What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 – 1848 ( 2007 ), Pulitzer Prize ; a sweeping interpretation of the entire era

In spring 2007, an operatic adaptation of the comic strip was announced to be presented in spring 2009 by the Sarasota Opera, composed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem.

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

The Namesake, adapted by Sooni Taraporevala from the novel by Pulitzer Prize – winner Jhumpa Lahiri, was released in March 2007.

Mark Childress, novelist, and Cynthia Tucker, syndicated columnist and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, were also born in Monroeville.

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New York: Doubleday, 2006. winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for biography.

The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty-three times, including 2007 prizes for its reporting on backdated stock options and the adverse effects of China's booming economy.

In 2007, the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, considered the most prestigious of the newspaper Pulitzers, for its exposure of companies that illegally backdate the stock options they award executives in order to increase their value.

Merwin for his The Carrier of Ladders ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1971 ) and The Shadow of Sirius ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2009 ); Mark Strand for Blizzard of One ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1999 ); Robert Hass for his Time and Materials, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry in 2008 and 2007 respectively ; and Rita Dove for her Thomas and Beulah ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1987 ).

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies ( 1999 ), and went on to write a well-received novel, The Namesake ( 2003 ), which was shortly adapted to film in 2007.

Dominican-American author Junot Díaz, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which tells the story of an overweight Dominican boy growing up as a social outcast in Paterson, New Jersey.

Playwright and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Rabbit Hole.

Hank Klibanoff, received the Pulitzer prize for history in 2007 for the book The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.

* 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road

His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between the IPCC and Al Gore.

In 2007, the Library of Congress named its Prize for Popular Song after him and his brother George.

On March 1, 2007, the Library of Congress announced that Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the first recipient of the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

* 1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

In 2006, Freitas was awarded Lifeboat Foundation's Guardian Award, and he received the 2007 Foresight Prize in Communication from the Foresight Institute.

" In 2009 the Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warned South Africa that inflation targeting should be a secondary concern amid the global financial crisis of 2007 – 2009.

* October 2007: Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies win the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work on embryonic stem cells from mice using gene targeting strategies producing genetically engineered mice ( known as knockout mice ) for gene research.

* Received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for his joint efforts with the IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) ( 2007 ).

* Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U. S. vice president Al Gore, and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team

* State Prize of the Russian Federation ( 2007 )

The IPCC has received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 " for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

** Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2007 )

* April 20 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* November 10 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

** Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* April 14 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* Development of highest resolution global climate models and contributions to the International Panel on Climate Change which, together with former vice president Al Gore, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

* State Prize of the Russian Federation ( 2007 ) – for outstanding achievements in the humanitarian field

In 2007, Smale was awarded the Wolf Prize in mathematics.

The decision was made, however, that the 2007 Prize would consider works staged during an eligibility period of January 1 to December 31, 2006 — thus bringing the schedule for the Drama Prize in line with those of the other prizes.

Winner, 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction ; Nominee ( Nonfiction ), National Book Critics Circle Award 2007.

* Hamm's Beer: Winner of the 2007 Gold Medal for American-Style Lager and the 2010 Gold Medal for American-Style Specialty Lager or Cream Ale or Lager at the Great American Beer Festival

Some of his accomplishments are ; multiple time Champion, multiple medal winner in the Men's Endurance event at ESPN's Great Outdoor Games and multiple Stihl Timbersports Series Finalist ; 2006 Standing Block World Champion ; Winner of 40 Individual World Titles including the All Around World Title at the 2007 Webster County Woodchopping Festival ; Captain of STIHL's United States National Lumberjack Team.

** Lin Dan 林丹 ( 1983 -; Longyan, Fujian ; Hakka pronunciation: Lim Dan ), Individual and Team gold medalist, 2008 Beijing Olympics ; Winner, World Badminton Championships, 2006, 2007, 2009

Winner of the 2007 Whitley Awards ( UK ).

** 2007: Winner – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – " Our Town " – Cars

** 2007: Winner – Music in an Animated Feature Production – Cars

** 2007 Winner: Karman Tandon ( University of Washington ) and Brandon Teng ( SPU ) with Care For Kids

In 2007, she had a role in the season finale of The Winner as Glen Abbot's former, and Josh's current, teacher, with whom Glen has his first sexual experience.

* BloodHorse July 13, 2007 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Winner Funny Cide Retired at Age 7

* Sports Illustrated July 14, 2007 ' An unbelievable trip ' 2003 Derby, Preakness Winner Funny Cide Retired

Winner of the 2007 Harbourfront Festival Prize, he is the author of four books of non-fiction as well as eleven books of poetry.

* Winner of the Classical Brit Award in the category of Best Instrumentalist for ' Horizons ' ( England, 2007 )

* Jane Pauley Named 2007 Winner of Cronkite Award

* The Weakest Link-BBC 1-( 2007 )-Herself ( Finishing as the Winner )

* Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice: The Tour 2007 ( March-May 2007 )-Herself ( Winner of the Tour )

* In 2007, Friendster was selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner.

Winner, 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction ; Nominee ( Nonfiction ), National Books Critics Circle Award 2007.

Also starting the 2008 season, Emperor's Cup Winner was allowed to participate in the upcoming Champions League season, rather than waiting a whole year ( i. e. 2005 Emperor's Cup winner,, participated in the 2007 ACL season, instead of the 2006 season ).

Winner became engaged to Geraldine Lynton-Edwards in 2007.

On 1 January 2007, Winner acquired the bacterial infection, Vibrio vulnificus from an oyster meal in Barbados.

Winner of the 2007 and 2009 Gold Medal " Wheat Beer " at the Canadian Brewing Awards and named " Best Patio Beer " by the National Post in 2006.