Description

Description: In this typed letter signed, Conrad Aiken provides wonderful insight into the emotional impact of winning the Pulitzer Prize. It states in full: “Dear Perkins: Just a line to say that the Pulitzer people have written to me that the announcement has been indefinitely postponed, for whatever reason, and asking me to treat the news in confidence. So I pass the warning along…..My God, if they should take it away from me!”

Given the context from which we obtained the letter the addressee is Maxwell Perkins, the Scribner’s editor.

Conrad Potter Aiken (1889-1973) did, in fact, win the Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for his “Selected Poems”. He was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952 and also was the recipient of the National Book Award, the Bollinger Prize in Poetry and a host of other awards.

5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″. Item #A01744

Condition: Mailing fold lines, lightly toned, otherwise very good.