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Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which relocates King Lear on an Iowa farm, has been adapted into "an ungainly, undigested assembly of 'women's issues' " (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Critics call its screenplay soap-operatic: The Lear figure (Jason Robards) molests his daughters (Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh), who babble in lengthy pop-psych disquisitions.
The second of three volumes chronicling the civil-rights movement is deemed as magisterial as the Pulitzer Prize-winning first, Parting the Waters (1988).
After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.
"Winning a Pulitzer Prize for a graphic novel is easy when you've written the only graphic novel Seymour Topping [head of the Pulitzer board] probably ever opened," not to mention that because it was a special citation (and not in the cartooning category), he had no direct competition.
Rall says that Spiegelman, after winning a special Pulitzer in 1992 for his graphic novel Maus , became the de facto spokesman for the sprawling world of "underground comix" and gained the kind of mainstream fame and acceptance most cartoonists only dream of.