More on Pulitzer Laureate Bob Dylan's Award

Here's some more on Bob Dylan award. Actually some background that makes this award even more impressive- and just as deserved. This is from the Star-Tribune:

The Minnesota native, 66, will be the first living musician to receive this citation since composer William Schuman in 1985. [It] has gone to the likes of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Dr. Seuss.

Pulitzer special citations are not given every year. Only 38 people -- most of them journalists -- have received one since 1917. They have become a sort of lifetime-achievement award for notables who didn't win a Pulitzer in their field.

The first special citation in music was given to composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein for "Oklahoma" in 1944. Other recipients include jazz legends Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, essayist/children's book author E.B. White and science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury.

And Dylan is still working and writing and singing and touring. I am all for it! (For what that's worth to the Pulitzer committee.)