![]() ![]() It threw me under the bus of a two-day obsessive read. The LA Times said, “It’s also about a writer’s life and, even more generally, a quester’s life, more carefully observed and precisely rendered than any I’ve read in a long time.” The Wall Street Journal called it “gorgeously written and intensely felt… dare I say that we all need Mr Finnegan… as a role model for a life, thrillingly, lived.” It also includes ten thousand dollars in prize money to each category winner. The Pulitzer Prize, of course, is America’s most prestigious award in journalism. ![]() Three years ago, it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. The prize committee praised it as, “A finely crafted memoir of a youthful obsession that has propelled the author through a distinguished writing career.” Pulitzer Prize-winning surf memoir reveals surfers as anti-egalitarian, territorialist, and exclusionary.ĭo you remember the surf memoir called Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by the New Yorker’s Bill Finnegan? ![]()
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