madison Sq Garden
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On January 16, 2001, Theodore Roosevelt became the first President to receive the Medal of Honor, the highest award for Military Service given in the United States.\n\nIt was received by his great grandson Tweed Roosevelt
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Baptist minister and American political activist who was the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement. King won the Nobel Peace Prize [1] before being assassinated in 1968. In 1977, King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by Jimmy Carter. For his promotion of non-violence and racial equality, King is considered a peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world. Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor.
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Hi there,\n\nRita Dove, Poet \n\nBorn: 28 August 1952 \nBirthplace: Akron, Ohio \nBest Known As: U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95 \nRita Dove was the youngest person and the first African-American ever named Poet Laureate of the United States. She held the position from 1993 to 1995. Dove was educated in Ohio, Germany and Iowa and first began teaching in the English department of the University of Arizona in 1981. In 1989 she took a faculty position with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and is currently a professor of English there. She published her first book of poems, The Yellow House on the Corner, in 1980, and in 1987 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Thomas and Beulah. She has won numerous awards, grants, fellowships and honorary degrees, and is one of the most celebrated poets of her generation. Dove has also published a collection of short stories, Fifth Sunday (1985) and a novel, Through the Ivory Gate (1992), and collaborated with composer John Williams on a piece for the 1999 Steven Spielberg documentary The Unfinished Journey. Her other books include Museum (1983), Mother Love (1995) and American Smooth (2004).\n\nGwendolyn Brooks, who is also African-American, held the postion of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress -- the forerunner to the Poet Laureate position. Brooks served from 1985-86 and was the last to hold the position under its old name. Similarly, Robert Lowell was age 30, younger than Dove, when he was named as Consultant in Poetry in 1947.
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He won the Nobel Prize for Literature 1962. The Nobel Prize for literature is based on an author's body of work and not one specific piece of writing. Steinbeck has written:\n\nCup of Gold - 1929 \nThe Pastures of Heaven - 1932 \nThe Red Pony - 1933 \nTo A God Unknown - 1933 \nTortilla Flat - 1935 \nIn Dubious Battle - 1936 \nOf Mice and Men - 1937 \nThe Long Valley - 1938 \nThe Grapes of Wrath - 1939 \nForgotten Village - 1941 \nSea of Cortez - 1941 \nThe Moon Is Down - 1942 \nBombs Away - 1942 \nCannery Row - 1945 \nThe Pearl - 1947 \nThe Wayward Bus - 1947 \nA Russian Journal - 1948 \nBurning Bright - 1950 \nLog from the Sea of Cortez - 1951 \nEast of Eden - 1952 \nSweet Thursday - 1954 \nThe Short Reign of Pippin IV - 1957 \nOnce There Was A War - 1958 \nWinter of Our Discontent - 1961 \nTravels With Charley: In Search of America - 1962 \nAmerica and Americans - 1966 \nJournal of a Novel - 1969 \nViva Zapata - 1975 \nThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - 1976 \nWorking Days: The Journal of The Grapes of Wrath - 1989 \nThe Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath (newspaper articles written in 1936)
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Douglas Adams :  42\nThe 47 Society:  47
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20060131.html\n\n150mil to 250 million. Says the writers of some book.\n\nBetter source than me.